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|  | The World Bank Group A to Z provides ready-reference insight into the history, mission, organization, policies, financial services, and knowledge products of the world's largest anti-poverty institution. |  |
|  | Building and operating successful public institutions is a perennial and long-term challenge for governments. Drawing on research carried out on nine public agencies in Lao PDR, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and Timor Leste, this volume identifies the shared mechanisms underpinning institutional success in fragile states. | | |
|  | This book presents the key findings from a new poverty assessment for Vietnam, led jointly by the World Bank and the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). It takes a fresh look at the lives of poor men, women, and children, and explores the constraints and opportunities they face today in rising out of poverty. | | |
|  | The International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities (IBNET) monitors the technical and financial performance of 4,000 water and sanitation utilities from 135 countries.This second edition of the IBNET Blue Book assesses water sector development from 2006 to 2011, and features water performance indicators for 101 countries. | | |
|  | Urban China is a joint research report by a team from the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China's State Council which was established to address the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in China and to help China forge a new model of urbanization. | | |
|  | This handbook aims to help local government practitioners, particularly staff of medium and large cities, improve strategic management of municipal finances. Based on decades of field work, it combines theory, pragmatic how-to advice, best practices from global experiences, and possible solutions. | | |
|  | This report provides a tool to structure the policy discussion around the goal of shared prosperity and explains that specific policy links associated with the goal can be established only after a thorough analysis of the country-specific context. | | |
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