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Algeria - World trade indicators 2009 (Vol. 2 of 2) : Trade at a glance

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...
Type: Brief Report#: 72522 Date: December 1, 2009
Effective discipline with adequate autonomy : the direction for further reform of China's SOE dividend policy

This note explores the desirable direction for further reform of China's state-owned enterprise (SOE) dividend policy. This study represents an effort in exploring the desirable direction for further reform....
Type: Policy Note Report#: 53254 Date: November 27, 2009
Chairperson's summary : IDA15 mid-term review meeting (Washington, DC - November 18-20, 2009)

International Development Association (IDA) deputies and borrower representatives met in Washington to review progress to date on implementing the IDA15 framework and to consider IDA response to global...
Type: Board Report Report#: 52206 Date: November 20, 2009
Announcement of Satellite Observations Show Declining Levels of Gas Flaring and Greenhouse Emissions on November 17, 2009

This press release announces that the Global gas flaring has declined by a total of 22 billion cubic meters (bcm) over the past three years despite five percent rise in crude oil production over the same...
Type: Announcement Report#: 167526 Date: November 17, 2009
Albania - The governance partnership facility (GPF) funded study on small scale mining operations in Albania : improving transparency, economic, and financial issues, and health and safety impacts

This paper intends to provide an assessment of the size and number of the small scale mining workings in the industrial mineral sector in Albania. The Kruja zone, on which this study is focussed, registers...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 70195 Date: November 15, 2009 Author: Seferaj, Nikolla ; Bakallabashi, Jani ; Cukalla, Martin
Announcement of New Study Shows that Transforming African Infrastructure will require an Additional Thirty-One Billion a Year and Huge Efficiency Gains on November 12, 2009

This press release announces on November 12, 2009, that a study conducted in twenty-four African countries shows that the poor state of infrastructure in Sub Saharan Africa its electricity, water, roads,...
Type: Announcement Report#: 165465 Date: November 12, 2009
Announcement by World Bank-Metrobus Wins Harvard University Award for Sustainable Transit Project in Mexico City on November 12, 2009

This press release announces that Mexico City’s Metrobus project received on November 12, 2009, the 2009 Roy Family Award for Environmental Partnership from Harvard University. The award, presented every...
Type: Announcement Report#: 168766 Date: November 12, 2009
Announcement of Joining Forces to Save Lives for Safety on the Roads on November 11, 2009

This press release announces that the seven Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) issued a joint statement outlining a broad package of measures that each would implement in order to reduce an anticipated...
Type: Announcement Report#: 167525 Date: November 11, 2009
Announcement of World Bank Supports Kakheti Regional Roads Improvement Project on November 10, 2009

This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved thirty million US dollars IBRD loan for the Kakheti Regional Roads Improvement Project for Georgia on November 10,...
Type: Announcement Report#: 167339 Date: November 10, 2009
Announcement of World Bank Continues Support to Georgia’s East-West Highway Improvement Project on November 10, 2009

This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved twenty-eight million US dollars IBRD loan for the additional financing of the First East-West highway improvement...
Type: Announcement Report#: 166042 Date: November 10, 2009
Road Safety : A Call to Action

This story highlights every 6 seconds, someone is killed or maimed on the world's roads. Every 3 minutes, a child is killed in a road accident. Almost 90 percent of these injuries occur in low and middle...
Type: Brief Report#: 166840 Date: November 9, 2009
World development report 2010 : development and climate change (Vol. 1 of 2)

Thirty years ago, half the developing world lived in extreme poverty today, a quarter. Now, a much smaller share of children are malnourished and at risk of early death. And access to modern infrastructure...
Type: World Development Report Report#: 53077 Date: November 6, 2009 Author: Bierbaum, Rosina M. ; Fay, Marianne ; Ross-Larson, Bruce [editor]
Announcement of Bank Increases its Support for Transport Corridors in Central Africa on November 5, 2009

This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved an additional financing of two hundred seventeen million US dollars to help ensure the completion and expansion of...
Type: Announcement Report#: 165508 Date: November 5, 2009
Announcement of World Bank Supports Rehabilitation of the Osh-Batken-Isfana Road on November 3, 2009

This press release announces that the World Bank’s Board of Directors approved an IDA Credit and an IDA Grant totaling twenty-five million US dollars equivalent for the National Road Rehabilitation (Osh-Batken-Isfana)...
Type: Announcement Report#: 166041 Date: November 3, 2009
Private activity in infrastructure down, but still around peak levels

The report is about the private participation in infrastructure database. In 2008, 216 infrastructure projects with private participation reached financial or contractual closure in 48 low- and middle-income...
Type: Brief Report#: 53064 Date: November 1, 2009 Author: Bradley, Ada Karina Izaguirre
INFRA update : greening

This newsletter highlights: Infrastructure Recovery and Assets (INFRA) event at the annual meetings: greening recovery, seizing opportunities; guidance note: "greening" the INFRA platform; Africa to receive...
Type: Newsletter Report#: 54844 Date: November 1, 2009
Responding to threats of climate change mega-catastrophes

There is a low but uncertain probability that climate change could trigger "mega-catastrophes," severe and at least partly irreversible adverse effects across broad regions. This paper first discusses...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS5127 Date: November 1, 2009 Author: Kousky, Carolyn ; Rostapshova, Olga V. ; Toman, Michael A. ; Zeckhauser, Richard Jay
Time as a determinant of comparative advantage

It is assumed that added time to export adds cost to and lowers the volume of trade. Time delays may also affect the composition of trade and can disproportionately reduce trade in time-sensitive goods....
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS5128 Date: November 1, 2009 Author: Li, Yue ; Wilson, John S.
Systems of cities : harnessing urbanization for growth and poverty alleviation

Urbanization is a defining phenomenon of this century, and the developing world is the locus of this demographic transformation. Nearly two billion new urban residents are expected in the next 20 years,...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 51860 Date: November 1, 2009
Explaining high transport costs within Malawi - bad roads or lack of trucking competition ?

What are the main determinants of transport costs: network access or competition among transport providers? The focus in the transport sector has often been on improving the coverage of "hard" infrastructure,...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS5133 Date: November 1, 2009 Author: Lall, Somik V. ; Munthali, Thomas ; Wang, Hyoung Gun