Results-Based Financing (RBF) refers to a broad family of financial instruments. With RBF, public funding is provided only if pre-specified results have been achieved. Its use in the sanitation sector...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 65210Date: November 1, 2011Author:
Tremolet, Sophie Cecile Marie
New analysis of firm-level customs data from the Lao PDR shows that export flows in value terms are dominated by large firms supplying the same products to the same markets from one year to the next. New...
This International Comparison Program (ICP) newsletter includes the following heading: fifth ICP Executive Board meeting; Technical Advisory Group; fifth meeting of ICP regional coordinators; computation...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 65788Date: October 31, 2011
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) will carry out an evaluation to review how the World Bank Group (WBG) has, through its various types of interventions, supported its client countries to establish...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 82193Date: October 28, 2011
The objective of the Assam Agricultural Competitiveness Project (AACP) for India is to increase the productivity and market access of targeted farmers and community groups. The extension will enable the...
A well-maintained road network that provides the level of service required by road-users is an important element of Azerbaijan's development strategy to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty. As...
Type: City Development Strategy (CDS)Report#: 66532Date: October 13, 2011
This study (Study) developed a set of recommendations aimed at improving the sustainability of road management and financing in order to achieve the overall objective of modernizing the road network. The...
Type: City Development Strategy (CDS)Report#: 66533Date: October 13, 2011
The objectives of this study are: 1) to identify weaknesses and challenges confronting the sustainability of road maintenance and rehabilitation management; 2) to determine to what extent these are linked...
Type: City Development Strategy (CDS)Report#: 66534Date: October 13, 2011
A huge effort goes into validating the prices that enter the estimation of basic heading PPPs. The purpose of this paper is to show that once the prices have been validated, there should be another validation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90634Date: October 4, 2011Author:
Vogel, Frederic A.
The Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) action plan reflects extensive analysis and collaboration among the multilateral development banks and follows on a background report on infrastructure issues in...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 65561Date: October 1, 2011
Transport infrastructure and services still need to be made safer, cleaner and more affordable, particularly in developing countries. The transport sector needs to be more responsive to create long-term...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81547Date: October 1, 2011
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has funded nine activities in the united republic of Tanzania. The transport sector has been the biggest beneficiary with four activities, followed...
Lao People's Democratic Republic (PDR) is one of the least developed countries in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) provided assistance in 2002...
Infrastructure contributed half a percentage point to the Republic of Congo's annual per capita GDP growth from 2001 to 2006. If the country's infrastructure were improved to the level seen in Mauritius,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5838Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M. ;
Pushak, Nataliya
This note aims to help teams understand and monitor the interaction between the roads sector and contexts of violent conflict. This understanding should help project teams adapt project design and monitoring...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69761Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Rebosio Calderon, Michelle Paola ;
Wam, Per
This study poses the question of how Poland, an European Union (EU) member state, an industrialized Annex 1 country for the purposes of international climate discussions, and an Organization for Economic...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 77161Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Jorgensen, Erika A. ;
Kasek, Leszek Pawel ;
Malarski, Ryszard ;
Korczyc, Ewa Joanna ;
Rogers, John Allen ;
Stuggins, Gary
The development objective of the Zhangjiakou-Hohhot Railway Project is to improve accessibility and mobility by responding to existing and anticipated transport demand along the Hohhot-Zhangjiakou (to...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 66465Date: October 1, 2011
Sound infrastructure is critical for growth in East Africa. During 1995-2005, improvements in infrastructure boosted growth by one percentage point per year, due largely to wider access to information...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5844Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Ranganathan, Rupa
This Global Environment Facility (GEF)-Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) newsletter includes the following headings: project update; SUTP events; Bus do Kadam; G-auto; and World Bank mission.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 75951Date: October 1, 2011
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