The Beras untuk Rakyat Miskin (Raskin) program was introduced as an emergency food security program in 1998; it delivers rice to be purchased at subsidized prices, prioritized to poor and near-poor households....
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 67308Date: February 1, 2012
This rural water supply design manual is the first of three related volumes prepared for the use of prospective and actual owners, operators, managements, technical staff, consultants, government planners...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 67751Date: February 1, 2012
Ratings for the Transport Infrastructure Maintenance and Rural Access Project for Uruguay were as follows: Outcomes were moderately satisfactory; risk to development outcome was moderate; Bank performance...
This Results Profile focuses on Tatev's new road in Armenia, which lead to economic revival. The road to Tatev monastery, a 9th century monastery, is an architectural masterpiece, a landmark, and a tourist...
January 27, 2012 since 2003, the Bank Group has been scaling up infrastructure commitments. At the peak of the global crisis, the Group emerged as the largest multilateral development financier in infrastructure,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73401Date: January 27, 2012Author:
Kolker, Eva ;
Russell, Catherine M. ;
Ordon, Karolina ;
Mazurkiewicz, Karolina H
In accordance with World Bank policies on environmental assessment (OP/BP 4.01), the project has been rated category 'A'. The environmental assessment has been prepared by the borrower and the circulation...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 66572Date: January 27, 2012
The North and South Pasig Sewerage System Project cover a sub-catchment area of 3,443 hectares of the Pasig River. This sub-catchment area includes Pasig City, portions of Mandaluyong City and Quezon City,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 66778Date: January 19, 2012
In 2010, Kazakhstan entered into a customs union with Belarus and Russia. The first, relatively easy step in the implementation of the customs union was accomplished in 2010 with the adoption of a common...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 74356Date: January 3, 2012
In the first semester of 2011, 34 new transport projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in nine low- and middle-income countries, involving investment commitments (hereafter...
Type: BriefReport#: 73206Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Kingston, Nicholas Alexander
This book explains how the Protection of Basic Services (PBS) programme provides support to the delivery of these services. It describes how the PBS programme has not only maintained the delivery of services...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74851Date: January 1, 2012
Understanding the links between gender inequality, poverty and environmental degradation, and taking responsive actions, can accelerate positive dynamics and promote sustainable development outcomes. Acknowledging...
Type: BriefReport#: 66554Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Ahmad, Nilufar
The World Bank has been privileged to be part of Vietnam's remarkable achievements in reducing poverty and graduating to middle income status through sustained high levels of growth over the past thirty...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66927Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Coulthart, Alan ;
Duong, Duc Ung
India's strong economic record since the 1980's has been associated with a significant reduction of poverty levels and important socio-economic gains, including increases in literacy and life expectancy....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71547Date: January 1, 2012
A new cross-country database on services policy reveals a perverse pattern: many landlocked countries restrict trade in the very services that connect them with the rest of the world. On average, telecommunications...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5942Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Borchert, Ingo ;
Gootiiz, Batshur ;
Grover, Arti ;
Mattoo, Aaditya
India's strong economic record since the 1980's has been associated with a significant reduction of poverty levels and important socio-economic gains, including increases in literacy and life expectancy....
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 69851Date: January 1, 2012
The Ukraine Food Safety Project found that the typical way of providing firm-level assistance conducting an in-depth diagnostic for companies in a pilot project, followed by an offer for assistance was...
Type: BriefReport#: 68203Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Cruikshank Ockman, Sarah Jane
Women and men use rural and urban transport for different purposes based on their socially determined roles and responsibilities. Poor rural transport systems limit access to markets, education, and health...
The World Bank (WB) Group has been a close companion to Vietnam over the last decades in support of its development path with enormous contributions not only for Vietnam's efforts to transition from a...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66928Date: January 1, 2012
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