This country level trade brief summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the food crisis and global recession. The trade at a glance...
This press release announces that the World Bank approved eight million fifty-three thousand US dollars grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to be implemented by the World Bank to the Brazilian...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167118Date: December 29, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank approved thirty-eight million US dollars grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the Sustainable transport and air quality project in Mexico...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167162Date: December 28, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on December 22, 2009, approved a supplemental International Development Association (IDA) credit of one hundred seventy million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165750Date: December 22, 2009
This press release announces that the Republic of Korea prepaid in its entirety its outstanding debt of thirty-three million five hundred thousand US dollars million to the International Development Association...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167522Date: December 16, 2009
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: Mexico hit with second...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61515Date: December 15, 2009Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Streifel, Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige, Annette I.
One of the most compelling reasons for pursuing low-carbon development is that the potential impacts of climate change are predicted to be severe, for both industrial and developing countries, and that...
This is the executive summary of the main documents prepared for the Sao Paulo Metro to comply with the environmental safeguards procedures for the construction of the Largo Treze-Chacara Klabin extension...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 52305Date: December 14, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank on December 10, 2009, approved two projects worth four hundred five million US dollars to India, designed to promote environmentally friendly modes of urban...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165713Date: December 10, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved one hundred ninety million US dollars International Development Association (IDA) credit to improve the connectivity...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165565Date: December 10, 2009
This press release announces that Siemens AG will distribute funds totaling one hundred million US dollars, over fifteen years, to nonprofit organizations worldwide that promote business integrity and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167528Date: December 9, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Directors approved two grants for a total of twenty-four million five hundred thousand US dollars to support Haiti’s economic governance reform...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167345Date: December 8, 2009
The World Bank's world development report 2010 on climate change and development commissioned an international poll of public attitudes to climate change. The poll is the first to specifically target developing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52066Date: December 3, 2009
This press release announces on December 3, 2009, a new poll of fifteen nations, most of them in the developing world, finds that majorities of the people canvassed want their governments to take steps...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165458Date: December 3, 2009
The Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) collectively are ready, in collaboration with other international financial institutions, United Nation (UN) agencies and other development partners, to build...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76311Date: December 2, 2009
Private activity in infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean showed mixed results in 2008, according to just-released data from the Private Participation in Infrastructure Project database. Investment...
Type: BriefReport#: 53067Date: December 1, 2009Author:
Bradley, Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Jett, Alexander Nicholas
The purpose of this working paper is to evaluate the future of the aluminum industry in West and Central Africa, with a focus on aluminum smelting and its relationship with power generation and availability...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 54719Date: December 1, 2009Author:
Husband, Charles A. ;
Mcmahon, Gary Joseph Raymond ;
Veen, Peter van der
Trade Watch is a monthly note that follows international trade flows from a global perspective. It contains up-to-date trade data from an array of sources, covering issues such as import and export growth...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 74212Date: December 1, 2009Author:
Freund, Caroline ;
Horenstein, Matias David
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