This knowledge review synthesizes the recent operational experience of seven developing countries in regional policy with lagging areas, with a focus on World Bank engagement. It provides a diagnostic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69703Date: May 20, 2009Author:
Hon,Vivian Y. N. ;
Rojchaichaninthorn,Jeep ;
Schmidt,Emily M.
This report aims to strengthen the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) aspects of HIV/AIDS components in road projects. Result-based M&E helps decision makers assess whether and how goals are being achieved...
Type: Other Health StudyReport#: 44386Date: May 19, 2009
In May 2008, the government of Burundi requested Bank assistance to review the situation of the petroleum market, and evaluate the existing pricing mechanism. Following three Bank missions, a draft report...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 76009Date: May 19, 2009
This press release announces that cities and their residents are the main drivers of global warming, yet also offer the best means for slowing the rate and impact of climate change, according to the 2009...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165416Date: May 15, 2009
The report presented a detailed assessment of the infrastructure Public Private Partnership (PPP) financing market in Pakistan, including key financing gaps as existent in 2007. This note builds on the...
Type: Country Infrastructure FrameworkReport#: 68347Date: May 14, 2009
This Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) was designed in close coordination with all stakeholders, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), and provides a framework for Bank support for FY10-FY12....
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 48404Date: May 13, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank on May 12, 2009, approved sixty-two million two hundred thousand US dollars IDA credit to Bangladesh, designed to improve urban air quality through measures...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165654Date: May 12, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank on May 12, 2009, approved twenty-five million US dollars IDA credit to help Pakistan improve its trade and transport logistics. The Second trade and transport...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165763Date: May 12, 2009
Policymakers in developing countries are increasingly recognizing the necessity of developing strategies and identifying specific investment programs to reduce spatial differences in living standards within...
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 70398Date: May 5, 2009
Infrastructure investment is a central part of the stimulus plans of the Latin America and Caribbean Region (LAC) as it confronts the growing financial crisis. This paper estimates the potential effects...
Type: BriefReport#: 53541Date: May 3, 2009Author:
Tuck,Laura ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Andres,Luis Alberto
Vietnam's transport sector plays an important role in its socioeconomic development. Passenger transport helps meets daily needs and contributes significantly to tourist service development while freight...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 58106Date: May 1, 2009
Infrastructure investment can play an important role as part of fiscal stimulus measures to pull developing countries out of the crisis. In previous crises, lack of timely action resulted in significant...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 58941Date: May 1, 2009
Climate scientists have identified global warming as the most important environmental issue of our time, but it has taken over 20 years for the problem to penetrate the public discourse in even the most...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4940Date: May 1, 2009Author:
Norgaard,Kari Marie
This note provides an update of the sources and uses of International Development Association (IDA) during FY08, the last year of the IDA14 replenishment period (FY06-08), and also summarizes the use of...
This report describes and explains how, in the period 1990-2008, China's railway sector has contributed and responded to the incredibly challenging transport demands generated by China's economic development,...
Energy from the sun is abundant and free. Solar energy is in essence electromagnetic radiation emitted from the sun. Earth's climate, hydrologic systems, and ecosystems all derive from the sun. Other forms...
Type: BriefReport#: 49253Date: May 1, 2009Author:
Ahmad,Reyaz A.
The report finds that the Inland Waterway Transport (IWT) sector in China has great economic importance and unrealized potential with a fundamentally sound institutional framework. It also considers that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 54962Date: May 1, 2009
This report has been prepared by TERI-Europe for the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in accordance with terms of reference agreed in July 2008. The report has the following objectives: 1) to determine...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52192Date: May 1, 2009Author:
Kumar, Ritu ;
Siddy,Daniel
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