This Results Profile talks about turning Croatia’s ports into regional gateways. Croatia is famous for its coastline, stretching more than five hundred kilometers along picturesque nooks and crannies,...
This press release announces that the World Bank approved three hundred sixty-two million US dollars assistance package to the Indian state of Orissa designed to improve the state’s road network and its...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163783Date: September 30, 2008
This press release announces that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the Amman solid waste management project for Jordan in the amount of twenty-five million US dollars on September...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163744Date: September 30, 2008
The purpose of this note is to highlight the key findings of an assessment of non-tariff measures (NTMs) on goods trade in the East African Community (EAC), and identify priorities for a second stage of...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 45708Date: September 29, 2008
Rising food and fuel prices may negatively impact human development in four dimensions: by increasing poverty; worsening nutrition; reducing the utilization of education and health services; and depleting...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45652Date: September 26, 2008Author:
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Del Ninno,Carlo ;
Tesliuc,Emil Daniel
This Ad Hoc Liaison Committee (AHLC) report takes stock of further progress on the three parallel conditions for Palestinian economic revival, Palestinian Authority (PA) reforms, donor aid and Israeli...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51943Date: September 22, 2008
This report is the executive summary of the Environmental Assessment (EA hereafter) for the Guizhou Cultural and Natural Heritage Development and Management Project (Project hereafter), partly funded by...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48100Date: September 18, 2008
National roads carry over 70 percent of the traffic in Sri Lanka. Uncontrolled roadside development, years of neglect, and poor road maintenance, have resulted in low travel speeds and poor levels of service....
This issue of the China Urban Development Quarterly includes the following headings: earthquake recovery and reconstruction: international experience and best practice workshop; World Bank response to...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 45569Date: September 7, 2008
The consultations on development and climate change held at United Stateson September 4, 2008 on the strategic framework for the World Bank Group include following headings: feedback to the strategic framework;...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76408Date: September 4, 2008
This study examines the factors responsible for the growth of transport sector carbon dioxide emissions in 20 Latin American and Caribbean countries during 1980-2005 by decomposing the emissions growth...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4734Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Shrestha, Ashish
Internal migration plays an important role in moderating regional differences in well-being. This paper analyzes migrants' choice of destination, using Census and Living Standard Surveys data from Nepal....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4728Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Fafchamps,Marcel ;
Shilpi,Forhad J.
An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Sub-Saharan Africa ranks consistently at the bottom...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4712Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Calderon,Cesar ;
Serven,Luis
The Highway Development and Management Model (HDM-4) is a software system for evaluating options for investing in road transport infrastructure. Worldwide, the HDM-4 model is most commonly used as a basis...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 46319Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Archondo-Callao,Rodrigo
The authors explore the relationship between transaction costs and generalized trust. Using panel data from 2,100 households in 135 rural communities of the Philippines, the paper shows that where transaction...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4706Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Chase,Robert S. ;
Labonne,Julien Bernard
The study is based on a new specialized dataset generated for the road sector contracts of Bank-financed projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is organized as follows: Chapter two describes the data and a...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 46728Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Alexeeva,Victoria ;
Padam,Gouthami ;
Queiroz,Cesar Augusto
The paper focuses on ex-post impact evaluations, meaning that one is evaluating impacts after an intervention has happened and had time to have impacts. By 'impact evaluation' the authors mean that an...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 47438Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Van De Walle,Dominique
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