The Highway Design and Maintenance Standard Model (HDM) is a computer program for analyzing the total transport costs of alternative road improvement and maintenance strategies through life-cycle economic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84184Date: October 9, 2008Author:
Archondo-Callao,Rodrigo
This partial transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) held on Tuesday,...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 153657Date: October 7, 2008
This press release announces that countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will suffer greater than average effects of global warming, with devastating consequences for the environment and economy,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163362Date: October 7, 2008
The emergence of city-regions in England offers some useful lessons for the World Bank partners in developing countries. The city-region approach, as applied in England touches upon issues of decentralization,...
Type: BriefReport#: 46441Date: October 6, 2008Author:
Larkin, Kieran ;
Marshall, Adam
Some of the headings included in this issue of the World Bank office in Bosnia and Herzegovina newsletter are: Doing business 2009: Bosnia and Herzegovina ranked 119th among 181 countries - what does it...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46968Date: October 1, 2008
This report summarizes the World Bank's contribution to implementing the Almaty program of action and its understanding of the causes and potential remedies of the trade competitiveness consequences of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45790Date: October 1, 2008
This paper arose from the perception that a gap existed between the practice of project design and the formal Bank strategies for transport and urban sectors as stated in the cited reports. Formal strategies...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 46729Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Mitric,Slobodan
This economic update highlights the following in its overview: growth in Aceh's non-oil and gas economy slowed in the first half of 2008 as the reconstruction effort neared an end; the agricultural sector...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46311Date: October 1, 2008
The scale of investment needed to slow greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies rely heavily on markets and private capital....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4761Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Larson,Donald F. ;
Ambrosi,Philippe ;
Dinar,Ariel ;
Rahman,Shaikh Mahfuzur ;
Entler,Rebecca G.
An update of the World Bank Group's privatization database shows that in 2007 privatizations in developing countries amounted to US$133 billion a record in nominal terms. The high value came from partial...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 49115Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Kikeri,Sunita ;
Phipps-Ebeler,Verena
Output-based aid (OBA), or performance-based grants, can be used to help target services to the poor. Under OBA schemes, service providers are compensated only after delivery of a specified output, such...
Africa has traditionally depended on official development assistance to meet its infrastructure needs. But a growing share of the region's infrastructure finance is now coming from nontraditional sources....
Type: BriefReport#: 47213Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Foster,Vivien
Today, inclusive development is a critical agenda at the World Bank as well as in international development circles. Inclusive and sustainable globalization is a core vision of the World Bank to overcome...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 124045Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Snider,Harold Wexler ;
Takeda,Nazumi
In 1994, India signed the Trade Related Intellectual Property (TRIPs) agreement, which obligated the country to dramatically strengthen its protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR)....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47524Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Dutta,Antara ;
Sharma,Siddharth
In 2006, which China named the "Year of Africa," it quadrupled its investment commitments to infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, to more than $7 billion. In 2007 China committed another $4.5 billion....
Worldwide there is a high, and in many cases growing demand for wild plants and animals and products made from them. Wild species are used as the source of a wide variety of goods, including foods, medicines,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46791Date: October 1, 2008
This press release announces that more help is on the way for millions of Nepalis living in food insecure areas where problems have been compounded by rising food prices, high fuel prices, drought, and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164898Date: September 30, 2008
This press release announces that the World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) welcomed an initiative launched by twelve countries in the Americas to promote free trade in the Western Hemisphere...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163486Date: September 30, 2008
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