Poor sanitation costs Ghana 420 million Cedis each year, equivalent to US$290 million, according to a desk study carried out by the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). This sum is the equivalent of US$12...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68122Date: March 1, 2012Author:
Maina, Sylvia Wakiuru ;
Sittoni, Toni
This third volume of the National Assessment of Educational Achievement series focuses on state-of-the-art procedures that need to be followed in order to ensure that the data (such as test scores and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66609Date: February 10, 2012Author:
Greaney, Vincent [editor] ;
Kellaghan, Thomas [editor]
This book chronicles the anticorruption reforms that have transformed public service in Georgia since the Rose Revolution in late 2003. The focus is on the 'how' behind successful reforms of selected public...
High-speed rail services have now been operating in China for three years. How are they performing? What has happened to the conventional services they parallel? What has been the impact on the airlines?...
Type: BriefReport#: 66798Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Bullock, Richard G. ;
Jin, Ying ;
Salzberg, Andrew
The introduction of urban rail transit and high performance/quality/capacity bus transit systems throughout the world has dramatically improved the mobility of residents of cities in which they operate....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81576Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Reilly, Jack ;
Levinson, Herbert Sherman
In the first semester of 2011, three new projects reached financial closure in Sub-Saharan Africa, representing investment commitments of US$697 million. Investment in the first semester of 2011 increased...
Type: BriefReport#: 73207Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Kingston, Nicholas Alexander
Infrastructure contributed 1.3 percentage points to Tanzania's annual per capital GDP growth during the 2000s. If the country's infrastructure endowment were improved to the level of the African leader,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5962Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Shkaratan, Maria
This report provides a brief overview of six economic zones in Nigeria, and discusses the main findings with respect to the zones: development goals and the anticipated benefits of the zone projects, key...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 103442Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Zeng, Zhihua ;
Wong, Michael D. ;
Noumba Um, Paul
Armenia's strong economic growth from 2001-2008, when real gross domestic product (GDP) grew 12.6 percent per year on average, boosted living standards and created the fiscal headroom necessary for the...
Type: BriefReport#: 67969Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Coulibaly, Souleymane
The Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) reference guide seeks to provide advice on what PPP practitioners should know, rather than provide advice on what to do. The guide sets out the main topics, looks...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 79804Date: February 1, 2012
The eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is poised on the edge of a machete blade. Despite the achievement of considerable peace-building successes throughout much of this central African state...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 67570Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Alusala, Nelson ;
Gasana, Jean-Marie ;
Lamb, Guy ;
Mthembu-Salter, Gregory Francis
This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers:...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5979Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Mukim, Megha
The air transport sector is enjoying an optimistic growth rate while at the same time eliciting growing concern, due to its environmental impact and its vulnerability with respect to energy security. These...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 68010Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Dr. Schlumberger, Charles E.
Uganda has made substantial progress on its infrastructure agenda in recent years. The early and successful ICT reform detonated a huge expansion in mobile coverage and penetration resulting in a highly...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5963Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Ranganathan, Rupa
Moldova’s government has been reforming and modernizing its health care system, which suffers from insufficient funding and outdated equipment. To address these problems, the Moldovan Ministry of Health...
Recent accidents have brought attention in China to the issue of school transport safety. This note reviews the practice in countries with established school transport systems, takes a look at the current...
Type: BriefReport#: 67697Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Deng, Fei ;
J. Kurgan, Geoffrey
Over the past few years, China's railway sector has built an astonishing number of large and complex railway projects under its mid and long-term railway development plan. The paper argues that three factors...
Type: BriefReport#: 66797Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Amos, Paul Frederick ;
Scales, John Carter ;
Sondhi, Jitendra
An appropriate rural investment climate (RIC) is essential for rural businesses to be successful and generate employment and income in their communities. Improving the investment climate could facilitate...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 67842Date: February 1, 2012Author:
Sawada, Naotaka
This paper provides an update of the sources and uses of International Development Association (IDA) resources during FY11, the third and last year of the IDA15 replenishment period (FY09-11). As customary,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 66944Date: February 1, 2012
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