There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon prices. The authors confirm the findings of other research that unilateral emissions...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5123Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Subramanian,Arvind ;
Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique ;
He, Jianwu
This study used the data gathered during a previous World Bank project to assess the available options for the cost-effective reconstruction and rehabilitation of livestock market and slaughter facilities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69785Date: November 1, 2009
China is experiencing rapid and large scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese Government has fully recognized these challenges...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59012Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Baeumler,Axel E. N. ;
Chen,Mansha ;
Dastur,Arish Adi ;
Zhang,Yabei ;
Filewood, Richard ;
Al-Jamal,Khairy ;
Peterson,Charles W. ;
Randale, Monali ;
Pinnoi,Nat
In recent years, there has been an increasing recognition that significant welfare gains could be realized through deep forms of regional integration which entail harmonization of legal, regulatory and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5126Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N. ;
Noll,Roger G. ;
Benjamin,Nancy Claire
Xiamen has sustained one of the fastest economic growths in China. After a decline in commercialactivity in the mid-20th century, it was selected in 1980 as one of the country’s first four experimental...
2009 has been a difficult year, with larger-than-expected losses in output and employment and a sharp rise in poverty. But the Russian economy, aided by higher oil prices and stronger global demand, is...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51699Date: November 1, 2009
The Republic of Belarus officially acceded to the Stockholm Convention in 2004 and assumed the respective implementation obligations. To implement effective measures on addressing the problem of persistent...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 51728Date: November 1, 2009
This paper studies the effect of enforcing labor regulation in an economy with a dual labor market. The analysis uses data from Brazil, a country with a large informal sector and strict labor law, where...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5119Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel
Cement is a key sector for the Global Manufacturing and Services Department (GMS), accounting for about 18 percent of the department's commitment volume. Development results for this sector have been consistently...
Type: BriefReport#: 83854Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Kumar,Ruchira
Road use charging is used by agencies for activities ranging from revenue collection, through demand and environmental management. It is applied on individual road segments, such as an expressway, or over...
Type: BriefReport#: 53314Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Oh,Jung Eun ;
Vukanovic,Svetlana ;
Bennett,Christopher R.
Private activity in transport declined in 2008, with the full onset of the financial crisis driving a slowdown in the second half of the year. Yet while investment commitments to transport projects with...
Type: BriefReport#: 53061Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Jett,Alexander Nicholas
The study reports on the preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment (DNA) of the districts of Buner, Lower and Upper Dir, Shangla, and Swat in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) along with two tribal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70328Date: November 1, 2009
Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, is located near the geographic center of Colombia, 2,640 meters (8,661 ft) sea level. It is the largest and most populous city in the nation, with an estimated 8.2...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 52126Date: November 1, 2009
A joint venture between the government of Samoa and Australia's Virgin Blue, a low-cost carrier, turned an annual United States (U.S.) 7.5 million dollars government subsidy into a U.S. 6.6 million dollars...
The objectives of this Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) were to assess the environmental quality in the Philippines with a focus on how this affects human welfare and sustainability, measure and analyze...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 51683Date: October 29, 2009
This press release announces on October 26, 2009, that Mexico could reduce its carbon (CO2) emissions by at least forty-two percent per year by 2030 without sacrificing economic development, a World Bank...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168772Date: October 26, 2009
This press release announces that the Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a loan for one hundred fifty million US dollars in support of the Metropolitan Areas Urban Transport Project (PTUMA)...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165642Date: October 20, 2009
This partial transcript, from the session of joint meeting of Executive Directors of the IBRD and IDA held on October 20, 2009, covers the following: (i) Argentina - Santa Fe road infrastructure project...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 148323Date: October 20, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved one billion five million loan aimed to develop public policies to support the stimulus of the economy while strengthening...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167240Date: October 20, 2009
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