One of its most important functions is to foster a community of economists interested in Sub-Saharan Africa, within the World Bank and in the continent.
The Office of Chief Economist in the Africa Region (AFRCE) seeks to bring the best possible knowledge to bear on policy and institutional reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa. It produces and oversees the production of research articles and reports on the most pressing development issues facing the continent. It also guides the production and implementation of the World Bank’s strategy of assistance for the Africa Region.
Africa’s Pulse: The Office of Chief Economist in the Africa Region monitors the development outlook of the region and produces a bi-annual publication with analysis on the short term economic prospects for the continent and current development challenges. More
Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA): The ABCA conference is the World Bank’s premier platform for scholars from all over the world to gather and discuss ways to promote economic growth and reduce poverty for people across Sub-Saharan Africa. It is held each year with a different academic partner and thematic focus. At each edition, research papers selected by a panel from hundreds of submissions are presented for discussion during a two-day event that includes keynote presentations, roundtables, and seminars. More
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA): This index measures and tracks the strength of policies and institutions in IDA-eligible countries since 1980. The information contained in the CPIA is valuable to governments, the private sector, civil society, researchers and the media as a tool to monitor their country’s progress and benchmark it against progress in other countries. More
Impact Evaluation: The Africa Region of the World Bank has well over one hundred active impact evaluations, spanning the sectors, from health, education, social protection, and gender, to agriculture, infrastructure, and public sector reform. They include evaluations of World Bank projects but also evaluations of other government and non-governments organization programs that have relevance to eliminating extreme poverty and increasing the quality of life for women and men across the African continent. More
Agriculture in Africa – Telling Facts from Myths: Governments, donors, and the private sector are investing billions of dollars in Africa’s agriculture. A thorough bottom-up update is needed to guide these investments, establish baselines, and ground the agricultural policy dialogues. This initiative addresses this void, using the Living Standards Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA). The surveys are conducted in 6 countries, representing 40 percent of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The Africa Regional Studies Program is the World Bank’s main vehicle to produce and disseminate high quality research and analysis on development challenges facing the entire Sub-Saharan continent or a sub-set of countries in the region. The focus of the Africa Regional Studies varies every year, reflecting current policy questions in Sub-Saharan African countries. It has covered such issues as youth employment, conflict, vulnerability and risk, and structural transformation, among others.
This study looks explicitly into how climate change will affect both existing and planned infrastructure in the energy, transboundary water, and roads sectors, and provides specific information on strengthening the resilience of infrastructure that will be built in the future.
This report recommends policy actions needed at the various phases of Africa’s demographic transition and uses global and regional experiences to provide evidence on what has worked and what has not. Countries have a menu of options available to speed up the transition, improve investment in the resulting youth cohort, expand labor markets, and encourage savings.
This report examines obstacles faced by households and firms in meeting the youth employment challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa. It focuses primarily on productivity, in agriculture, in nonfarm household enterprises, and in the modern wage sector, because productivity is the key to higher earnings as well as to more stable, less vulnerable, livelihoods
This report provides estimates of the effects of lower transport costs on economic activity in rural areas, improves the empirical understanding of the pathways through which transport infrastructure alters economic outcomes, evaluates options for actual investments, and identifies areas where transport infrastructure would generate the highest benefits.
This report closely examines the statistics on poverty in African countries by reviewing the data used to produce national poverty estimates, taking a critical look at their availability, quality and comparability; assessing the broad facts about poverty; and exploring various dimensions of inequality in the Region.
This study evaluates the effectiveness of agriculture public spending in Africa with an attempt to provide guidance and pragmatic policy advice to governments on the cost effectiveness of various programs and investments needed to enhance productivity of African agriculture for ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity on the continent.
The speed at which society is changing in Africa is putting a strain on institutions, and pushing them to transform rapidly. It also risks rendering them illegitimate and ineffective. This study examines the external stresses as well as the dynamics that affect institutions, in an attempt to understand the drivers of fragility and the factors of resilience.
These two-page Macroeconomic and Poverty Outlooks are jointly produced by the Poverty and Macroeconomics & Fiscal Management Global Practices of the World Bank.
Each country note contains (click on country-name for pdf): an overview of recent macroeconomic and poverty developments; the outlook, including forecasts for major macroeconomic variables in 2016-18; and a brief discussion of critical challenges for economic growth, macro stability, and poverty reduction moving forward.
Political undercurrents in Soviet economic debates: from Bukharin to the modern reformers by Moshe Lewin( Book )
Nikolai I. Bukharin; a bibliography, with annotations, including the locations of his works in major American and European libraries by Sidney Heitman( Book )
Paradigm lost : a cultural and systems theoretical critique of political economy by Kenneth M Stokes( Book )
Politics, murder, and love in Stalin's Kremlin : the story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina by Paul R Gregory( Book )
The prison poems of Nikolaĭ Bukharin : transformation of the world (verse about the ages, and about people) by Nikolaĭ Bukharin( Book )
20 editions published between 1979 and 2015 in English and held by 1,207 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has recently been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin's work has wide appeal to those interested in Soviet history and Marxist economics as well as to those concerned with theories of development and socialist economies
The ABC of communism; a popular explanation of the program of the Communist Party of Russia by Nikolaĭ Bukharin( Book )
64 editions published between 1919 and 1988 in English and held by 1,205 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
65 editions published between 1915 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 1,075 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published between 1998 and 2003 in English and held by 1,051 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
While in prison, Bukharin wrote four books, of which this unfinished novel was the last. It traces the development of Nikolai "Kolya" Petrov (closely modeled on Nikolai "Kolya" Bukharin) from his early childhood to age fifteen. In lyrical and poetic terms, it paints a picture of Nikolai's growing political consciousness and ends with his activism on the eve of the failed 1905 revolution. The novel is presented here along with the only surviving letter from Bukharin to his wife during his time in prison, an epistle filled with fear, longing, and hope for his family and his nation
69 editions published between 1915 and 2010 in English and held by 954 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
65 editions published between 1927 and 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 953 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
38 editions published between 1935 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 531 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
First published in English in 1935, this is a critical appraisal of contemporary thought in the post-World War One era in the light of Marxism
116 editions published between 1918 and 2010 in 6 languages and held by 425 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
30 editions published between 1938 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
11 editions published between 1982 and 1984 in English and held by 312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Science at the cross roads; papers presented to the International Congress of the History of Science and Technology, held in London from June 29th to July 3rd, 1931 by Nikolaĭ Bukharin( Book )
13 editions published between 1931 and 2013 in English and held by 256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 253 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Bukharin wrote his Philosophical Arabesques in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, facing trial on charges of treason and execution after he was found guilty. After the death of Lenin, Bukharin co-operated with Stalin for a time. Once Stalin's supremacy was assured he began eliminating all potential rivals. For Bukharin, the process was to end with his confession before the Soviet court, facing the threat that his young family would be killed along with him if he did not." "While awaiting his death, Bukharin wrote prolifically. He considered Philosophical Arabesques as the most important of his prison writings. In its pages, he covers the full range of issues in Marxist philosophy - the sources of knowledge, the nature of truth, freedom and necessity, the relationship of Hegelian and Marxist dialectic. The project constitutes a defense of the genuine legacy of Lenin's Marxism against the use of his memory to legitimate totalitarian power." "Consigned to the Kremlin archives for a half-century after Bukharin's execution, this work is now being published for the first time in English. It will be an essential reference work for scholars of Marxism and the Russian revolution and a landmark in the history of prison writing."--BOOK JACKET
25 editions published between 1988 and 1990 in Russian and Undetermined and held by 251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published between 1971 and 1978 in English and held by 240 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
40 editions published between 1920 and 1992 in 4 languages and held by 193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
41 editions published between 1900 and 2008 in French and held by 181 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Mandy and James are staying with her parents at a vacation house in the Lake District when they spot a mischievous Labrador on the lawn. James's dog, Blackie, is thrilled to have found a friend, but with no identification or collar, how will Mandy and James find her owner? And why does she seem so at home here?
12 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
35 editions published between 1928 and 1977 in French and held by 156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
34 editions published between 1925 and 1966 in German and Undetermined and held by 145 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published between 1921 and 2006 in English and held by 144 WorldCat member libraries worldwide