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Reducing inequality for shared growth in China strategy and policy options for Guangdong province.

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Can Africa claim the 21st century?

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Climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor cities building resilience for a changing world /

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The changing HIV/AIDS landscape selected papers for the World Bank's agenda for action in Africa, 2007-2011 /

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Urban risk assessments understanding disaster and climate risk in cities /

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Growing green the economic benefits of climate action / by Deichmann, Uwe

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Growing old in an older Brazil implications of population ageing on growth, poverty, public finance, and service delivery /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and overview -- Demographic change and labor market trends in Brazil -- The old-age social protection programs and the aging challenge -- Health and long-term care -- Education and productivity -- Public finance implications of population aging in Brazil : 2005-2050 -- Financing Brazil's aging population : implications for saving and growth.…”
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Opening doors gender equality and development in the Middle East and North Africa /

Table of Contents: “…-- Religion is too simplistic an explanation -- Oil endowments alone cannot explain the paradox either -- Social norms and the legal framework limit women's agency -- Social and cultural norms constrain women's roles outside the home -- Evolving norms and the invisible hand of marriage -- Equality under the law and its enforcement is critical for women's agency -- Legal systems differ widely and derive from multiple sources -- Legal constraints to women's agency in MENA -- Economic incentives dampen participation in the workforce -- A social contract underpinned by a generous but costly welfare state -- Extensive public sector employment with generous compensation -- Generous subsidies encourage women to stay at home -- State regulation and intervention in the market -- Heavy investment in education, but not the kind that businesses want -- Unequal access to entrepreneurship opportunities -- The time for reform is now -- Aspirations are changing -- As education levels increase, female labor force participation will likely increase -- A demographic gift? …”
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