Students assume the roles of colonists, patriots, and loyalists as they participate in a weeklong simulation that takes them through the events that led to and ended the American Revolution

The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic is an unprecedented attempt to collect comprehensive data on the infrastructure sectors in Africa-covering power, transport, irrigation, water and sanitation, and information and communication technology-and to provide an integrated analysis of the challenges they face.

This remarkable economic turnaround is the result of increasing macroeconomic stability, of reforms that have whittled away market imperfections and reduced trade barriers, and most consequentially, of rapidly increasing global demand for the natural resource-based commodities exported by Sub-Saharan countries

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The analysis of the distributional impact of policy reforms on the well-being and welfare of various stakeholder groups, particularly the poor and vulnerable, has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing countries

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This book presents an overview of what adaptation to climate change might mean for the countries of ECA. It starts with a discussion of emerging best-practice adaptation planning around the world and a review of the latest climate projections

This introduction presents the mathematical theory of probability for readers in the fields of engineering and the sciences who possess knowledge of elementary calculus. Presents new examples and exercises throughout. Offers a new section that presents an elegant way of computing the moments of random variables defined as the number of events that occur. Gives applications to binomial, hypergeometric, and negative hypergeometric random variables, as well as random variables resulting from coupon collecting and match models. Provides additional results on inclusion-exclusion identity, Poisson paradigm, multinomial distribution, and bivariate normal distribution A useful reference for engineering and science professionals

In At the Frontlines of Development: Reflections from the World Bank, former World Bank country directors recount their experiences, both as managers of the World Bank's portfolio in global economic hotspots

The 12 case studies in this report examine successful examples of poverty reduction in Africa