Social Science : Developing Countries

This book is a completely revised edition of the popular first edition, Politics & Society in the Third World. The author has bought the book in line with th......

A growing number of cities around the world have established systems for monitoring the quality of urban life. Many of those systems combine objective inform......

Even in its heyday European rule of Africa had limits. Whether through complacency or denial, many colonial officials ignored the signs of African dissent. D......

Taking Power analyzes the causes behind some three dozen revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present. It advances a new theory that seeks to ......

In recent years the role of social capital - defined as the institutions and networks of relationships between people, and the associated norms and values - ......

A practical and authoritative guide to conducting focus group discussions in health and social science research, with particular emphasis on using focus grou......

Poverty is a large and growing problem in Africa resulting in an immense amount of avoidable suffering, foreshortened lives, frustrated potentials, and joyle......

The emergence of the global knowledge economy has put a premium on learning. Ideas and know-how as a source of economic growth and development, along with t......

There is about one billion adult illiterates in the world, but teaching them basic literacy often turns out to be harder than expected. Adult literacy progr......

Young people are the basis for the future health and well being of their communities. Recognizing the critical role of young people to the security of susta......

Poverty in Guatemala is part of the World Bank Country Study series. These reports are published with the approval of the subject government to communicate t......

Ten years after the 1994 genocide-in which an estimated 10 percent of the country's population perished-Rwanda's devastated education system is now back on i......

HIV/AIDS in Georgia is part of the World Bank Working Paper series. These papers are published to communicate the results of the Bank's ongoing research and ......

This Sourcebook aims to support efforts by countries to strengthen the role of the education sector in the prevention of HIV/AIDS. It was developed in respon......

Telecommunications Challenges in Developing Countries addresses an important aspect of interconnection-the settings of call termination charges. In rural tel......

The brown agenda or urban environmental issues became an important part of the international policy agenda following the United Nations Conference on Environ......

During fiscal 2003-05, World Bank lending and administrative budgets to fragile states amounted to $4.1 billion and $161 million, respectively. This report a......

Early childhood, from birth through school entry, was largely invisible worldwide as a policy concern for much of the twentieth century. Children, in the eye......

Persuasive evidence demonstrates that gender equality in education is central to economic development. Despite more than two decades of accumulated knowledge......

Developing countries need additional, cross-border capital channeled into their private sectors to generate employment and growth, reduce poverty, and meet t......