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Contributes to the debate on how to accelerate poverty reduction by providing insights from eight countries that have been relatively successful in delivering pro-poor growth: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Tunisia, Uganda, and Vietnam.

The theme of The World Development Report 2007 is youth - young people between the ages of 12 to 24. As this population group seeks identity and independence, they make decisions that affect not only their own well-being, but that of others, and they do this in a rapidly changing demographic and socio-economic environment.

This volume is the fourth in a series of annual reports investigating global regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it. It measures quantitative indicators on business regulations and their enforcement compared across 175 countries - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe - and over time.

This year's edition provides a summary of the World Bank's major initiatives and activities in 2006, regional reports with lending to each region by theme and sector, a description of all new projects approved this year, the complete financial statements of the World Bank, and World Bank organizational information.

This title gives private or public sector executives, managers, and financial analysts without a strong background in accounting the tools they need to participate in discussions and decisions on the appropriateness or application of International Financial Reporting Standards.

Given the immense need for access to all financial services by low-income people, this book provides a practical guide for practitioners, regulators, donors, investors, and academics involved with credit-focused MFIs contemplating becoming licensed as regulated deposit-taking financial intermediaries.

Offers an overview of current thinking on six topics: law and finance, corporate governance, banking, capital markets, capital structure and financing constraints, and the political economy of finance.