This economic update highlights the following in its overview: Aceh's non-oil and gas economy grew by 7.4 percent in 2007; although they still account for more than one quarter of Aceh's economy, oil and...
This paper examines the determinants of child nutritional status in seven provinces of China during the 1990s, focusing specifically on the role of two areas of public policy, namely health system reforms...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4587Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Bredenkamp,Caryn
This paper examines whether infrastructure investment has contributed to East Asia's economic growth using both a growth accounting framework and cross-country regressions. For most of the variables used,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4589Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Straub,Stephane ;
Vellutini,Charles ;
Warlters,Michael Ian
That's right! There really are 100 million potential customers waiting for readers. Data show that 45 percent of Indonesian people do not have access to sanitation services. That's more than 100 million...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46080Date: April 1, 2008
This survey reviews the existing macro-level empirical literature on the link between infrastructure and development outcomes in a critical light. After providing a general framework that casts the relevant...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4590Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Straub,Stephane
This handbook provides clear and concise information on government export procedures in a user-friendly format suited to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) with little export experience. These include...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44203Date: April 1, 2008
The petroleum sector briefing notes up to this issue have focused on upstream exploration and production. But crude oil has to be traded, refined, and marketed before it can be used. This note describes...
Overall support for the pedestrian environment, or walk ability, has grown increasingly important as the world urbanizes and motorized modes threaten to displace or constrain travel on foot. This concern...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 44904Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Montgomery,Brittany ;
Roberts, Peter
Developing countries dedicate a considerable share of total infrastructure investment to roads. The adoption in 2000 of the Millennium Development Goals and an increasing emphasis on justifying road investments...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 44542Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Odoki, Jennaro B ;
Ahmed, Farhad ;
Taylor, Gary ;
Okello, Sunday A
Wolesi Jirga or the Lower House of Parliament on March 15, 2008, approved the national budget for the Solar Year 1387. In the new fiscal year, the ordinary budget has been fixed at 65.36 billion Afghanis...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 91531Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Crow,Benjamin Edward ;
Zia,Abdul Raouf
In an increasingly global marketplace, commerce is not limited by borders. Instead, trade depends on the ability to get goods to market, even as communities rely on transportation networks to connect them...
This paper examines the distribution of climate change impacts across the 16 agro-ecological zones in Africa using data from the Food and Agriculture Organization combined with economic survey data from...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4599Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Seo,Sungno Niggol ;
Mendelsohn,Robert ;
Dinar,Ariel ;
Hassan, Rashid ;
Kurukulasuriya,Pradeep H.
Using individual level employment data from Bangladesh, this paper presents empirical evidence on the relative importance of farm and urban linkages for rural nonfarm employment. The econometric results...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4611Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Deichmann,Uwe Klaus ;
Shilpi,Forhad J. ;
Vakis,Renos
Effective billing and collection systems are a critical component for ensuring the viability of a service provider. Improving billing and collection activities has an immediate impact on the revenue streams...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44119Date: April 1, 2008
Vietnam electricity corporation (EVN) intends to build Trung Son hydroelectric power dam at the upstream head of Ma River. The construction will affect the living of local residents. A research needs to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59937Date: March 31, 2008
This press release announces that the World Bank approved four hundred fifty million US dollars for Railway Trade and Transport Facilitation Project for Azerbaijan that will improve railway services in...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163659Date: March 27, 2008
The overarching objective of this paper is to provide a coherent strategic framework to guide the World Bank's assistance in support of regional integration and regional programs in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 43022Date: March 18, 2008
Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4558Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Gonzalez,Julio A. ;
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
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