This Country Assistance Evaluation was prepared in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank. Tunisia has successfully shifted from resource-based exports dominated by oil and gas to manufactures and services. Real GDP growth has been consistently rising and Tunisians today enjoy more than two-and-a-half times the real incomes that their parents had thirty years ago

This book examines some of the major threats posed by climate change to the region's economies, societies, and biodiversity

Sub-Saharan Africa is a critical development priority-it has some of the world's poorest countries and during the past two decades the number of poor in the Region has doubled, to 300 million-more than 40 percent of the Region's population. Africa remains behind on most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and is unlikely to reach them by 2015. With some of the world's poorest countries, Africa is a development priority for the donor community. A major drag on Africa's development is the underperformance of the critical agriculture sector, which has been neglected both by donors and governments over the past two decades

This book provides the Global Monitoring Report 2008. Noting the importance of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), the reduction of extreme poverty, hunger, poverty, maternal health, child mortality, education, high prices for food and energy

This document examines the process by which FIAS advised the investment climate of the World Bank Group to advise the Government of Latvia from 1998 to 2004 on ways to improve the business environment, achieve higher economic growth rates

В книгу включены материалы более 200 археологических объектов северных регионов нашей страны, исследованных авторами в 1970–2011 гг. Атбасарская культура эпохи неолита охарактеризована на основе новейших открытий. Рассматриваются проблемы становления производящей экономики у населения Северного Казахстана, а также роль неолита в формировании энеолитических культур Урало-Иртышского степного пространства

This volume presents a collection of poverty and social impact analyses that assess the impact of a range of policy and institutional reforms

Despite unprecedented growth in recent years, India has the largest number of poor people in the world. Moving Out of Poverty: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India presents the experiences of poor people who have made it out of poverty. The study provides new insights on the processes and mechanisms that result in some poor people escaping poverty, while others remain stuck, and still others fall into poverty.

This book is about the essence of photography, about the editor and photographer"s minds at work seeking the most elusive of all journalistic ends, a fine picture that tells those who see it something about their world. It is an expert"s guide to the art and craft of making great news photos

В учебнике отражено развитие науки криминалистики за последний период, в частности более широкое использование точных наук и кибернетических методов в криминалистической технике, новое направление в формировании тактических приемов в следственной тактике, прогрессивные идеи в методике расследования отдельных видов преступлений, направленные на повышение эффективности расследования