This press release announces that the World Bank Group declared a comprehensive settlement with Siemens AG in the wake of the company’s acknowledged past misconduct in its global business and a World Bank...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167529Date: July 2, 2009
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) is on the mend. Over the past 14 years, infrastructure and basic services have been restored to almost prewar levels, while the country and its people have made substantial...
Studies have shown that poverty reduction is more likely to be effective when communities have ready access, at all hours and in all weather, to essential services and to markets. Despite this knowledge,...
Infrastructure investment is a central part of the stimulus plans of the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region as it confronts the growing financial crisis. This paper estimates the potential effects...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5009Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Dragoiu,Georgeta ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z.
Infrastructure investment is a central part of the stimulus plans of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region as it confronts the growing financial crisis. This paper estimates the potential effects...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 88016Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Dragoiu,Georgeta ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z.
"Greening" infrastructure potentially offers a convergence of delivering multiple objectives: promoting economic growth and development, enhancing long-term competiveness, and poverty reduction along with...
Type: BriefReport#: 54782Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Akbar,Sameer
The main message of this report is that Pakistan can take measures to increase the tax to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio by around 3.5 percentage points over the next five years. In order to ensure...
Type: Other Public Sector StudyReport#: 50078Date: July 1, 2009
Since 1986, Uganda has evolved from a nearly 'failed state' battered by violent dictatorships to a country with a track record of growth and institutional reform. Uganda's gross development product (GDP)...
This mineral sector review examines the mineral sector as a potential source of growth and development in Malawi. In seeking the World Bank's assistance the Government of Malawi was particularly interested...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 50160Date: July 1, 2009
Infrastructure has particular challenges in public procurement, because it is highly complex and customized and often requires economic, political and social considerations from a long time horizon. To...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4994Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Iimi,Atsushi ;
Ruzzier,Christian Alejandro
The sharp price increases in the world oil market in 2007 and 2008 took everyone by surprise. And just as some oil analysts were forecasting US$200 a barrel or even higher, the oil price collapsed in the...
This paper is designed to help both the beneficiary governments and donors of aid-for-trade identify countries that are under-performing in trade and which are receiving less aid for trade than their global...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4991Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Gamberoni,Elisa ;
Newfarmer,Richard S.
In July 2009, the Cities Alliance launched a four-issue CIVIS series on climate change prepared by the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). This...
Since the launch of economic reforms in the 1980s, Tanzania's population has benefited from a gradual increase in income, driven by improvements in economic performance, implementation of structural reforms,...
Sri Lanka faces a historic opportunity to evolve from a lower-income country mired in conflict, to a middle-income country in lasting peace. The International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's...
The problem of climate change seems to be a tragedy of the commons: despite the global benefits of reducing green-house gas emissions, no individual has any incentive to reduce his or her own emissions....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5006Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Irwin,Timothy C.
Over the past two decades, the growing awareness of the role that emissions play in human health and environmental degradation had led to a general movement in many parts of the world to control emissions...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 60514Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Hammitt,James ;
Robinson, Lisa
Unsafe, polluting buses are allowed to operate on Dhaka's already choked roads. Yet past efforts to regulate and reform bus operations have been thwarted by the efforts of business syndicates, politicians,...
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