An approach to estimating the costs of adapting to climate change is presented along with results for major components of infrastructure. The analysis separates the price/cost and quantity effects of climate...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56660Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Hughes, Gordon A. ;
Chinowsky, Paul ;
Strzepek, Kenneth
Across West Africa, infrastructure improvements most notably in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector have contributed some 0.9 percentage points to recent improvements in per capita...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62754Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M. ;
Benitez, Daniel Alberto
This report is the output of the World Bank-financed study on Making Trans-port Climate Resilient for Ethiopia, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to respond to the impact of climate changes on road...
This report is the output of the World Bank-financed study on Making Transport Climate Resilient for Mozambique, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to respond to the impact of climate changes on...
Type: Strategic Environmental Assessment/AnalysisReport#: 69392Date: August 1, 2010
The Government of Burkina Faso (GoBF) has indicated that it wishes to relocate the current international airport of Ouagadougou, which lies close to the centre of the capital, to an alternative site at...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70067Date: August 1, 2010
Climate change is a new and important challenge to development strategies. In light of the current literature a framework for assessing responses to this challenge is provided. The presence of climate...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76809Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Lecocq, Franck Michel ;
Shalizi, Zmarak
Recent increases in production of crop-based (or first-generation) biofuels have engendered increasing concerns over potential conflicts with food supplies and land protection, as well as disputes over...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5406Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Carriquiry, Miguel Alberto ;
Du, Xiaodong ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
The development objective of the Hajia Railway Project for China is to reduce the transport time for passenger services and provide additional capacity for passenger and freight services between Harbin...
The Republic of Yemen has experienced steady development in the recent past and its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita is approaching US$1,000. By many aspects, Yemen is unique. It is still a rural...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 49175Date: August 1, 2010
This Brazil quarterly knowledge report newsletter includes some of the following headings: social assistance and shocks: the food crisis and CCT's by Fruttero, Anna; a critical juncture by Diop, Makhtar;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57495Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Lopes Mendes de Azeredo, Mauro ;
Cordella, Tito ;
Diop, Makhtar ;
Firmo, Marcio Gold ;
Fruttero, Anna ;
Levy, Evelyn ;
Finkelfarb Lichand, Guilherme ;
Dos Santos, Denise Marinho ;
Rocha, Romero C. Barreto ;
Velloso, Tarsila Ortenzio ;
Ximenes De Vasconcelos, Jivago Bezerra
The Government of Burkina Faso (GoBF) has indicated that it wishes to relocate the current international airport of Ouagadougou, which lies close to the centre of the capital, to an alternative site at...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70067Date: August 1, 2010
This is summarizes the policy-relevant insights of a generation of research on scale economies. Scale economies in production are of three types: internal economies associated with large plants, localization...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76808Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Gill, Indermit S. ;
Goh, Chor-Ching
This press release announces on July 27, 2010, that the High Level Donors Meeting for the Kyrgyz Republic was held in Bishkek, bringing together representatives of the Kyrgyz government, civil society,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169649Date: July 27, 2010
This press release announces that China’s drive to develop cities that are more energy and resource efficient was boosted on July 22, 2010 with the approval of a grant from the Global Environment Facility...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169420Date: July 22, 2010
In the last two decades new emphasis has been given to the economic impact of geography, especially on the cost of being landlocked. From a development perspective, understanding the cost of being landlocked...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55837Date: July 7, 2010Author:
Arvis, Jean Francois ;
Marteau, Jean-Francois ;
Raballand, Gael J. R. F.
The development objectives of the proposed Project are: (a) to increase the transport carrying capacity and throughput of the Shaying River; (b) to improve the cost-efficiency of the shipping industry...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 56505Date: July 1, 2010
Some of the headings included in this newsletter of the World Bank in India are: 164 km road opens up Mizoram's farflung and poor interior; 2010 South Asia economic update; World Bank provides record lending...
A high-speed rail service can deliver competitive advantage over airlines for journeys of up to about 3 hours or 750 km, particularly between city pairs where airports are located far from city centres....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 55856Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Amos, Paul Frederick ;
Bullock, Dick ;
Sondhi, Jitendra
The literature on the correlation between exports and economic development runs deep into the history of economic thought and permeates policy debates. This paper studies the microeconomic structure of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5376Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Lederman, Daniel ;
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres ;
Yi Xu, Daniel
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