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Africa Development Indicators 2006 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains about 450 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering 53 African countries. Designed to provide all those interested in Africa with a focused and convenient set of data to monitor development programs and aid flows in the region, this is an invaluable reference tool for analysts and policymakers who want a better understanding of the economic and social developments occurring in Africa

This book identifies the binding constraints to growth of Morocco. It applies an innovative procedure known as "growth diagnostic" and has a central finding. The Moroccan economy suffers from a too slow process of structural transformation for achieving higher growth, especially for its exports that face unfavorable external shocks arising from competitor countries in the main markets for Moroccan exports. This process of so-called "productive diversification" requires that Morocco enhance its competitiveness.

Over the next 25 years developing countries will move to center stage in the global economy. Global Economic Prospects 2007 analyzes the opportunities - and stresses - this will create. While rich and poor countries alike stand to benefit, the integration process will make more acute stresses already apparent today - in income inequality, in labor markets, and in the environment. Over the next 25 years, rapid technological progress, burgeoning trade in goods and services, and integration of financial markets create the opportunity for faster long-term growth. However, some regions, notably Afr

Looking for accurate, up-to-date data on development issues? This indispensable statistical reference allows you to consult over 800 indicators for some 150 economies and 14 country groups in more than 80 tables. It provides a current overview of the most recent data available as well as important regional data and income group analysis in six thematic chapters: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links.

Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank's own strategic priorities, and presents lessons about project design and appraisal, poverty focus, private sector participation, environmental and social sustainability, the issue of corruption,and stakeholder communications.

Research in recent years on aid effectiveness shows that significant obstacles in fragile states - insecurity, poor governance and weak implementation capacity - usually prevent aid from achieving the desired results in these environments. This study investigates the attributes and effectiveness of donor-supported programmes and projects that worked well under difficult conditions in fragile states. Presented in this study are nine development initiatives in six less developed countries - Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Timor Leste and Uganda. The cases show that development i

International private capital flows to developing countries reached a record net level of 491 billion in 2005. This surge in private capital flows offers national and international policy makers a major opportunity to bolster development efforts if they can successfully meet three challenges. The first is to ensure that more countries, especially poorer ones, enhance their access to developmentally beneficial international capital through improvements in their macroeconomic performance, investment climate, and use of aid. The second is to avoid sudden capital flow reversals by redressing global imbalances through policies that recognize the growing interdependencies between developed and developing countries' financial and exchange rate relations in the determination of global financial liquidity and asset price movements. And the third is to ensure that development finance, both official and private, is managed judiciously to meet the development goals of recipient countries while promoting greater engagement with global financial markets. These are the themes and concerns of this year's edition of Global Development Finance. Vol I. Anlaysis and Statistical Appendix reviews recent trends in financial flows to developing countries. Vol II. Summary and Country Tables* includes comprehensive data for 138 countries, as well as summary data for regions and income groups.

Doing Business in 2006 is the third in a series of annual reports investigating regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. This edition provides analysis on those regulations that help create jobs and those that deter it. New quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement can be compared across 150 countries - from Albania to Zimbabwe - and over time. Doing Business in 2006 updates the indicators presented in previous reports: on starting a business, hiring and firing workers, getting licenses, getting credit, protecting investors, enforcing

African Development Indicators 2005 provides the most detailed collection of data on Africa available in one volume. It contains more than 500 macroeconomic, sectoral, and social indicators, covering over 50 African countries with data from 1965-2003. The book is grouped into 17 chapters: background data; national accounts; prices and exchange rates; money and banking; external sector; external debt and related flows; government finance; agriculture; power, communications, and transportation;doing business; labor force and employment; aid flows; social indicators; environmental indicators; HIP

Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, Reaching the Rural Poor (2003). One major thrust of the strategy outlines the priorities and the approaches that the public sector, private sector, and civil society can employ to enhance productivity and competitiveness of the agricultural sector in ways that reduce the rural poverty and sustain the natural resource base. These actions involve a rich mixture of science, technology, people, communication, management, learning, research, capacity building, institutional

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Data notes -- Regional tables -- World -- East Asia and the Pacific -- Europe and Central Asia -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- South Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Income group tables -- Low income -- Middle income -- Lower middle income -- Upper middle income -- Low and middle income -- Europe EMU -- High income -- Country tables (in alphabetical order) -- Glossary.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Abstract -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Fiscal Policy Faces Historical and Structural Constraints -- Fiscal Trends and Challenges -- Pro-Poor Expenditure and the Room for Additional Fiscal Space -- Public Expenditure Management (PEM) and Other Institutional Issues -- Conclusions and Policy Recommendations -- A Selection of Key Policy Recommendations -- 1. Fiscal Policy in a Dollarized Economy -- The Ecuadorian Economy: Some Historical Background -- The Role of Fiscal Policy in a Dollarized Framework -- Structural Constraints on Fiscal Policy -- 2. Fiscal Trends and Challenges -- The Volatility of Fiscal Variables -- Fiscal Performance Before and After Dollarization -- The Challenge of Revenue Management -- Fragmented Tax Structure -- Tax Exemptions and the Erosion of the Tax Base -- Earmarking: The Undermining of Budget Flexibility -- Expenditure Trends -- The Fiscal Transparency, Stabilization and Responsbility Law -- Stabilization Funds -- Fine-Tuning Fiscal Rules -- Issues in Debt Sustainability -- Exercise 1. Fiscal Sustainability under a Sudden Drop in the Price of Oil, Surge in Interest Rate, or Capital Outflows -- Exercise 2. Fiscal Sustainability under Tax Revenue Volatility -- Policy Recommendations -- 3. Pro-Poor Expenditures and the Fiscal Space -- Is Social Expenditure Enough for Poverty Reduction? -- Is Social and Basic Infrastructure Expenditure Pro-Poor? -- Main Social Programs -- Subsidies in Basic Infrastructure Services -- How Much Fiscal Space Is Available for a Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Reversing Current Expenditure -- Making an Optimal Selection of Public Investment -- Assessing Defense Spending -- How Much Off-Budget Fiscal Space Can Be Found for a Poverty Reduction Strategy -- Freezing or Reducing Budget Earmarking -- Reducing Tax Expenditure.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Abbreviations -- Overview and Policy Messages: Mobilizing Finance and Managing Vulnerability -- Capital flows to developing countries continued to recover, but at a slower pace -- The world economy is slowing -- Growing global imbalances pose risks for emerging market economies -- The complexity of developing-country debt poses new challenges -- Meeting poor countries' financing needs requires recognition of the countries' special challenges -- Chapter 1 Financial Flows to Developing Countries: Recent Trends and Near-Term Prospects -- Capital flows to developing countries -- Capital flows from the private sector -- Capital flows from the official sector -- Annex: Recent trends in workers' remittances to developing countries -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2 Global Outlook and the Developing Countries -- Global growth -- Global imbalances, currencies, and inflation -- World trade -- Commodity markets -- Risks and policy priorities for the global economy -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Global Imbalances and Emerging Market Economies -- The mixed effect of exchange-rate fluctuations -- Global monetary tightening: higher interest rates -- Potential volatility in emerging-market spreads -- Capital flows and reserve accumulation -- Promoting stability in global capital flows -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 Complex Challenges in Developing-Country Debt -- The change since the 1990s -- External debt trends in emerging markets -- The rise of domestic debt markets -- Balancing external and domestically financed debt -- No room for complacency, despite improvements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Meeting the Financing Needs of Poor Countries -- The external financing environment in poor countries -- Other developing countries as a source of finance for poor countries.

Intro -- Contents -- Data notes -- Regional tables -- World -- East Asia and the Pacific -- Europe and Central Asia -- Latin America and the Caribbean -- Middle East and North Africa -- South Asia -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Income group tables -- Low income -- Middle income -- Lower middle income -- Upper middle income -- Low and middle income -- Europe EMU -- High income -- Country tables (in alphabetical order) -- Glossary.