This executive summary presents a synopsis of the contents of two corridor level environmental impact assessment (EIA), one for the E-75 corridor and one for the E-80 corridor, both prepared by an independent...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48851Date: June 3, 2009
This Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) sets out the country context, country development program, and envisaged World Bank program for Poland for the period 2009-13, the remaining five years of the 2007-13...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 48666Date: June 2, 2009
The 2006 CAS followed three years of strong growth after the 2001-2002 crises, with prospects for continued growth in the short term. Sustainability of long-term growth, however, depended on structural...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 112887Date: June 2, 2009Author:
Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)
The press release announces that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on June 2, 2009, approved two hundred forty-five million US dollars International Development Association credit to the government...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166006Date: June 2, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank’s Board of Directors approved an Emergency Infrastructure and Electricity Rehabilitation Project (PURISE) for the Republic of Togo on June 2, 2009. This...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167107Date: June 2, 2009
In many countries, place specific investments in infrastructure are viewed as integral components of territorial development policies. But are these policies fighting market forces of concentration? Or...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4966Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Lall,Somik V. ;
Schmidt,Emily M. ;
Schroeder,Elizabeth
In 2007 International Finance Corporation (IFC) successfully advised the government of Jordan on structuring and awarding a 25-year concession for the Queen Alia International Airport in Amman a competitive...
This working paper provides a bottom-up estimate of energy use and Green-House Gas (GHG) emissions for the transport sector based on data available at the city and municipal levels. For urban transport...
Despite the financial and economic crisis, new private activity in infrastructure continues to take place in developing countries. New projects are still being tendered and brought to financial closure,...
Type: BriefReport#: 51764Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre
Dependence on the oil sector as a source of economic growth is no longer sustainable given the rate at which oil reserves are being depleted. Yemen will come to rely on other sectors of the economy, some...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 47985Date: June 1, 2009
The changed role of rail in Africa over the last thirty years has seen it move from a situation where many of the systems were carrying a high share of their country's traffic to one in which their market...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 49193Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Bullock,Richard G.
This executive summary provides an outline of the main regional environmental and social findings comprising the Regional Environmental Review (RER) of the Third Highway Project in Azerbaijan. The Government...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 52013Date: June 1, 2009
Contrary to popular perception, Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries are significantly threatened by climate change, with serious risks already in evidence. The vulnerability and adaptive capacity of...
Type: BriefReport#: 50772Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Block,Rachel Ilana ;
Carrington,Timothy T. ;
Ebinger,Jane Olga ;
Fay,Marianne
The tool aims at helping the authorities accelerate public projects and public-private partnerships PPPs, to identify the key bottlenecks in the capacity to execute project and more broadly and opportunities...
The air transport market in Sub-Saharan Africa presents a strong dichotomy. In Southern and East Africa the market is growing: three strong hubs and three major African carriers dominate international...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 49194Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Bofinger, Heinrich C.
This report was commissioned to draw lessons from the experiences with public private partnerships (PPPs) in the transport sector in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries. The report will review experiences...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 49513Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Cuttaree,Vickram ;
Humphreys,Richard Martin ;
Muzira,Stephen ;
Strand,Jukka-Pekka
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank jointly issued the world report on road traffic injury prevention on world health day 2004, dedicated by the WHO to the improvement of global road...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81598Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Bliss, Tony ;
Breen,Jeanne M.
This paper includes the following articles: Thailand to fight global warming with two new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects; and World Bank's response to the global crisis.
This paper documents the trends in infrastructure in major Latin American economies over the last quarter century. Drawing from an expanded and updated data set, the paper sheds light on the region's infrastructure...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 53523Date: May 29, 2009Author:
Calderon, Cesar ;
Serven,Luis
This press release announces that the World Bank approved six million eighty-one hundred thousand US dollars in additional grant assistance to Afghanistan's Emergency customs modernization and trade facilitation...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167172Date: May 26, 2009
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