The EBRD-World Bank Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) is a joint initiative of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank. The BEEPS has...
This report, City Development Strategy for Can Tho, was completed to portray the long term development strategy for the city of Can Tho in the Republic of Vietnam. The report states that within the next...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68757Date: January 1, 2012
Indonesia is an oil producing country and is the only East Asian member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Over the years, this endowment of oil resources has been steadily exploited...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 70420Date: January 1, 2012
This report argues that sustained growth is necessary to achieve the urgent development needs of the world's poor and that there is substantial scope for growing cleaner without growing slower. Green growth...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 69125Date: January 1, 2012
As the world recovers only slowly from the 2008 financial crisis and Europe is facing a looming debt crisis, concerns have increased that the "new normal" -- a period of high unemployment, low returns...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5940Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Lin, Justin Yifu ;
Doemeland, Doerte
The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates the significant impact of a neglected...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5948Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Arnold, Jens Matthias ;
Javorcik, Beata ;
Lipscomb, Molly ;
Mattoo, Aaditya
During the recent financial crisis more than a quarter of enterprises in North America and Europe that use third party logistics service providers decided to shorten their supply chains. The firms also...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70235Date: January 1, 2012
This report outlines these findings, including damage and loss estimates and social and economic impacts, and proposes strategies for resilient recovery and reconstruction planning. Heavy rain combined...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69822Date: January 1, 2012
Uganda has started its journey into urbanization and economic development. The pace of urbanization is picking up currently at 4.5 percent per year, and likely to accelerate with rising incomes. The economic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69523Date: January 1, 2012
This policy note provides an overview of policy issues pertaining to the public supply chain of essential drugs in Zambia. It gives an overview of the main results of the Essential Drug Public Pilot Program...
Type: Other Health StudyReport#: 71856Date: January 1, 2012
These notes used enterprise survey data from 46,556 manufacturing and services enterprises in 106 countries from the following regions: Sub-Saharan Africa (AFR), East Asia and Pacific (EAP), Europe and...
The city of Visakhapatnam has implemented a number of reforms including e-governance and citizen-friendly initiatives. Vizag has been the first city in the country to implement e-governance and still leads...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73224Date: January 1, 2012
The study focuses on the organizational, technical, and management issues associated with the restructuring, and commercialization of Road Agencies in seven countries: Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 71789Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Pinard, Michael Ian
Current growth patterns are not just unsustainable, they are also inefficient. Therein lays the potential for green growth, growth that is efficient, clean and resilient. Greening our growth patterns is...
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 roads, to improve road safety,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 105251Date: December 31, 2011
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been involved in developing South Asia’s tourism enabling environment for more than a decade. From 2002-2004 the ADB provided the tourism working group (TWG) with technical...
Type: ReportReport#: 139414Date: December 31, 2011
This Results Profile talks about transforming Croatia's Rijeka port and city. Rijeka is one of the largest private terminal operators in the world. The long term plan was to make the port, a gateway to...
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 of transition in airport ownership....
Type: PublicationReport#: 66236Date: December 20, 2011Author:
Serebrisky, Tomas S.
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