This report presents the World Bank Group's (WBG) Sustainable Infrastructure Action Plan (SIAP), FY09-11. It follows up on the Infrastructure Action Plan (IAP), FY04-07 to revitalize the institution's...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 43692Date: July 14, 2008
Many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa see Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) as a foundation of long-term economic development. The region has been very successful in increasing access to...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 44628Date: July 8, 2008
Africa presents a major infrastructure deficit, lagging well behind the average for low-income countries on most major indicators, by at least 20 percent. These gaps are particularly large for water, electricity...
Equity emerged as the principal theme during the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) week session 'climate change, growth and poverty,' where presenters addressed the distributional consequences...
Type: BriefReport#: 45123Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Hull, Katy
This report is designed to provide policymakers with estimates of the likely outcomes of an array of potential changes in transportation sector policy. To this end, the report uses a variety of economy-wide...
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 40020Date: July 1, 2008
In 2003, the World Bank established the rural access index as one of several key diagnostic measures for the sector. The data has allowed assessment of access needs and monitoring of progress. In its advice...
Carbon labelling is being adopted by private firms as a mechanism for mitigating climate change. Such schemes are likely to have a significant impact on low-income country exports due to the need for transportation...
This note states that private activity in transport was strong in 2007, following an upward trend over the last three years. Although lower than in 2006, the number of transport projects with private participation,...
The Worldwide Trade Indicators (WTI) database contains about 300 trade-related policy and outcome indicators for 210 countries. It is organized around five thematic categories, namely (i) trade policy,...
Type: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows StudyReport#: 46835Date: July 1, 2008
New initiatives to close the development gap and expand trade among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are at the forefront of the policy discussion. Countries in Southeast Asia...
Type: BriefReport#: 45151Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Wilson,John S. ;
Taylor,Benjamin J.
This report summarize on the burden of environmental policies within countries. Climate change policies will have distributional consequences across and within countries. Most of the current environmental...
Type: BriefReport#: 45119Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Savard,Luc
The 1996 World Bank strategy, sustainable transport, had as its pillars social, financial, economic, and environmental sustainability, acknowledging the likelihood of tradeoffs. This background paper was...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46792Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Amos,Paul Frederick
In this context, a recent World Bank report investigates how Bolivia can achieve greater diversification in the nontraditional sectors through higher compositeness. The report identifies the main constraints...
Type: BriefReport#: 46978Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Sakho,Yaye Seynabou ;
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar
Multidimensional auctions are a natural and practical solution when auctioneers pursue more than one objective in their public-private-partnership transactions. However, it is difficult to achieve auction...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4665Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Guasch, Jose-Luis ;
Iimi,Atsushi ;
Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes
This document is the executive summary of Environmental Assessment (EA) for the World Bank financed Yichang to Badong Section of the Shanghai-Chengdu Inter-Provincial Expressway Project. The document provides...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 44993Date: July 1, 2008
Policies on municipal actions to promote local competitiveness have typically focused in three areas: i) providing infrastructure (transportation, telecommunications, water & sanitation, etc.); ii) improving...
Type: BriefReport#: 46975Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Zhang,Ming
Infrastructure is the engine for economic growth. The international donor community has spent about 70-100 billion U.S. dollars on infrastructure development in developing countries every year. However,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4662Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Iimi,Atsushi
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