2009 Survey on Global Financial Management Leaders sponsored by the International Consortium of Governmental Financial Management (ICGFM). The survey explored the reasons why countries engage in pu...
Photos in this workshop presentation were taken by CRW while working in Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Sri Lanka. If you use the photos, please note their source.
Photos used in this workshop presentation were taken by CRW while working in Botswana, China, India, Kenya, and Malaysia. If you use the photos, please note their source. This PPT was designed to b...
With better health delivery systems, people tend to move away from their conservatism. Also a policy write-up on what are the ingredients to implement a nationwide policy, in a big country like In...
Data visualization, commonly used to make large sets of numerical data more legible, also has enormous potential as a storytelling tool to elicit insights on long-standing social problems. It can h...
This publication provides practical information and strategies for those individuals in Western countries who want or need to plan, prepare, and deliver instructional sessions in developing countri...
Learn about David Riedel's new Emerging Markets Investing Thesis.Emerging markets equities have recovered strongly from their trough in October 2008, benefiting from recent global liquidity and sti...
Free Open Source (FOS) should be one of the least expensive and most effective solutions for technology and knowledge transfer to developing nations. This concept has diffused to several fields suc...
This is the first in a series of short briefing documents for
non-specialists and journalists on different aspects of ICTs and the ‘information
society’.
This document is about ICANN (the Int...
What are students learning? Throughout the world, governments striving to improve educational quality are turning to national assessments to provide this much-needed information in key curriculum a...
Tourism has increasingly become a favored development approach for many developing nations, but how can policy-makers in these countries ensure that its benefits outweigh the related costs? The rel...
This pocket-sized reference on key environmental data for over 200 countries includes key indicators on agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, emission and pollution, and water and sanitation...
This book offers an original perspective on AIDS as a development issue in South Asia, a region with a heterogeneous epidemic and estimated national HIV prevalence rates of up to 0.5 percent. The a...
The eruption of the worldwide financial crisis has radically recast prospects for the world economy. Global Economic Prospects 2009 analyzes the implications of the crisis for low- and middle-incom...
Global Development Finance—the World Bank's annual report on the external financing of developing countries—provides monitoring and analysis of development finance, identifying key emerging trends ...
• Why is productivity higher in cities? • Does urbanization cause growth or does growth cause urbanization? • Do countries achieve rapid growth or high incomes without urbanization? • How can polic...