Author : Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821338520
World Bank Technical Paper No. 349. The Bank's approach to water resources development has shifted from one of construction activities to one of improved management quality, creating a new generation of water-related projects and the need for new evaluation procedures. This paper addresses the methodology for economic evaluation of this new group of projects and draws on the experience of the recently approved Mexico Water Resources Management project.
Author : Asli Demirguc-Kunt
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464812683
In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.
Author : Bertrand Badré
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,66 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1523094222
"The world is changing, but innovative answers can be found in tradition. Badre offers comprehensive outlines as to how finance is the key to ensuring a sustainable future, ripe with growth, eradication of poverty and modernization"--
Author : Katharine Hayhoe
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 1982143851
United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible—and how it can be realized” (The New York Times). Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it—and she wants to teach you how. In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field—recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change.
Author : Julia Alvarez
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1616201029
Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of developing countries and wants her help on an extended AIDS assignment in the Dominican Republic. But Alma begs off joining him: the publisher is breathing down her neck. She promises to work hard and follow him a bit later. The truth is that Alma is seriously sidetracked by a story she has stumbled across. It's the story of a much earlier medical do-gooder, Spaniard Francisco Xavier Balmis, who in 1803 undertook to vaccinate the populations of Spain's American colonies against smallpox. To do this, he required live "carriers" of the vaccine. Of greater interest to Alma is Isabel Sendales y Gómez, director of La Casa de Expósitos, who was asked to select twenty-two orphan boys to be the vaccine carriers. She agreed— with the stipulation that she would accompany the boys on the proposed two-year voyage. Her strength and courage inspire Alma, who finds herself becoming obsessed with the details of Isabel's adventures. This resplendent novel-within-a-novel spins the disparate tales of two remarkable women, both of whom are swept along by machismo. In depicting their confrontation of the great scourges of their respective eras, Alvarez exposes the conflict between altruism and ambition.
Author : Norman Loayza
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN :
Saving rates vary considerably across countries and over time. Policies that spur development are an indirect but effective way to raise private saving rates - which rise with the level and growth rate of real per capita income.Loayza, Schmidt-Hebbel, and Serveacute;n investigate the policy and nonpolicy factors behind saving disparities, using a large panel data set and an encompassing approach including several relevant determinants of private saving. They extend the literature in several dimensions by:middot; Using the largest data set on aggregate saving assembled to date.middot; Using panel instrumental variable techniques to correct for endogeneity and heterogeneity.middot; Performing robustness checks on changes in estimation procedures, data samples, and model specification.Their main empirical findings:middot; Private saving rates show considerable inertia (are highly serially correlated even after controlling for other relevant factors).middot; Private saving rates rise with the level and growth rate of real per capita income. So policies that spur development are an indirect but effective way to raise private saving rates.middot; Predictions of the life-cycle hypothesis are supported in that dependency ratios generally have a negative effect on private saving rates.middot; The precautionary motive for saving is supported by the finding that inflation - conventionally taken as a summary measure of macroeconomic volatility - has a positive impact on private saving, holding other facts constant.middot; Fiscal policy is a moderately effective tool for raising national saving.middot; The direct effects of financial liberalization are largely detrimental to private saving rates. Greater availability of credit reduces the private saving rate; financial depth and higher real interest rates do not increase saving.This paper - a product of Macroeconomics and Growth, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the determinants of saving in developing countries. The study was funded by the Bank`s Research Support Budget under the research project Saving in the World: Puzzles and Policies (RPO 681-36). The authors may be contacted at [email protected] or [email protected].
Author : Agnieszka Sobocinska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1108478131
An innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable, even as critics in aid-recipient nations suggested it was a form of neocolonialism. It will benefit scholars and students of history, development studies and international relations.
Author : Norman Loayza
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Ahorro
ISBN :
Saving rates vary considerably across countries and over time. Policies that spur development are an indirect but effective way to raise private saving rates, which rise with the level and growth rate of real per capita income.
Author : Stanley Fish
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0199892970
"Save the World on Your Own Time is invariably smart, stimulating, and provocative. It is filled with insights and crackles with verve. It is a joy to take in." - Texas Law Review
Author : Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0374313067
A timely and inspiring nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today are rising to action. Inspired by Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth: A Recent History, the acclaimed book that grew out of an August 2018 issue of the New York Times Magazine solely dedicated to it, Saving Earth tells the human story of the climate change conversation from the recent past into the present day. It wrestles with the long shadow of our failures, what might be ahead for today’s generation, and crucial questions of how we understand the world we live in—and how we can work together to change the outlook for the better. Written by acclaimed author Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich and enlivened with illustrations from Tim Foley, and filled with the voices of climate activists from the past and present, this book is both a call to action and a riveting dramatic history. A Junior Library Guild Selection
