Noting that South Africa may be one of the few African countries that could contribute to mitigating climate change, the authors explore the impact of a carbon tax relative to alternative energy taxes...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4933Date: May 1, 2009Author:
Devarajan, Shantayanan ;
Go, Delfin Sia ;
Robinson, Sherman ;
Thierfelder, Karen E.
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is an offset mechanism designed to reduce the overall cost of implementing a given global target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in industrialized "Annex B" countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4931Date: May 1, 2009Author:
Rosendahl, Knut Einar ;
Strand, Jon
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Directors approved on April 30, 2009, two billion one hundred twenty-five million US dollars loan for the Kazakhstan South-West Roads Project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165660Date: April 30, 2009
This result profile talks about Southwest Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project in Kazakhstan. The project will help upgrade the trade route linking China to Russia and Western Europe through Kazakhstan,...
The purpose of this review is to provide Executive Directors with information on the findings of the Project Appraisal Documents (PAD) review exercise, which was carried out in November - December 2008....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48363Date: April 29, 2009
This report presents the problem, describes the analytical framework, the African and World context and the characteristics that need to be present for a responsible and effective urbanization. Chapter...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 44354Date: April 29, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved two key transport loans to China, the first on March 31 for one hundred fifty million US dollars supports the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165753Date: April 16, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved one hundred thirty million US dollars loan for the Brazil Federal District multisector management project on April...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166046Date: April 9, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on April 7, 2009, approved the Roads and Safety Improvement Project for Ukraine in the amount of four hundred million US...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165712Date: April 7, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank Group launched forty million US dollars multi-donor trust fund to help countries improve their competitiveness and reduce trading costs through measures...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167226Date: April 7, 2009
This press release announces on April 3, 2009, that the representatives of the World Bank Group’s Board and Senior Management are visiting Iraq the following week to discuss the country’s investment potential...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169185Date: April 3, 2009
This press release announces that the World Bank’s Executive Board of Directors has approved additional financing of two hundred fifty-three million US dollars to enable the government of Kenya to complete...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165938Date: April 2, 2009
The purpose of the review of the 106 Policy and Human Resources Development (PHRD) Technical Assistance (TA) grants, which closed in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, is to provide feedback from grant implementation...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 48415Date: April 1, 2009
Much attention has focused on the impact of the current crisis on goods trade; hardly any on its impact on services trade. Using new trade data from the United States, and more aggregate data from other...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4917Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Borchert, Ingo ;
Mattoo, Aaditya
Over the past two decades, globalization, and more specifically the increased exposure to competition from low-price producers in China and India, has created a new economic environment for other emerging...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4894Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Fernandes, Ana Margarida ;
Paunov, Caroline
The goal of the paper is to provide a comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure development on growth in African countries. Based on econometric estimates for a sample of 136 countries from...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4914Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Calderon, Cesar
The Government of India decided to implement the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) to address poor maternal and child health outcomes in India and in direct response to the failure of the National Maternity...
Type: BriefReport#: 54084Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Bredenkamp, Caryn
Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of the request-offer negotiating process. This...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4903Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Gootiiz, Batshur ;
Mattoo, Aaditya
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