Sound infrastructure is fundamental for
growth across the Economic Community of Central African
States (ECCAS). During 1995-2005, improvements in
infrastructure boosted...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5857Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
More than a decade of ambitious sector
reform has led to a period of stability in the Armenian
energy sector. The sector faces challenges more typical of a
developed...
Report#: 70020Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Hankinson,Denzel J. ;
Kochnakyan,Artur ;
Pierce,Lauren ;
Sargsyan,Gevorg
Numerous recent changes in the mining
industry have led governments to an increased interest in
the tender process as a means of awarding mineral rights.
High demand...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 65503Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Mikhaylova,Ekaterina ;
Stanley,Michael C.
Newly independent South Sudan faces a
challenge in making its own way in infrastructure
development. Despite earning $6 billion in oil revenues
since 2005, South Sudan's...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5814Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
Improvements in infrastructure across
Sudan in recent years have contributed 1.7 percentage points
to the country's per capita growth. Consistent with
trends in other...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5815Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in
the water supply sector began to emerge in the early 1990s
in most developing countries of the world. Initiated in most
countries...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66639Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Swaroop,Ananda
Recent sector work on air transport in
Yemen found the Yemeni air transport sector to be relatively
small compared to that of other countries of similar size,
population,...
Type: BriefReport#: 64473Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Schlumberger, Charles
Infrastructure contributed 1 percentage
point to Senegal's improved per capita growth
performance between 2000 and 2005, placing it in the middle
of the distribution...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5817Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Dominguez Torres,Carolina ;
Torres De Mastle,Clemencia
Infrastructure made a net contribution
of around 1 percentage point to Angola's improved per
capita growth performance in recent years, despite
unreliable power supplies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5813Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Pushak,Nataliya
Despite general economic decline and
power-supply deficiencies, infrastructure made a modest net
contribution of just less than half a percentage point to
Zimbabwe's...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5816Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Pushak,Nataliya
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) approved a small follow-up grant to update
the final report of the study on the restructuring of
Societe Mauritanienne...
The poor state of Cameroon's
infrastructure is a key bottleneck to the nation's
economic growth. From 2000 to 2005, improvements in
information and communications technology...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5822Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Dominguez Torres,Carolina ;
Foster,Vivien
Infrastructure contributed 1.3
percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capita
gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade,
much of it due to improvements...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5818Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Dominguez Torres,Carolina
This paper studies the governance
structure of state-owned enterprises in the water and
electricity sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Through a unique dataset,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5747Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Lopez Azumendi,Sebastian ;
Guasch, Jose Luis
In 2010, 102 infrastructure projects
with private participation reached financial or contractual
closing in 4 low- and middle-income countries in South Asia,
involving...
The objective of Public-Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) strategy is to help
address impediments to private investment and private sector
development...
In 2010, 13 infrastructure projects with
private participation reached financial or contractual
closure in 11 low- and middle-income countries, involving
investment...
The Republic of Cape Verde (Cape Verde)
is a small island country comprised of an archipelago of ten
islands, located off the coast of Western Africa. Cape Verde
has...
Using a cross-section of more than
40,000 manufacturing and services firms in 79 developing
countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys
Database, this paper assesses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5780Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Farole,Thomas ;
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
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