To be credible, any plan for scaling up infrastructure in Africa must rest on a thorough evaluation of how fiscal resources are allocated and financed. Because in every plausible scenario the public sector...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71815Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Smits,Karlis ;
Foster,Vivien
In many developing countries (both poor and middle-income), business owners complain that tax compliance costs (i.e. cost of preparing, handling, and submitting required tax forms to the country's tax...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46178Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Coolidge,Jacqueline ;
Ilic,Domagoj ;
Kisunko,Gregory
In the 1990s, Zimbabwe's economic growth began to slow following a balance of payments crisis and repeated droughts. By the late 1990s Zimbabwe's economy was in serious trouble driven by economic mismanagement,...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 43855Date: June 1, 2008
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Directors approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of thirty million US dollars for Niger to increase and sustain access...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163781Date: May 29, 2008
This press release announces that the World Bank Board of Directors approved ten million US dollars grant for the Republic of Haiti to help the government respond to the food price crisis and help it continue...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164063Date: May 29, 2008
Some of the headings included in this issue of the daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. durable goods orders (ex-transport) jump in April; German inflation...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61047Date: May 28, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Streifel,Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige,Annette I.
This press release announces that the World Bank has today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of one hundred ninety US dollars for the Second Central Transport Corridor Project...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163976Date: May 27, 2008
Despite a diminishing role in industrial countries, the manufacturing sector continues to be an engine of economic growth in most developing countries. This article surveys the evidence on the determinants...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76785Date: May 27, 2008Author:
Deichmann,Uwe Klaus ;
Lall,Somik V. ;
Redding,Stephen James ;
Venables,Anthony J.
This press release announces that the World Bank Group launched a new transport business strategy for 2008-2012 that will help partner countries establish the governance, strategies, policies and services...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164641Date: May 21, 2008
This Interim Strategy Note (ISN) presents the support to Togo planned by the World Bank for the period May 2008-June 2010. In May 2002, Togo fell into non-accrual status with the World Bank, as a consequence...
Type: Interim Strategy NoteReport#: 43257Date: May 16, 2008
This Annual Progress Report (APR) is the first assessment of progress made in the implementation of policies outlined in the Second Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy (GPRS II), covers progress in 2006,...
Type: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)Report#: 42865Date: May 13, 2008
This press release announces that the World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick highlighted the significant progress made by Colombia in addressing economic, political and social challenges, and reaffirmed...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164814Date: May 8, 2008
Some of the headings included in this issue of the daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: European services activity surprises to the upside in April; European...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61034Date: May 6, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Streifel,Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige,Annette I.
The objective of the Shanxi Coal Bed Methane Development Project is to increase the production and utilization of CBM/CMM to replace coal as a fuel for thermal use and to reduce air pollutants associated...
This paper reviews recent progress and indicators of trade facilitation in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The findings show that import and export costs vary considerably...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4615Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Shepherd , Ben ;
Wilson,John S.
Balochistan offers some of the best assets for development. Balochistan is generously bestowed with natural and locational resources. It possesses the largest land area of any province of Pakistan, proving...
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 40345Date: May 1, 2008
Refining is a capital-intensive industry in a market driven by divergent forces - cleaner fuels to address local air pollution; greater fuel efficiency against the backdrop of record oil prices; and steadily...
This paper aims at presenting the methodological lessons of corridor performance measurement carried out in Africa. Based on current experience, the authors conclude that, while road drivers' trip diaries...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 44206Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Raballand, Gael ;
Marteau, Jean-Francois ;
Kunaka,
Private participation in roads revived strongly in developing countries in 2005-06. The activity was concentrated in green field projects and in Asia and Latin America. The main reason for the revival...
Type: BriefReport#: 44083Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Queiroz,Cesar Augusto ;
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre
In 2006, private participation in infrastructure continued its recovery for the third consecutive year from the steep downturn of the late 1990s. Activity was more evenly spread across all developing regions....
Type: BriefReport#: 44396Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Mastle, Clemencia Torres de ;
Izaguirre, Ada Kari
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