Benin’s port of Cotonou is a potential gateway to landlocked West African countries, but high shipping costs, low efficiency, and poor logistical facilities have kept it from becoming a key trade route....
This paper responds to a request from the International Development Association (IDA) deputies that Bank management report on implementation progress of IDA's regional pilot program at the IDA15 mid-term...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 51471Date: October 1, 2009
Seven years out of brutal conflict, Sierra Leone is now a peaceful and stable country. Yet, its strides toward economic recovery and competitiveness have been modest even in sectors such as tourism, which...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5083Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Shakya,Mallika
Rapidly increasing emissions of carbon dioxide from the transport sector, particularly in urban areas, is a major challenge to sustainable development in developing countries. This study analyzes the factors...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5098Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Shrestha, Ashish
The Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGD) agreed, as part of the identification of a follow-up project to the on-going Rural Transport Improvement...
Type: Country Infrastructure FrameworkReport#: 68304Date: October 1, 2009
Using a nested multinomial logit model of car ownership and personal travel in Beijing circa 2005, this paper compares the effectiveness of different policy instruments to reduce traffic congestion and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5068Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Anas,Alexandros ;
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Zheng,Siqi
A pro-growth, pro-poor transport strategy (PGPTS) responsive to the second generation poverty reduction strategies (SGPRSs) and the millennium development goals (MDGs) are essential instruments to promote...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 53499Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Mitiku,Tesfamichael Nahusenay
The province of Papua of the Republic of Indonesia was provided special autonomy under law 21-2001 in recognition of the fact that 'the management and use of the natural wealth of Tanah Papua has not yet...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 51777Date: October 1, 2009
This paper analyzes the impact of infrastructure on growth of total factor productivity and per capita income, using both growth accounting techniques and cross-country growth regressions. The two econometric...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5105Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Straub,Stephane ;
Noumba Um,Paul ;
Vellutini,Charles
The Local Government Division, Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGD) agreed, as part of the identification of a follow-up project to the on-going Rural Transport Improvement...
Type: Country Infrastructure FrameworkReport#: 68304Date: October 1, 2009
The authors systematically document remarkably high degrees of concentration in manufacturing exports for a sample of 151 countries over a range of 3,000 products. For every country manufacturing exports...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5081Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Easterly,William R. ;
Reshef,Ariell ;
Schwenkenberg,Julia Meike
The Mexico City Metropolitan Area has been suffering severely from transportation externalities such as accidents, air pollution, and traffic congestion. This study examines pricing instruments to reduce...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5071Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Parry,Ian W.H. ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
This report will look at how the Government of Morocco (GoM) has addressed the issues of decentralization and deconcentration in recent years. It discusses how these processes have affected public policies...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69706Date: October 1, 2009
The remote and sparsely populated provinces of Papua and West Papua face a time of great change. Monetary transfers from Jakarta have grown extraordinarily in recent years, by more than 600 percent in...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: AAA42Date: October 1, 2009
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) has developed recently an ambitious master development plan for Amman city based on an innovative approach to metropolitan, urban and community planning. It has been established...
Type: Development Policy Review (DPR)Report#: 69138Date: October 1, 2009
New private activity in infrastructure continues to take place in developing countries despite the financial and economic crisis. New projects are being tendered and brought to financial or contractual...
Type: BriefReport#: 53060Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre
Mozambique's recent history is a rare example of a successful post-conflict recovery and economic takeoff. Emerging from decades of economic stagnation and decline, a consequence first of a failed socialist...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 51326Date: October 1, 2009
This paper proposes an alternative approach to addressing the complex problems of climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions. The author, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, argues...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5095Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Ostrom,Elinor
This study examines impacts on net social benefits or economic welfare of alternative policy instruments for reducing traffic congestion and atmospheric emissions in São Paulo, Brazil. The study shows...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5099Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Anas,Alexandros ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
This paper examines product market policies in Croatia by benchmarking them to OECD countries and highlighting how policies that are more conducive to competition would stimulate a more efficient allocation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5100Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Boromisa,Ana Maria ;
De Rosa,Donato ;
Madzarevic-Sujster,Sanja ;
Sonje,Velimir
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