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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa

    A Labor Market Perspective on What Works, What Does Not, and Why

    by Christophe Lemiere, Christopher Herbst, Negda Jahanshahi, Ellen Smith, Agnes Soucat ...
    Series Book 209 - Africa Human Development Series
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date, however, most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

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  • Reducing Geographical Imbalances of Health Workers in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Labor Market Prospective on What Works What Does Not and Why

    by Lemiere Christophe; Herbst Christopher; Jahanshahi Negda; Smith Ellen; Souca Agnest ...
    The human resources crisis in the health sector has been gathering attention on the global stage. To date however most of this attention has focused on shortages of health human resources (HRH) at the national level. At least as important are problems at the sub-national level. Massive geographic and skill mix imbalances are reflected in the perilous undersupply of HRH in most rural areas. ... Read more

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  • The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia: An Outcome of Health Worker Entry Exit and Performance within the National Health Labor Market

    by Herbst,Christopher; Vledder,Monique; Campbell,Karen; Sjöblom,Mirja; Soucat,Agnes ...
    'The Human Resources for Health Crisis in Zambia' is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank?s ongoing research and to stimulate public discussion.Despite reporting some health gains since the 1990s health outcomes remain poor in Zambia and it will be very challenging to achieve the health-related Millennium Development Goals ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Not Working

    Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?

    by David G. Blanchflower ...
    A candid explanation of how the labor market really works and is central to everything—and why it is not as healthy as we thinkRelying on unemployment numbers is a dangerous way to gauge how the labor market is doing. Because of a false sense of optimism prior to the COVID-19 shock, the working world was more vulnerable than it should have been. Not Working is about how people want full-time work ... Read more

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  • Growth and Productivity in Agriculture and Agribusiness: Evaluative Lessons from World Bank Group Experience

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    The report assesses the World Bank Group?s support for growth and productivity in the agriculture sector. Enhancing agricultural growth and productivity is essential to meeting the worldwide demand for food and to reducing poverty particularly in the poorest developing countries. Between 1998 and 2008 the period covered by this evaluation the World Bank Group (WBG) provided 23.7 billion in ... Read more

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  • Bending the Rules

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  • Strategic Issues in Public-Private Partnerships

    by Geert Dewulf, Anneloes Blanken, Mirjam Bult-Spiering ...
    Managing PPP projects is not a routine job, as every PPP project is different and should be managed accordingly. These projects require considerable capability and skills from both public sector and private sector managers involved, Strategic Issues in Public Private Partnerships, Second Edition, delivers the insight and tools necessary to assist those managers.As Public private partnership (PPP) ... Read more

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  • Changing The Trajectory : Education And Training For Youth In Democratic Republic Of Congo

    by Bashir Sajitha ...
    This study analyzes the current educational attainment and school enrollment status of youth, as well as the formal and informal post-secondary educational and training opportunities available to them. The study uses the results of a simulation model that incorporates enrollment in alternative education programs and considers alternative scenarios for developing the post-primary sector. Each ... Read more

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  • Poverty in the Philippines

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    Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and rising food, fuel, and commodity prices, addressing poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic ... Read more

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  • Revolving Door Lobbying

    Public Service, Private Influence, and the Unequal Representation of Interests

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    In recent decades Washington has seen an alarming rise in the number of “revolving door lobbyists”—politicians and officials cashing in on their government experience to become influence peddlers on K Street. These lobbyists, popular wisdom suggests, sell access to the highest bidder. Revolving Door Lobbying tells a different, more nuanced story. As an insider interviewed in the book observes, ... Read more

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