Since the Arab World Initiative (AWI) was first announced in October 2007, the World Bank Group has had extensive consultation with country authorities and other stakeholders, resulting in a framework...
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 69411Date: August 1, 2009
The Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, negotiated under auspices of the Arab League, came into force in 1997. Under the agreement all tariffs on goods of Arab origin were to be removed by January 1, 2005. This...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5031Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Zarrouk,Jamel Eddine
Despite growing agreement on the potential of technology to expand access to finance, or branchless banking, there is surprisingly little data publicly available about low-income users. This brief draws...
Type: BriefReport#: 50306Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Morawczynski,Olga ;
Pickens,Mark
The purpose of this note is to review the worldwide experience with the performance-based contracting (PBC) approach, highlight the main advantages, the steps involved and the results generated. The document...
Type: BriefReport#: 33947Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Queiroz,Cesar Augusto ;
Qureshi,Navaid A. ;
Stankevich,Natalya
According on climate change and tourism the industry 'must rapidly respond to climate change, within the evolving United Nation (UN) framework and progressively reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) contribution...
With strong, broad-based economic growth, Ghana today has reason for optimism. The country has just enjoyed two peaceful democratic transitions, and continues to be a beacon of hope in Africa for its democratic...
To facilitate air freight, landlocked countries need to improve operations at their airports and liberalize access for foreign airlines. But until those countries become major exporters, it is unlikely...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51747Date: August 1, 2009
Benin has been one of the most politically stable countries of West Africa, achieving a successful transition from a Marxist- Leninist state towards a pluralist democracy and a market economy. Four presidential...
Liberia economy, institutions, and human capacity were devastated by a 14-year civil war. Annual gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is only US$240 and life expectancy has fallen to 45 years. Since...
Despite its image as a self-sustaining region in agricultural production, about one-third of the population of LAC lives in net food importing countries, and most of the regions net food exporting countries...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 70796Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Stokenberga,Aiga ;
Wilmsmeier,Gordon
In the urban planning literature, it is frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to development patterns that are unsustainable in the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5017Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Anas,Alexandros ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
This introductory section explains the rationale for the guidance note, reflecting on the relevance of food prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), their impact on the poor and the effect that...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 87933Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Wilmsmeier,Gordon ;
Stokenberga,Aiga
This country partnership strategy (CPS), prepared jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Development Bank (AfDB), lays out the strategy and planned lending and non-lending support from the...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 49583Date: July 31, 2009
Transport and logistics costs are high in the LAC region. On a macro-level, the World Bank has estimated LAC logistics costs, as a percent of GDP, to be between 16 and 26 percent compared to the OECD benchmark...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70797Date: July 31, 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: emerging-market stocks...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61429Date: July 29, 2009Author:
Mick Riordan ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Streifel,Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige,Annette I.
This press release announces that the World Bank launched on July 16, 2009, a Supply Chain Security (SCS) Guide. The SCS Guide includes a top level explanation of the salient aspects of SCS, and its essential...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168939Date: July 16, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved on July 9, 2009, two loans for a total of two hundred seventy million sixty-five hundred thousand US dollars for two...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165557Date: July 9, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved two hundred eleven million seven hundred thousand US dollars loan to the Rio de Janeiro Mass Transit 2 Project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166987Date: July 9, 2009
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG) weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: German factory orders and industrial production post strong...
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