Reforming Infrastructure

Reforming Infrastructure
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : NWU:35556035569946
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Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Reforming Infrastructure by : Ioannis Nicolaos Kessides

Electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, railways, and water supply, are often vertically and horizontally integrated state monopolies. This results in weak services, especially in developing and transition economies, and for poor people. Common problems include low productivity, high costs, bad quality, insufficient revenue, and investment shortfalls. Many countries over the past two decades have restructured, privatized and regulated their infrastructure. This report identifies the challenges involved in this massive policy redirection. It also assesses the outcomes of these changes, as well as their distributional consequences for poor households and other disadvantaged groups. It recommends directions for future reforms and research to improve infrastructure performance, identifying pricing policies that strike a balance between economic efficiency and social equity, suggesting rules governing access to bottleneck infrastructure facilities, and proposing ways to increase poor people's access to these crucial services.

Transforming Cities with Transit

Transforming Cities with Transit
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9780821397503
ISBN-13 : 0821397508
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Synopsis Transforming Cities with Transit by : Hiroaki Suzuki

'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration and provides policy recommendations and implementation strategies for effective integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.

Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization

Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization
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Publisher : Anthem Press
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 9781783086757
ISBN-13 : 1783086750
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Emerging Market Economies and Financial Globalization by : Leonardo E. Stanley

In the past, foreign shocks arrived to national economies mainly through trade channels, and transmissions of such shocks took time to come into effect. However, after capital globalization, shocks spread to markets almost immediately. Despite the increasing macroeconomic dangers that the situation generated at emerging markets in the South, nobody at the North was ready to acknowledge the pro-cyclicality of the financial system and the inner weakness of “decontrolled” financial innovations because they were enjoying from the “great moderation.” Monetary policy was primarily centered on price stability objectives, without considering the mounting credit and asset price booms being generated by market liquidity and the problems generated by this glut. Mainstream economists, in turn, were not majorly attracted in integrating financial factors in their models. External pressures on emerging market economies (EMEs) were not eliminated after 2008, but even increased as international capital flows augmented in relevance thereafter. Initially economic authorities accurately responded to the challenge, but unconventional monetary policies in the US began to create important spillovers in EMEs. Furthermore, in contrast to a previous surge in liquidity, funds were now transmitted to EMEs throughout the bond market. The perspective of an increase in US interest rates by the FED is generating a reversal of expectations and a sudden flight to quality. Emerging countries’ currencies began to experience higher volatility levels, and depreciation movements against a newly strong US dollar are also increasingly observed. Consequently, there are increasing doubts that the “unexpected” favorable outcome observed in most EMEs at the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) would remain.

Revoked

Revoked
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Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1181919036
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Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis Revoked by : Allison Frankel

"[The report] finds that supervision -– probation and parole -– drives high numbers of people, disproportionately those who are Black and brown, right back to jail or prison, while in large part failing to help them get needed services and resources. In states examined in the report, people are often incarcerated for violating the rules of their supervision or for low-level crimes, and receive disproportionate punishment following proceedings that fail to adequately protect their fair trial rights."--Publisher website.

Global Financial Development Report 2013

Global Financial Development Report 2013
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 9780821395042
ISBN-13 : 0821395041
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Global Financial Development Report 2013 by : World Bank

This new annual publication from the World Bank Group provides an overview and assessment of financial sector development around the world, with particular attention on medium- and low-income countries.

Reaching the Rural Poor

Reaching the Rural Poor
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
Total Pages : 216
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ISBN-10 : 0821354590
ISBN-13 : 9780821354599
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Reaching the Rural Poor by :

Despite the fact that three quarters of the world's poor live in rural areas, the level of international development aid directed at rural areas has continued to decline over the last decade, particularly in terms of the agricultural sector. In 2001, lending for agricultural projects was the lowest in the World Bank's history. This publication presents the World Bank's new rural development strategy based upon a results oriented approach which stresses practice, implementation, monitoring and empowerment aspects. The strategy seeks to highlight rural development efforts, focusing on the needs of the rural poor, fostering a broad-based economic growth and addressing the impact of global developments on client countries.

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Fighting The North Vietnamese, 1967

U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Fighting The North Vietnamese, 1967
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Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Total Pages : 827
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ISBN-10 : 9781787200845
ISBN-13 : 1787200841
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis U.S. Marines In Vietnam: Fighting The North Vietnamese, 1967 by : Maj. Gary L. Telfer

This is the fourth volume in an operational and chronological series covering the U.S. Marine Corps’ participation in the Vietnam War. This volume details the change in focus of the III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF), which fought in South Vietnam’s northernmost corps area, I Corps. This volume, like its predecessors, concentrates on the ground war in I Corps and III MAF’s perspective of the Vietnam War as an entity. It also covers the Marine Corps participation in the advisory effort, the operations of the two Special Landing Forces of the U.S. Navy’s Seventh Fleet, and the services of Marines with the staff of the U.S. Military Assistance Command, Vietnam. There are additional chapters on supporting arms and logistics, and a discussion of the Marine role in Vietnam in relation to the overall American effort.