Infrastructure improvements contributed 0.6 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of Zambia's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past decade, mostly because of the exponential growth of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62392Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Dominguez Torres,Carolina
Heavy goods vehicle overloading is a serious problem across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Such overloading not only significantly accelerates the rate of deterioration of road pavements but, when coupled...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 66935Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Pinard, Michael lan
The main purpose of an appraisal framework for transport infrastructure projects and programs is to provide an objective and transparent basis for decision-makers to ascertain the feasibility and levels...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56955Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Veron,Adrien J.
The March 24, 2010 ministerial consultation to discuss regional cooperation and integration initiatives for the Arab world was a key milestone in the Arab world initiative, one of the six strategic directions...
Type: BriefReport#: 54015Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Akhtar,Shamshad
Mobility is a major factor in access to economic resources, education, health, and other key elements influencing women's empowerment. In Middle East and North African countries, like in many other developing...
Type: BriefReport#: 53378Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Aljounaidi,Lamis
Argentina's road sector remains under significant pressure to deliver high-quality services, with traffic growing at an unprecedented 40 percent since 2003. This growth implies a rate higher than 10 percent...
This note aims at providing feedback on Brazil's successful experience in using performance based contracts in the rehabilitation and maintenance of the road networks. Since its introduction in the early...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56957Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Lancelot,Eric R.
This newsletter includes some of the following headings: a dark side of financial integration: the global crisis transmission to Brazil, by Tatiana Didier; as diverse as Brazil, by Makhtar Diop; what is...
Report#: 57494Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Lopes Mendes De Azeredo,Mauro Lopez Mendes De ;
Didier Brandao,Tatiana ;
Diop,Makhtar ;
Rebelo,Jorge M. ;
Rocha,Romero C. Barreto
This report reviews and recommends strategies to regulate the trade of wildlife through Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar is an ideal site to launch an effort to support improved enforcement of wildlife...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63756Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Fine, Amanda ;
Odonchimeg, N. ;
Scharf, Katie
Albania has made considerable progress since transition in overcoming the legacy of nearly forty years of autarky. But despite significant progress and some of the fastest rates of gross domestic product...
Type: BriefReport#: 56745Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Humphreys,Richard Martin ;
Guxho,Artan ;
Ishihara,Satoshi
The paper aims to provide guidance for both transport and gender specialists on how to mainstream gender-related considerations into road transport projects to improve development effectiveness, sustainability...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56954Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Babinard,Julie ;
Hine,John L. ;
Ellis,Simon David ;
Ishihara,Satoshi
Construction governance failures can lead to the construction of the wrong infrastructure, poor quality construction, and excessively high prices for work. There is some evidence from both other sectors...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5247Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Kenny,Charles J.
The Paraguay-Parana rivers waterway system (referred to in the text as the Hidrovia, or HPP) is potentially the greatest axis for freight movement in the sub-region and a possible integration mechanism...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 54900Date: March 1, 2010
This study is a product of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed to expand the world's knowledge of physical infrastructure in Africa. Infrastructure contributed 1.8 percentage...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62385Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Pushak,Nataliya
Today, Brazil has the second longest highway network under private concessions in the world. This paper analyzes Brazil's experience under the two first phases of the federal road concession program, and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56956Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Cellier,Jacques L. ;
Veron,Adrien J.
In the past, Colombia faced urban transport problems that significantly lowered the quality of life of urban Colombians. Starting in the late 1990s, the programa nacional de transporte urbano helped transform...
Infrastructure contributed 0.6 percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the last decade. Raising the country's infrastructure endowment level to that of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62387Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Morella,Elvira
This regional study takes twelve oil-importing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and asks the following two questions: does each stage in the supply chain, from import of crude oil or refined products to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 54927Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Kojima,Masami ;
Matthews, William ;
Sexsmith,Frederick J.
Despite a once fast-growing economy, Gujarat province was facing an economic decline that was not being helped by its poor road conditions and a growing population of car users. The impact on people's...
The Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) has gathered and analyzed extensive data on infrastructure in around 40 Sub-Saharan countries, including the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62386Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Benitez,Daniel Alberto
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