This brief includes the following headings: international experience; key issues; lessons learned; recommendations; and case studies of World Bank financed projects.
Type: BriefReport#: 52947Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Baratz, Bernard
Six projects from six countries were selected as the cases for detailed analysis in this study. They are from Argentina, Botswana, India, Kenya, Lao PDR and Paraguay, representing a wide range of geographical...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81577Date: December 1, 2010Author:
Tsunokawa, Koji
The 'Dong Hoi City Environmental Sanitation Project' is a part of the 'Coastal Cities Environmental Sanitation Project' including Dong Hoi, Qui Nhon, and Nha Trang cities which commenced in 2004. The purpose...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 69669Date: December 1, 2010
This book provides border management policymakers and reformers with a broad survey of key developments in and principles for improving trade facilitation through better border management, including practical...
Type: PublicationReport#: 58845Date: November 30, 2010Author:
Doyle, Tom ;
Fanta Ivanovic, Enrique Guillermo ;
Mclinden, Gerard ;
Widdowson, David Charles
Biofuels offer new opportunities for African countries. They can contribute to economic growth, employment, and rural incomes. They can become an important export for some countries and provide low-cost...
Type: PublicationReport#: 58438Date: November 24, 2010Author:
Mitchell, Donald
This internal background paper has been prepared to help inform the 2010 environment strategy with respect to a proposed way forward on use of country systems. The World Bank Group environment strategy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81064Date: November 15, 2010Author:
Hamilton, Kirk E. ;
Akbar, Sameer
These remarks were delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank Group, on November 10, 2010 in Singapore. He spoke concerning the launch of the Infrastructure Finance Center of Excellence...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124464Date: November 10, 2010Author:
Zoellick, Robert B.
This press release announces on November 7, 2010, that decisive action is needed to combat corruption, improve the investment climate, enhance the rule of law, and consolidate peace if Burundi is to become...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169472Date: November 7, 2010
The World Bank Group (WBG) has been active in public and private sector pollution management for the past several decades. The Bank has mainstreamed environmental health concerns into its rural and urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68663Date: November 2, 2010
This paper examines international experience with mobilizing funding for both capital and recurrent costs for municipal infrastructure with a view to identifying areas where India could improve its system...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5474Date: November 1, 2010Author:
Annez, Patricia Clarke
Since its inception in 1991, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has been facilitating technology transfer to help developing countries address the global climate change challenge. The GEF has evolved...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 65692Date: November 1, 2010
This study focuses on, what is believed to be, a key client group of sex workers: mobile workers. While several studies have been conducted in Turkey on sex workers, little evidence exists on their clients,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63797Date: November 1, 2010Author:
Yeh, Ethan
This paper reports on a randomized survey experiment among one thousand eight hundred and forty households, designed to compare pen-and-paper interviewing (PAPI) to computer-assisted personal interviewing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 148049Date: November 1, 2010Author:
Caeyers, Bet ;
Chalmers, Neil ;
De Weerdt, Joachim
Quality in higher education is difficult to measure. Incentives to improve (or not) are often different for public and private institutions, and approaches to quality assurance have to be adapted to different...
Type: BriefReport#: 62251Date: November 1, 2010Author:
Hovde, Kate ;
Bin Mahfooz, Sara ;
Weber, Luc
This paper shows that the institutional environment and the ability to export on time are sources of comparative advantage as important as factors of production. In particular, the ability to export on...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5482Date: November 1, 2010
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