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Documentation/Library
AARDO
acquires books/reports/periodicals
for its Library from different parts of the world and has a
collection of
more than 7200 titles and
54 regular
periodicals. The index services
of the Library has been fully computerised. Readers can access
computerised database of the Library. Besides, the Library brings out
from time to time information about the new books received in the
Library. Some of the latest books received are as
follow :
NEW
BOOKS/REPORTS IN THE LIBRARY
The Changing Wealth of Nations: Measuring
Sustainable
Development in the New Millennium
The World Bank
Washington, The World Bank, 2011
This book is about development and measuring development progress. While
precise definitions may vary, development is, as heart, a process of
building wealth – the produced, natural, human and institutional capital
which is the source of income and wellbeing. A key finding is that it is
intangible wealth – human and institutional capital – which dominates
the wealth of all countries, rising as a share of the total as countries
climb the development ladder. The accounting of wealth in over 100
countries over the decade from 1995 to 2005 points to the important
progress that has been made in developing countries.
This volume makes a convincing case that, in economic development as in
other human pursuits, you get what you measure. It presents the
first-ever direct estimates of changes in comprehensive national wealth,
which can help identify policies for achieving sustained improvements in
human well-being. Though topical, with coverage of such issues as the
contribution of human capital to China’s explosive economic growth,
greenhouse gas accounting and the role of governance in avoiding a
resource curse, it will become more valuable with time as researchers
explore the landmark data it has painstakingly complied.
How to Engage with the Private Sector
in Public-Private
Partnerships in Emerging Markets
Farquharson, Edward; Torres de Mastle, Clemencia; Yescombe,
E.R. and Encinas,
Javier
Washington, The World Bank, 2011
This book guides the reader through the life of a PPP and
provides a realistic overview of the necessary steps to successfully
engage and manage such a partnership from the early stages. It presents
a framework that highlights the requirements, options and challenges
that governments are likely to face when embarking into PPPs and
explains how to address them so that a sound PPP programme can be
implemented and the benefits for both partners – public and private –
can fully materialize. This book draws on experiences from both mature
and developing PPP markets across the world, case studies illustrate the
key messages throughout and discuss the policies, processes &
institutions needed to select the right projects and then manage
preparation for market and subsequent operation. It also looks at the
role and proper selection of advisers to support the government in the
preparation, bidding and monitoring of PPPs.
Moving Out of Poverty (Vol. 3)
- The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India
Narayan, Deepa (Editor)
Washington, The World Bank, 2009
Growth is good but consistently uneven growth creates unequal worlds.
Average income in the richest states of India is five times the average
in the poorer states, a gap greater than in any other democracy. Growing
economic inequality has many social and political implications. This
study was motivated by three broad concerns. If 30 to 40 percent of the
population of our country is still poor six decades independence, it is
hard to avoid the conclusion that some new approaches must be tried.
Second, there has been no large study that attempts to understand how to
escape poverty from the perspectives of poor people themselves who have
recently managed to exit poverty. Finally, the existing studies are
largely based on the same assumptions that underline existing poverty
reduction strategies.
Moving Out of Poverty, also is not perfect, but we do four things
differently. First, we focus on understanding realities from the bottom
up, learning from individuals and communities about their efforts to
move out of poverty or avoid falling into poverty and about how and why
they sometimes succeed. Second, we focus on understanding the dynamics
of social, political and economic institutions at the local level and
how they facilitate or hinder poor people’s attempts to climb the well
being ladder. Third, we focus on the complex processes that are hidden
beneath net poverty rates: specifically, we disentangle the two distinct
dynamics of upward and downward mobility and fourth, we let people tell
their own stories, including those who have moved out of poverty, those
stuck in poverty, those who have fallen into poverty and those who were
never poor.
Bioenergy Development: Issues and Impacts for
Poverty and
Natural Resource Management
Cushion, Elizabeth; Whiteman, Adrian and Dieterle, Gerhard
Washington, The World Bank, 2010
Bioenergy has been critically important since our ancestors
first used wood to cook their food and stay warm at night. Traditional
forms of Bioenergy, firewood and cow dung patties remain primary fuel
sources for many rural and poor people. More modern sources of Bioenergy
– including ethanol and biodiesel for transport and wood pellets for
heating, among many others – offer great promise but generate great
controversy. This book gives an overview of Bioenergy developments. It
examines the main issues and possible socioeconomic implications of
these developments, as well as their potential impacts on land use and
the environment, especially with respect to forests. The authors present
an introduction to Bioenergy, provide a background and overview of solid
biomass and liquid bio fuels and examine the opportunities and
challenges at the regional and country levels. They also examine
potential impacts for specific types of Bioenergy.
Bioenergy Development does not attempt to be definitive on such subjects
as the impact of Bioenergy on food prices, but it does suggest the
tradeoffs that need to be examined when considering Bioenergy policies.
The authors offer five main findings: i) Solid biomass will continue to
provide a principal source of energy and should not be overlooked; ii)
There will be major land use implications resulting from Bioenergy
developments; iii) It is critical to consider tradeoffs – including
those related to poverty, equity and the environment – when considering
Bioenergy policies; iv) There is considerable potential for an increased
use of forestry and timber waste as a Bioenergy feedstock; and v) The
climate change impacts of Bioenergy development are uncertain and highly
specific to location and feedstock.
Africa’s Water and Sanitation Infrastructure:
Access,
Affordability and Alternatives
Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh and Morella, Elvira
Foster, Vivien and Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia (Series Editors)
Washington, The World Bank, 2011
The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) have called attention
to deficiencies in the quantity and quality of water supply and
sanitation (WSS) globally. Although most of the world is on track to
meet the MDG drinking water target, Africa lags behind. Only 58 percent
of the population enjoys access to safe drinking water. According to
projections, 300 million more people – almost 38 percent of the region’s
population or half the number of people who currently have access to
improved water – will need to be covered to meet the MDG target.
Similarly, more than 2.5 billion people remain without improved
sanitation worldwide; of that total 22 percent, corresponding to more
than half billion people, lives in Africa.
Africa’s Water and Sanitation Infrastructure: Access, Affordability and
Alternatives integrate a wealth of primary and secondary information to
present a quantitative snapshot of the state of the WSS sectors in
Africa. It explains the sectoral institutional structures and utility
performance and articulates the volume and quality of financing
available over time. The authors also evaluate the challenges to the WSS
sectors and explore the factors that govern the expansion of coverage
over time. Finally, the authors estimate spending needs for WSS,
arriving at a funding gap for meeting the MDGs. The proposed directions
for the future draw on lessons learned from best practices and present
the menu of choices available to African countries, bearing in mind that
the challenges differ to a significant extent among countries and
solutions must be tailored to national or regional conditions.
Organization and Performance of Cotton Sectors
in Africa:
Learning from
Reform Experience
Tschirley, David; Poulton, Colin and Labaste, Patrick (Editors)
Washington, The World Bank, 2009
Cotton is a rare economic success story in Sub-Saharan
Africa. While the continent’s share of the world’s agricultural trade
fell by about half from 1980 to 2005, its share of world cotton exports
more than doubled. Cotton is a major source of foreign exchange earnings
in more than 15 countries of the continent and is a crucial source of
income for millions of rural people.
This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of the outcomes of
the reforms that have been implemented in Sub-Saharan cotton sectors and
of the linkages between sector organization and performance. The book
highlights challenges facing cotton sectors in sub-Saharan Africa and
demonstrates how reform in the sectors is the key to sustaining growth,
improving competitiveness and reducing rural poverty. It provides
national and regional policy makers with a number of recommendations
based upon the observable lessons of past reform programmes.
Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized
Facts from Survey Data
Lanjouw, Peter; Murgai, Rinku; May, Ernesto; Zagha,
N. Roberto and
Pigato, Miria
Washington, The World Bank, 2011
The ongoing debate over poverty in India – its extent, trends,
causes and cures – is complex and often controversial. In recent decades
because difficult measurement issues have arisen, a disproportionate
amount of attention has been devoted to assessments of the extent of
poverty and the rate of poverty decline. Much less is known about how
India’s rapid economic expansion has altered the underlying poverty
profile and how this affects the consequent search for its causes and
cures. The report asks how India’s structural transformation – from
rural to urban and from agriculture to nonfarm sectors – is impacting
poverty and social exclusion. Perspectives on Poverty in India will be
of interest to development practitioners, policy makers, researchers and
academics working in poverty reduction and social and urban development
in India.
Economic and Environmental Sustainability of
the Asian Region
Gill, Sucha Singh; Singh, Lakhwinder and Marwah, Reena (Editors)
New Delhi, Routledge, 2010
The ongoing debate on carbon emission-mitigating strategies for reducing
the impact of development on the environment has undermined the
principle of equity and put a question-mark on the sustainability of the
development process of some of the most dynamic Asian economies. This
book focuses on core themes and issues related to the sustainability of
Asia’s economic development in the context of policy initiatives to
alleviate environmental damage.
The articles in this volume contribute to our understanding of the
dynamics of the Asian economic development process under the shadow of
the inequitable global economic order and the international
environmental policy regime, exploring the link between well-being,
economic development and environmental concerns. Based on distinctive
quantitative data and a rigorous analytical framework, the articles
provide rich material for scholars working in the areas of development
economics and environmental concerns.
Six Hundred Thousand Villages: Policies,
Planning
and Praxis of
Rural Development
Jain, A.K.
New Delhi, Discovery Publishing House, 2011
India is an agrarian country with about 70 percent of its
population living in 5,75,936 villages. They are mostly small farmers,
agricultural labourers, artisans, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes.
A large number of rural people are living below the poverty line and
often face the basic problems of survival, viz. Job, poverty, food,
shelter, health, etc.
Since the pre-independence era of Mahatma Gandhi, every government had
committed itself to rural development. The government is pursuing
various programmes for improving the rural infrastructure and
livelihoods. However, there had been a wide gap between the policies and
plans and between the political manifestoes and their implementation.
While there are elaborate policies and programs, at delivery level there
are serious shortcomings. This is largely due to governance bottlenecks,
vested interest, societal oppressions, lack of integrity and lack of
spatial and technological enablement. This book establishes a link
between the rural development, policy and programs in a socio-cultural
context and oppressions matrix.
World Development Indicators 2011
The World Bank
Washington, The World Bank, 2011
World Development Indicators 2011, the 15th edition in its current
format, aims to provide relevant, high quality, internationally
comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s
lives around the globe.
This edition of World Development Indicators focuses on the impact of
the decision to make date freely available under an open license and
with better online tools. To help those who wish to use and reuse the
data in these new ways, the section introductions discuss key issues in
measuring the economic and social phenomena described in the tables and
charts and introduce new sources of data.
Managing Risk in Agriculture: Policy Assessment
and Design
OECD
Paris, OECD Publishing, 2011
The OECD has developed a holistic framework for the analysis of risk
management policies in agriculture and from which two important policy
considerations have emerged. First, policy design must give attention to
the interactions and trade-offs among all risks, strategies and policies
and avoid a narrow focus on single risks or risk management tools; there
is a great deal of evidence of significant interactions and the capacity
of response to risks. Second, there is a growing consensus on the need
for a policy approach with differentiated responses to different types
of risk. Not all risks require the same policy and some may not require
any policy response. Efficient risks are frequent but not too damaging
and are typically managed at the farm or household level. Catastrophic
risks – flooding, drought or disease outbreaks – are infrequent but can
cause great damage for many farmers. The significant uncertainties
associated with such events and the possibility of substantial losses
makes it difficult to find market solutions. Given the high probability
of market failure, government policies are usually needed to cover
catastrophic risks.
This publication aims to contribute to improved policy making in the
area of risk management in agriculture, to provide guidelines for policy
design and to collect the evidence, analysis and experiences from which
they are derived.
Managing Risk and Creating Value with
Microfinance
Goldberg, Mike and Palladini, Eric
Washington, The World Bank, 2010
The papers in the book are the result of a series of meetings financed
by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and
supported by the World Bank’s Global Development Learning Network. The
Bang engaged practitioners in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in
response to a movement in some South American Governments to impose
policies and practices that would, in the long run, reduce the
microfinance institutions’ sustainability. The meetings were designed to
strengthen MFIs by disseminating innovative approaches in the above
eight areas, promoting a South-South Dialogue, encouraging greater ties
between these MFIs and highlighting the bank’s ability to mobilize
international experts and local practitioners.
This book covers risk management topics such as Risk Management Systems,
Good Governance, Interest Rates and Micro Insurance. The Authors also
present information on new product development and efficient delivery
methodologies including housing microfinance, micro-leasing, disaster
preparedness and new technologies.
Knowledge, Technology and Cluster-Based Growth
in Africa
Zeng, Douglas Zhihua (Editor)
Washington, The World Bank, 2008
The World Bank Institute helps develop individual, organizational and
institutional capacity through the exchange of knowledge with those
countries to which the World Bank makes loans or provides expert advice.
The institute designs and delivers courses and seminars, provides policy
advice and helps countries identify the skills needed to achieve their
development goals. WBI works with policy makers, technical experts,
civil servants, business and community leaders and civil society
stakeholders to foster the kinds of analytical, technical and networking
skills that support effective socioeconomic programs and public policy
formulation.
WBIs activities are carried out face to face in classrooms in Washington
and abroad and at a distance through videoconferencing and the internet.
Activities are supported by combinations of printed course materials,
textbooks, instructional video, two way videoconferencing, CD-ROM,
interactive multimedia, facilitated online courses, Web forums, radio,
online communities of practice and e-mails lists.
The Welfare Impact of Rural Electrification:
A Reassessment of
the Costs and Benefits
Independent Evaluation Group
The World Bank
Washington, The World Bank, 2008
This report is part of the Independent Evaluation Group’s impact
evaluation series. These studies fit under the category of “rigorous but
relevant” evaluations, seeking to use a variety of data sources both to
demonstrate impact and to deliver policy-relevant conclusions. This
study is the first of the impact evaluations to combine evidence from a
number of different countries; it uses data from a range of sources,
both existing studies and reanalyses of existing survey data. Although
the report touches on aspects of sector performance, it does not claim
to be a comprehensive sector review.
This report reviews recent methodological advances made in measuring the
benefits of rural electrification and commends them. It also notes that
the understanding of the techniques shown in project documents is
sometimes weak and quality control for the economic analysis in project
documents lacking. It shows that willingness to pay for electricity is
high, exceeding the long run marginal cost of supply.
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