Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage points to Cote d'Ivoire's annual per capita GDP growth over the mid-2000s before conflict began to erase the country's infrastructure and its growth contributions....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5594Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Pushak, Nataliya
Liberia's power generating capacity and national grid were completely demolished during 14 years of civil war. Piped water access fell from 15 percent of the population in 1986 to less than 3 percent in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5597Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Pushak, Nataliya
The original goal of the Motor Industry Development Program was to help the automotive industry in South Africa adjust to trade liberalization and become internationally competitive. In simple terms, it...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5585Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Madani, Dorsati H. ;
Mas-Guix, Natalia
The Upper Cisokan Pumped Storage Power Plant Project (UCPS) will be located in the hills of West Java, Indonesia, in the catchment of the upper Cisokan River. It will be approximately 150 km away from...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 61145Date: March 1, 2011
Infrastructure has contributed significantly to the growth of West African economies during the past decade. In Sierra Leone, infrastructure added only around 0.51 percentage points to the per capita growth...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63101Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Pushak, Nataliya ;
Foster, Vivien
Upgrading infrastructure plays a critical role in the Republic of Congo's quest to diversify its economy and reduce poverty. It is also an important source of growth on its own. A cross-country statistical...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63099Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Pushak, Nataliya ;
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M.
In the past decade, infrastructure contributed 0.5 percentage points to Kenya's annual per capita GDP growth. Raising the countrys infrastructure endowment to that of Africa's middle-income countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5596Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M. ;
Shkaratan, Maria
Recognizing the need to ensure the availability of strategic commodities at affordable prices, reduce logistics costs to facilitate the competitiveness of export products, and prepare the country for better...
The objective of this Caribbean Regional Electricity Generation, Interconnection, and Fuels Supply Strategy (the Study) is to analyze the availability of technically and financially sound regional and...
Report#: 59485Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Hansen, Megan Veronica ;
Nexant
Nha Trang City that is an administrative, economic, cultural center of Khanh Hoa has been accepted as the first grade city. Nha Trang has many favorable factors for tourism development. In the future,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 69672Date: March 1, 2011
By 2002 Burkina Faso had some but limited experience with private sector participation in infrastructure, notably in telecommunications and railroads. Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF)...
Community evacuation measures should be the centerpiece of Disaster Risk Management (DRM) systems. Because the Sanriku region has suffered from frequent tsunamis, its local communities have passed their...
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE), domestic and international assistance initiatives were launched by a large number of public and private sectors organizations; and various emergency...
Type: BriefReport#: 80086Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Osa, Yukie ;
Sagara, Junko ;
Ishiwatari, Mikio
In response to the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) disaster, relief goods were distributed and delivered through prefectural- and municipal-level depots. This delivery system faced several problems...
Type: BriefReport#: 80093Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Okumura, Makoto
Transportation has always played a fundamental role in the formation of cities. Ports evolved where rivers flowed into the ocean or at the confluence of major rivers; sleepy outposts at the junction of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73717Date: March 1, 2011
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces possibly the most daunting infrastructure challenge on the African continent. Conflict has seriously damaged most infrastructure networks. Vast geography, low...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5602Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Benitez, Daniel Alberto ;
Foster, Vivien
Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita GDP growth over the last decade. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment to that of the region's middle-income countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5595Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Morella, Elvira
The objectives of the project is to: design and disseminate an appropriate monitoring and evaluation tool for the wellness centre concept, in partnership with North Star Alliance (NSA) and Abidjan-Lagos...
The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has gathered and analyzed extensive data on infrastructure in more than 40 Sub-Saharan countries, including Angola. The results have been presented in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 64734Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Pushak, Nataliya ;
Foster, Vivien
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) assistance to the Republic of Sudan began with a request from the ministry of finance and national economy to provide technical assistance to review...
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