Transport is a crucial enabler for economic growth, poverty reduction, and attaining the millennium development goals (MDGs). The World Bank's transport business strategy for 2008-2012 stresses the need...
One of the major difficulties in doing cost-benefit analysis of a development project is to estimate the total economic value of project benefits, which are usually multi-dimensional and include goods...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5422Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Wang, Hua ;
Fang, Ke ;
Shi, Yuyan
This report presents the results of extensive work of the smart green infrastructure task force commissioned by the World Bank under the Global Tiger Initiative (GTI). The report benefited from advice,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 57411Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Quintero, Juan D. ;
Roca, Roberto L. ;
Morgan, Alexis ;
Mathur, Aradhna ;
Shi, Xiaoxin
Sanitation services are beneficial for communities at large. They generate strong positive health and environmental benefits to society ('externalities'). Public financing is an important way to stimulate...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56930Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Tremolet, Sophie Cecile Marie ;
Evans, Barbara
The Niger Diagnostic Trade Integration Study (DTIS) has been prepared under the Integrated Framework (IF) for trade related technical assistance to least developed countries in response to a request from...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 59968Date: September 1, 2010
The objective of the Bhutan Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate the investment climate in Bhutan in all its operational dimensions and promote policies to strengthen the private sector....
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 56993Date: September 1, 2010
This paper on East Europe and Central Asia urban regeneration and community of practice serves to provide guidelines to address the challenges faced increasingly in the improvement of urban areas. Urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84036Date: September 1, 2010
This document is an executive summary of the environmental impact assessment and environmental management plan documents for the Kunming Urban Rail Project. Kunming Urban Rail Project (Transit Line three)...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 57602Date: September 1, 2010
Croatia aims to crown fifteen years of impressive economic and social progress by joining the European Union (EU), but to do so, it will need to bolster its economic competitiveness, ensuring Croatians...
This paper on East Europe and Central Asia urban regeneration and community of practice serves to provide guidelines to address the challenges faced increasingly in the improvement of urban areas. Urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84036Date: September 1, 2010
Togo is one of the smallest countries in mainland Africa, with an area of 57,000 km2 and a population of 6.5 million, located on the Atlantic coast between Ghana and Benin. It is also one of the poorest...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 53711Date: September 1, 2010
This note provides an update on the World Bank's work in Sudan, to follow up the informal discussion among Executive Directors in March 2010. During the informal discussion of March 2010, Executive Directors...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 56480Date: September 1, 2010
Yemen, the fastest urbanizing country in the Middle East and North Africa region, has a very limited natural resource base and the efficiency of its cities is therefore essential for its future economic...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 49176Date: September 1, 2010
Yemen, the fastest urbanizing country in the Middle East and North Africa region, has a very limited natural resource base and the efficiency of its cities is therefore essential for its future economic...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 49177Date: September 1, 2010
This project paper seeks the approval of the Executive Directors to provide a third additional credit to the Pakistan - Highways Rehabilitation Project (HRP). The additional credit will help finance the...
The World Bank's study covered all modes of city and inter-city land transport, also designated in this report under the name of 'road transport'. However, the report focuses on the Governments two main...
Type: Other Public Sector StudyReport#: 49178Date: August 31, 2010
This note is the third of regular updates to the Board on the commitment and disbursement of International Development Association (IDA) Pilot Crisis Response Window (CRW) resources. As of August 31, 2010,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 56579Date: August 31, 2010
This review report focuses on the HIV component of the World Bank Bangladesh and Nepal transport infrastructure projects as at the end of 2009. This report is prepared with the following three objectives:...
Type: Other Health StudyReport#: 56848Date: August 13, 2010Author:
Hsu, Lee Nah
The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) faces difficult choices in managing the size of its civil service wage bill. The Government understands the need to watch the escalating wage bill carefully and put in...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 72004Date: August 11, 2010
Greater Beirut has been facing a deficit in potable water for the past forty years. In 1970 the Lebanese Government of the day passed a decree (presidential decree no. 14522, May 1970) in which it allocated...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 56226Date: August 6, 2010
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