This Agenda for Action is a road map for reaffirming the Bank's commitment to combating AIDS in Africa, moving from its initial emergency response to how it will contribute to a long-term, sustainable, multipartner response

Delivering efficacious and inexpensive health interventions leads to dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at modest cost

Water in the Middle East and North Africa region is a source of major social and economic problems stemming from scarcity, variability, unreliable services

Reducing corruption is a key to better services, justice, elections, regulation, and legislation...in short, to better institutions in government

This report for Sierra Leone is part of an ongoing series of country-specific reports being prepared by the World Bank in collaboration with the relevant governments and partner organizations

A strong investment climate is a platform for economic success. By creating opportunities and setting incentives for firms to invest and productively employ inputs, the investment climate is critical to economic growth and prosperity. Analyzing and comparing the investment climate of Brazil, India, and South Africa, three of today's largest emerging economies, this book presents policy makers with the scope of investment climate reforms in these countries. Inter- and intra-country benchmarking can be a starting point for dialogue between the government and private sector on reform priorities and help to encourage the sharing of best practices

The book offers a realistic assessment of experience, trends and perspectives in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector with an emphasis on actual results and justified expectations. It seeks to monitor and analyze trends in the development of ICT in the world, as well as provide empirical evidence of the benefits that ICT provides in terms of economic growth and poverty reduction

The author shares her memories about her father in this loving biography of the man who made history by breaking the color barrier in baseball - and taught his children that the only measure of life is the impact you have on others` lives

In the wake of the financial crises of the late 1990s, there was a surge of interest in the systematic assessment of financial sectors

This book nis part of a broad Century Foundation program examing American foreign policy in the post Cold War era. The Dust of Empire offers a learned and graceful exploration of territory ripe for American domination