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Investment Framework for Nutrition 2024
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Paperback This report provides an update to the Investment Framework for Nutrition, broadening its focus to include low birthweight and obesity, while incorporating policy considerations, operational guidance for country-level implementation, and gender and climate change perspectives.
Strategic Investment for Health System Resilience
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A Three-Layer Framework Paperback As countries consider how they will invest in essential improvements to their defenses against future health threats, we propose a three-layer investment framework approach for the most effective use of their resources.
Revisiting Targeting in Social Assistance
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A New Look at Old Dilemmas Paperback Targeting is a commonly used but much debated policy within global social assistance practice. This book examines the well-known dilemmas in light of the growing body of experience, new implementation capacities, and the potential to bring new data and...
Quality Early Learning
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Nurturing Children's Potential Paperback The Quality Early Learning volume synthesizes the latest relevant knowledge from multiple disciplines on how young children learn and what skills are most crucial for school-readiness.
Tackling the World's Fastest-Growing HIV Epidemic
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More Efficient HIV Responses in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Paperback The book details the steps taken by 11 countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia to strengthen their HIV programs based on the findings, and highlights critical issues for the road ahead.
Obesity
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Health and Economic Consequences of an Impending Global Challenge Paperback Obesity is a global ticking time-bomb with huge potential negative economic and health impacts, especially for the poor. Countries and global partners need to act urgently to address this ensuing epidemic with...
Protecting All
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Risk Sharing for a Diverse and Diversifying World of Work Paperback This book focuses on the policy interventions made to help people manage risk, uncertainty, and the losses from events whose impacts are channeled primarily through the labor market.
Risking Your Health
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Causes, Consequences, and Interventions to Prevent Risky Behaviors Paperback Behaviors posing risks for an individual's health include drug use, smoking, alcohol, unhealthy eating causing obesity, and unsafe sex. While traditionally associated with richer countries, risky behaviors are...
The Right Skills for the Job?
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Rethinking Training Policies for Workers Paperback This book revisits skills development policies and points to new directions for making training programs more effective and responsive in increasingly competitive labor market.
No Small Matter
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The Impact of Poverty, Shocks, and Human Capital Investments in Early Childhood Development Paperback The book offers the most updated findings on topics such as economic crises and young children, fragility and young children, the economic gradient of cognitive impairment, the convergence...
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