The report estimates Middle East and
North Africa's (MENA's) infrastructure investment
and maintenance needs through 2020 at 106 billion dollars
per year or 6.9 percent...
Type: BriefReport#: 67730Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Freund, Caroline ;
Ianchovichina, Elena
The country profile for Russian
Federation is based on data from the enterprise surveys
conducted by the World Bank in 2012. The enterprise surveys
focus on the many...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 92384Date: January 1, 2012
The country profile for Lao is based on
data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World Bank
in 2012. The enterprise surveys focus on the many factors
that shape...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 92342Date: January 1, 2012
As with any large scale governmental
activity, there are always questions about how well a
function is performed in accomplishing its manifold
objectives: are decisions...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 93362Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Petersen, John E. ;
Vu,Ha Thanh Thi
This study is timely because several
investments are planned for container terminals in
Sub-Saharan Africa. From a public policy perspective,
disentangling the reasons...
Type: PublicationReport#: 68014Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Beuran,Monica ;
Isik,Gozde ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Refas,Salim
The country profile for China is based
on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World
Bank in 2012. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 92312Date: January 1, 2012
The rationale for the auction mechanism
is to provide long term, secure revenues to new generators
to guarantee the financing of new capacity to meet the
security of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69476Date: January 1, 2012
The increase in oil prices has created a
growing economic pressure in Nicaragua. The electric power
industry, especially, has generated controversy, because
electricity...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69670Date: January 1, 2012
This report only deals with the water
sector and only mentions sanitation aspects in passing.
However, it is recognized that the scale of the sanitation
challenge is...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70652Date: January 1, 2012
This report documents the Lao
People's Democratic Republic's success story in
rapid national electrification integrated within a broader
strategy of national and rural...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 69661Date: January 1, 2012
The development objective of Road
Infrastructure and Safety Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
was to reduce user costs on the priority sections of the
trunk and regional...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 105251Date: December 31, 2011
This report presents the findings of a
first-ever, comprehensive study of how Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC) region airports have evolved during a
notable period...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66236Date: December 20, 2011Author:
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
In China and in many other countries
there is a compelling public interest in the railway
industry. How do different countries try to pursue the
public interest in railways?...
Type: BriefReport#: 66216Date: December 1, 2011Author:
Amos,Paul ;
Bullock,Richard G.
The 2010 United Nations development
program's human development index ranked the Republic
of Chad 163 out of 169 countries in the world. Extreme
poverty, high vulnerability...
This is the first paper to build a
comprehensive empirical picture of power pricing practices
across Sub-Saharan Africa, based on a new database of tariff
structures...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5904Date: December 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Shkaratan,Maria
Infrastructure improvements boosted
growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
by 1.2 percentage points per capita per year during
1995-2005, mainly...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5898Date: December 1, 2011Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
Infrastructure improvements boosted
growth in the Economic Community of West African States
(ECOWAS) by one percentage point per capita per year during
1995-2005, primarily...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5899Date: December 1, 2011Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
Microfinance funding is becoming more
transparent. More than 60 microfinance funders regularly
report information on their microfinance portfolio to
Consultative Group...
Type: BriefReport#: 68072Date: December 1, 2011Author:
Scola Gahwiler,Barbara Bernadette Maria ;
Negre,Alice
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) has supported the government of Ghana since
2001 when it provided assistance for three transactions in
the water...
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