Using detailed geographical and household survey data from Nepal, this article investigates the relationship between isolation and subjective welfare. This is achieved by examining how distance to markets...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4535Date: February 1, 2008Author:
Fafchamps,Marcel ;
Shilpi,Forhad J.
Africa lags well behind other developing regions in infrastructure access. The limited gains of the 1990s have not increased much in the 2000s. There is clear evidence that many countries are failing to...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 69087Date: February 1, 2008
China's economic growth has begun to inch down from its record rates earlier in 2007, while food prices are lifting inflation. The global outlook has weakened and is uncertain, but China is likely to grow...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 42794Date: February 1, 2008
In this issue: infrastructure and growth in developing countries; focus: finance for all? Policies and pitfalls in expanding access; exports and productivity: comparable evidence for 14 countries; local...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 48385Date: February 1, 2008
The importance of the tertiary road sector in contributing to economic development and poverty alleviation efforts cannot be understated. In Albania, forty-nine percent of rural producers have stated that...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 43979Date: February 1, 2008
China has been the most successful developing country in this modern era of globalization. Since initiating economic reform after 1978, its economy has expanded at a steady rate over 8 percent per capita,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4531Date: February 1, 2008Author:
Dollar,David R.
Projects involving community participation often give communities responsibility to identify, prioritize, plan and implement small-scale investments. While the approach generates high ownership and relevance,...
Type: BriefReport#: 44853Date: February 1, 2008Author:
Mcsweeney,Catherine S. ;
Remy, Marisa
This press release announces the liberalization of services trade could produce large benefits for developed and developing countries alike, says the Handbook of International Trade in Services, produced...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163441Date: January 31, 2008
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: regulator to oversee rescue package for troubled bond insurers; tentative...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60925Date: January 24, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Streifel,Shane S. ;
De Kleine Feige,Annette I.
The Argentina, Rosario Port Infrastructure Project will produce improvements to the rail and highway accesses to the City of Rosario, a major Argentinean port for the trans-shipment of grain and other...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 42324Date: January 24, 2008
Tobacco is Malawi’s main export commodity, relied upon for economic growth and to alleviate poverty. Strong growth of about 6 percent per annum in the agricultural sector is needed to induce faster economic...
Type: ReportReport#: 158772Date: January 23, 2008Author:
Nucifora,Antonio ;
Nthara,Khwima Lawrence ;
Hayward,Natasha ;
Hiwa,Stanley ;
Lisulo,Angela S.
The Second Central Transport Corridor Repeater Project of Tanzania (CTCP2) has three components: (A) the Dar es Salaam Urban Transport component; (B) the Korogwe-Mkumbara-Same Trunk Road component; and...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 42234Date: January 23, 2008
Rural-urban migration is playing an increasingly important role in shaping the economic and demographic landscape of Chinese cities. Over the past two decades, China has transformed itself from a relatively...
Type: PublicationReport#: 42485Date: January 22, 2008Author:
Yusuf,Shahid ;
Saich , Tony
This press release announces the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a loan in the amount of up to eighteen million nine hundred thousand US dollars for a project to strengthen the capacity...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163654Date: January 15, 2008
This press release announces on January 10, 2008, that the World Bank approved IDA financing totaling two hundred forty-seven million US dollars to help Bangladesh recover from the dual shocks of the August...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164246Date: January 10, 2008
This press release announces on January 9, 2008, the rapid technological progress in developing countries has helped to raise incomes and reduce the share of people living in absolute poverty from 29 percent...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163407Date: January 9, 2008
This press release announces on January 9, 2008, that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors the day before approved a loan for Costa Rica in the amount of seventy-two million five hundred thousand...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163676Date: January 9, 2008
The country profile for Ukraine is based on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World Bank in 2008. The enterprise surveys focus on the many factors that shape the decisions of firms to invest....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47258Date: January 1, 2008
The main objective of the Country Environmental Analysis (CEA) in Nepal is to identify opportunities for enhancing the overall performance of select environmental management systems through improvements...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 38984Date: January 1, 2008
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