This report provides a gender review of a decade and a half of World Bank infrastructure lending for 1,246 projects. The objective of this review is to assess the status of and trends in gender integration...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59079Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Ahmad, Nilufar
In 2010, SSATP moved forward with the implementation of the Second Development Plan (DP2), originally adopted in 2007, and refined through consultation with SSATP's member countries and partner organizations...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 66934Date: December 1, 2010
Private inspection of international shipments has been used over the last half-century for a variety of purposes. These include prevention of capital flight and improvement of import duty collection, among...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5515Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Velea, Irina ;
Cadot, Olivier ;
Wilson, John S.
This report provided the Government of Peru with a comprehensive strategic assessment of three key infrastructure sectors: water/sanitation, transport and electricity, and to propose selected recommendations...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 43494Date: December 1, 2010
Malawi sits amid a vibrant Travel and Tourism (T&T) region that is growing rapidly and increasing its world market share. Proximate to countries with thriving T&T sectors, Malawi has a relatively underdeveloped...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 62353Date: December 1, 2010
The objective of the Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa Emergency Roads Recovery Project for Pakistan is to enable the population along the project corridor to benefit from year round improved access and mobility through...
This document summarizes the environment impact assessment of the Bac Son - Nam Hai urban development project in Vietnam, highlighting the main issues and conclusions of the Environment Impact Assessment...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 59212Date: December 1, 2010
This report provided the Government of Peru with a comprehensive strategic assessment of three key infrastructure sectors: water/sanitation, transport and electricity, and to propose selected recommendations...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 43494Date: December 1, 2010
The Caspian Development Corporation (CDC) final implementation report is presented by the CDC consultant as the culmination of a process of analysis and consultation that began in May 2009. It builds on...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 68952Date: December 1, 2010
The 2010 annual meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) was held October 18-20 in Kampala, Uganda. This meeting was an opportunity to bring participants up to date on current...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66933Date: December 1, 2010
Social order relies on a complex network of infrastructure lifeline systems. When a disaster strikes, restoring lifeline systems is at the heart of restoring social organization. At the center of lifelines...
Type: BriefReport#: 52942Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Scales, John Carter
The Wenchuan earthquake affected 20 cities, 158 counties, and 3,655 towns and villages. Geographic and demographic conditions varied significantly from small, rural villages to county-level cities, as...
Type: BriefReport#: 52946Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Altaf, Mir A.
This report is the output of the World Bank-financed study on Making Transport Climate Resilient for Ghana, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to respond to the impact of climate changes on road...
Type: Strategic Environmental Assessment/AnalysisReport#: 69599Date: December 1, 2010
The World Bank financed the Gujarat State Highway Project (GSHP) during 2001-07. The project development objective was to enhance the capacity of the Government of Gujarat (GOG) for effective and efficient...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81574Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Bandyopadhyay, Arnab ;
Stankevich, Natalya
General considerations for the preparation of the infrastructure development plan, including communication, energy, transport, and water conservancy reconstruction are set out. This note complements the...
Type: BriefReport#: 52939Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Read, Geoffrey
This EdStats newsletter includes the following headings: what's new on the EdStats website? Second Millennium Development Goals (MDG 2): primary competition; third Millennium Development Goals (MDG 3):...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 65083Date: December 1, 2010
This note builds on the proactive measures taken by the Government of China as announced in: (i) the Decree of the state council of the people's Republic of China, issued on 9 June 2008, providing regulations...
Type: BriefReport#: 52940Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Leman, Edward
It has been six years since the devastating tsunami of 2004 and earthquake of 2005 shattered the lives of people in Aceh and Nias. Today traces of that devastation are barely visible, local economies are...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59566Date: December 1, 2010
This study seeks to strengthen the knowledge base with respect to competitiveness and profitability of the Ship Breaking and Recycling Industry (SBRI) and to investigate the feasibility of ship breaking...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 58275Date: December 1, 2010
The paper identifies the impact of physical barriers to trade within Central America through the use of an augmented and partially constrained Gravity Model of Trade. Adjusting the Euclidian distance factor...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5506Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Marcelo Gordillo, Darwin ;
Schwartz, Jordan Z. ;
Stokenberga, Aiga
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