This document constitutes the World Bank's Standard Request for Proposals (SRFP). As outlined in the World Bank's guidelines for selection and employment of consultants by World Bank borrowers, the SRFP...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 83121Date: May 1, 2010
In 2008, the Integration and Trade Sector (INT) of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) designed an innovative project in Central America called International Goods in Transit (or TIM, its Spanish...
Type: BriefReport#: 55889Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Sarmiento, Alvaro ;
Lucenti, Krista ;
Navarrete, Aurelio Garcia
This document was devloped as it initiated a pilot project - dubbed Guangzhou Green Trucks Pilot Project in support of Guangzhou's efforts to improve air quality in preparation for the 2010 Asian Games....
This report highlights deficiencies and indicates priorities for a prospective national transport strategy and action plan for further consideration by key stakeholders. The overall objective should be...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 54406Date: May 1, 2010
An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Over the past quarter-century, the retrenchment of Latin...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5317Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Calderon, Cesar ;
Serven, Luis
The World Bank (WB) initiated a pilot project - dubbed "Guangzhou Green Trucks Pilot Project" in support of Guangzhou's efforts to improve air quality in preparation for the 2010 Asian Games. The goal...
This report highlights deficiencies and indicates priorities for a prospective national transport strategy and action plan for further consideration by key stakeholders. The overall objective should be...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 54406Date: May 1, 2010
This report highlights deficiencies and indicates priorities for a prospective national transport strategy and action plan for further consideration by key stakeholders. The overall objective should be...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 54406Date: May 1, 2010
The Environmental Management Plan (EMP) for the Trung Son Hydropower Project (TSHPP) identifies the principles, approach, procedures and methods that will be used to control and minimize the environmental...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59935Date: May 1, 2010
This paper uses some simple conceptual models to draw out various implications of infrastructure investments with long lifetimes for the ability of societies to reduce their future greenhouse gas emissions....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5295Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Strand, Jon
This issue tells the story of one of Africa's most promising though often underappreciated industries: tourism. With facts, figures, and stories, this report paints a picture of the current and potential...
This result profile talks about highway improvements in Gujarat, India. Fast-growing Gujarat Province faced economic decline, poor road conditions were made worse by a growing number of vehicles on the...
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: Greece formally requests...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61588Date: April 23, 2010Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Streifel, Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige, Annette I.
Chad's first National Poverty Reduction Strategy was adopted in June 2003. Its implementation was undermined by persistent internal conflict, weak governance, and lack of commitment to and ownership of...
Type: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)Report#: 53965Date: April 23, 2010
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: equities tumble on Goldman;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61585Date: April 19, 2010Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Streifel, Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige, Annette I.
The internal objective of this strategy note is to outline directions for the World Bank's engagement in climate change (CC) in the Philippines, integrated with the new Country Assistance Strategy (CAS)....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 64753Date: April 16, 2010Author:
Ancheta, Christopher Casuga ;
Bojo, Jan P. ;
Dato, Victor ;
Heister, Johannes ;
Kariuki, Rosemary Mukami ;
Morton, John ;
Trohanis, Zoe Elena ;
Tuyor, Joe ;
Villaluz, Maya Gabriela Q. ;
Virtucio, Felizardo Jr K. ;
Wedderburn, Samuel G. ;
Zhang, Yabei
The most common use of national accounts is to examine the changes over time in GDP and other major aggregates, with the volume measures being particularly important in this regard. While some users analyze...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90870Date: April 16, 2010
Globalization has brought about a rapid expansion of international trade and a dramatic change in trade structure. The liberalization of trade in goods and services, containerization, new integrated transport...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 52303Date: April 15, 2010
Four decades of strong economic growth have lifted Botswana into the ranks of upper middle-income countries, but the country is still fighting to address poverty, inequality, and the worlds second-most...
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