This press release announces on June 15, 2010, that the World Bank is offering a set of practical policy options for governments in the Middle East and North Africa confronted by the acute development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169316Date: June 15, 2010
This paper extends and develops the worked example included as section 3.4 of the Consultants report of January 2010. Its purpose is to demonstrate how the proposed approach would work in practice, using...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90523Date: June 11, 2010
This Results Profile talks about deepening the reform agenda in Macedonian Railways. Macedonian Railways, which operates the country’s railways, was in the mid-1990s one of the largest loss-making companies...
This Results Profile talks about connecting rural roads in Albania. Despite impressive progress in economic development, the Albanian population remains predominantly rural, where poverty remains endemic....
This Results Profile talks about the Armenia Lifeline Road Improvement Project. The 2008 world financial crisis had a major impact on the Republic of Armenia. Gross Domestic Product fell about 15 percent...
This Results Profile focuses on improved safety, quality and reliability of domestic air and sea transport in Tonga. With its remote location, small size, dispersed islands setting and other geographical...
The West and Central African Air Transport Safety and Security Project for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, and Mali aims to improve civil aviation authorities' compliance with safety and security standards...
The West and Central African Air Transport Safety and Security Project for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Guinea, and Mali aims to improve civil aviation authorities' compliance with safety and security standards...
Pakistan has achieved impressive macroeconomic results during the first half of the current decade , with ambitious reforms resulting in an acceleration of growth from 3.3 percent in 1997-2002 to over...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 69561Date: June 5, 2010
This note is the second of regular updates to the Board on the commitment and disbursement of International Development Association (IDA) pilot Crisis Response Window (CRW) resources. Total CRW resources...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 54943Date: June 2, 2010
In July 2009, the Cities Alliance launched a four-issue CIVIS series on climate change prepared by the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). This...
Type: BriefReport#: 73797Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Roberts, Debra
This paper studies the technical efficiency of airports in Latin America. The evolution of productive efficiency in the region has seldom been studied, mainly due to lack of publicly available data. Relying...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5339Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Perelman,Sergio ;
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
Kenya has entered a new decade with renewed momentum for strong and sustained growth. Being part of Africa's strong recovery after the global crisis and a regional leader in services, Kenya has high hopes...
Report#: 54906Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Fengler. Wolfgang ;
Kiringai, Jane
Given the increasing importance of the urban transport sector, the World Bank decided to explore the feasibility of setting up a possible urban accessibility/mobility index. The purpose of such an index...
The Guangzhou Green Trucks Pilot Project in support of Guangzhou's efforts to improve air quality in preparation for the 2010 Asian Games aimed to contribute to addressing three problems related to trucks...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69441Date: June 1, 2010
Patterns of household energy use and expenditure have been the subject of a large number of studies. Household expenditures on energy-particularly, how much the poor spend-have policy implications for...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 54929Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Kojima,Masami ;
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Bhattacharya,Soma
This report is the executive summary of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Framework (ESIAF) of the Tunisia Management and disposal of Hazardous Healthcare Waste (HCW) and Polychlorinated Bipheny...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 56203Date: June 1, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to benchmark Tunisia against other emerging economies in terms of the regulatory barriers affecting particular services sectors, and to assess the economy-wide effects of further...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5341Date: June 1, 2010Author:
Dee,Philippa Susan ;
Diop,Ndiame
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