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Alan D Lopez

Disease Control Priorities Project

Strategic health planning, the cornerstone of initiatives designed to achieve health improvement goals around the world, requires an understanding of the comparative burden of diseases and injuries, their corresponding risk factors and the likely effects of invervention options. The Global Burden of Disease framework, originally published in 1990, has been widely adopted as the preferred method for health accounting and has become the standard to guide the setting of health research priorities. This publication sets out an updated assessment of the situation, with an analysis of trends observed since 1990 and a chapter on the sensitivity of GBD estimates to various sources of uncertainty in methods and data.

Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors

Enhancing Growth and Development

India Livestock Sector Review

This publication contains the annual review for fiscal 1996 (July 1995-June 1996) and a 10-year accounting of the project portfolio in a project matrix (Appendix). The annual review portion of the publication is divided into four sections:an overview, a series of regional review, a set of reviews on a spectrum of environmental and social issues, and a brief scan of relevant publications. The environmental and social issues discussed include:biodiversity conservation; fostering global warming solutions through energy efficiency, demand side management and renewable technologies; linking physical environmental effects to economic impacts; legal aspects of environmental management; building strategic alliance to avoid duplicating efforts in environmental work; Bank's work on pollution management and technology policy; engaging private sector into environmental investments; enhancing participatory approaches in decisionmaking; and freshwater, coastal and marine resource management. In addition, a new column called Reflection sets the context for the Bank's work in the larger global agenda drawn up in Rio's Agenda 21 in 1992.

Environment Matters and the World Bank

The World Bank and the Environment

Asian Development Bank

Kokusai Kyōryoku Ginkō

Japan Bank for International Cooperation

Co-produced by the Asian Development Bank, the Japan Bank for International Co-operation and the World Bank, this publication examines the challenges of infrastructure development facing the countries of East Asia, driven by their rapid economic growth and urbanisation. The report is organised around three main themes: inclusive development; co-ordination of infrastructure levels; accountability and risk management; and includes includes case studies of regional good practice.

A New Framework for Infrastructure

Connecting East Asia

This book examines the options for, and obstacles to, successful financial sector tax reform, both in terms of theoretical and practical aspects. Issues discussed include: the design of optimal tax schemes, the role of imperfect information and the links between taxation and saving, inflation, the income tax treatment of intermediary loan-loss reserves, deposit insurance, VAT and financial transactions taxes; as well as current practice in the industrial world and case studies of distorted national systems. This is a co-publication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press.

Theory and Practice for Emerging Economies

Taxation of Financial Intermediation

World Development Indictors 2003 contains reliable quantitative data which is essential for understanding economic and social development because it provides evidenceA?evidence to set policies, monitor progress, and evaluate results. World Development Indicators allows users to monitor progress toward the Millennium Development Goals. These goals, agreed to by all member states of the United Nations, establish specific, measurable targets for development in the early 21st century. World Development Indicators 2003 CD-ROM contains over 550 time-series indicators for 208 countries and 18 country groups, covering 1960 to 2001, and offers mapping, charting and data export formats. The Tables function presents more than 5 sets of country tables, covering specialized topics such as social indicators, economic indicators, education, and population projections. In addition, it provides the full contents of the WDI print edition, and some quick reference tables on GNI per capita, country classification among others.

World Development Indicators 2003

Quentin Wodon

Kristin Komives

Vivien Foster

Jonathan Halpern

This book reviews the prevalence and variants of consumer subsidies found in the developing world and the effectiveness of these subsidies for the poor. It places consumer subsidies in a broader social protection framework and compares them with poverty-focused programmes in other sectors using a common metric. It concludes that the most common subsidy instruments perform poorly in comparison with most other transfer mechanisms. Alternative consumption and connection subsidy mechanisms show more promise, especially when combined with complementary non-price approaches to making utility services accessible and affordable to poor households. The many factors contributing to those outcomes are dissected, identifying those that can be controlled and used to improve performance.

Who Benefits from Utility Subsidies?

Water, Electricity, and the Poor

Klaus W. Deininger

This volume synthesizes insights from the vast literature on land policy. It evaluates the implications of these insights for development policy, taking due account of actual experiences in policy implementation, and suggests ways to design land policies that promote growth as well as poverty reduction.

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