Infrastructure contributed just over one percentage point to Ghana's improved per capita growth performance during the 2000s, though unreliable power supplies held growth back by 0.5 percentage points....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62388Date: 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. The AICD provides a baseline against...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62389Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Shkaratan,Maria
Geohazards can result in significant loss of human life as well as cause extensive damage to infrastructure. The magnitude and frequency of geohazard events ranges from earthquakes and tsunamis to landslides...
Type: BriefReport#: 56749Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Muzira,Stephen ;
Humphreys,Richard Martin ;
Pohl,Wolfhart
Liberia's 14-year civil war left much of the country's infrastructure shambles. The country's 170 megawatt power generation capacity and national grid were completely destroyed. In Monrovia, just 0.1 percent...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62390Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Pushak,Nataliya
The Government of Malawi has since 2005 been pursuing a growth strategy mainly based on increasing the volume of agricultural exports. This entails that Malawi should endeavor to improve the competitiveness...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5242Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Keyser,John C. ;
Tchale,Hardwick
A little over 10 years ago, only slightly more than one quarter of Peruvians living in rural areas had access to a road in good condition, hampering their efforts to get to markets, send their children...
Infrastructure contributed 1.2 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of Malawi's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past decade, thanks mainly to the revolution in information and communication...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62391Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Shkaratan,Maria
Some of the headings included in this newsletter of the World Bank in India are: a drought adaptation initiative in Andhra Pradesh; development dialogue: a pilot project in Karnataka shows water can be...
Governments in developing countries and members of the development aid community are acutely aware of the need to find more effective ways to improve basic living conditions for the poor. Traditional approaches...
This Results Profile focuses on transport in Colombia. Public transportation in Colombia was traditionally perceived as inefficient, unsafe, and polluting. The streets of Colombian cities were crowded...
The purpose of this note is to provide the International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011 Technical Advisory Group with an overview of the status of collaboration between the ICP Global Office, the World...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90441Date: February 19, 2010
The objective of the paper is to determine whether there should be some adjustments to exchange rates to reflect differences in costs such as freight charges. The starting point was to examine the availability...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90467Date: February 19, 2010Author:
McCart, Paul ;
Sergeev,Sergey
This model is designed to calculate unit road user costs adopting the Fourth Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-4) version two relationships for speeds, travel times, vehicle operating costs...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84200Date: February 18, 2010
There are currently nine active public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure in the region. The degree of poverty vulnerability in the Middle East and North Africa is very high. Overall, although...
Many investments in infrastructure are built on the belief that they will ineluctably lead to poverty reduction and income generation. This has entailed massive aid-financed projects in roads in developing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5209Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Gachassin, Marie ;
Najman, Boris ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
The "distance effect" measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on the gravity model, leading observers to call it the "distance...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5214Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Carrere,Celine ;
De Melo,Jaime A. P. ;
Wilson, John
Guinea has exceptional subsoil potential. The bauxite deposits of Guinea are estimated at about one third of the world's known reserves. Guinea has also about 3 billion tons of high grade iron ore deposits,...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 72373Date: February 1, 2010
Argentinean export growth was impressive during the recent economic boom (2003-2007). However, decomposing export growth reveals that the extensive margin (increases in exports of existing products to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5221Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Anos Casero,Paloma ;
Rollo,Valentina
There are currently nine active public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure in the region. Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean are responding to the global economic crisis by implementing...
Extortion by police and military personnel manning roadside security posts has been a consistent problem in each of Indonesia's areas of large-scale conflict. The staged withdrawal of security forces from...
Type: BriefReport#: 53334Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Olken,Benjamin ;
Barron,Patrick John
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