The country profile for Belarus 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#: 47255Date: January 1, 2008
The country profile for Tajikistan 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...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47257Date: January 1, 2008
Infrastructure plays a crucial role in economic development and enrichment of living standards. Various stages of economic development require different levels of infrastructure upgrades or enhancements...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 47156Date: January 1, 2008
This paper analyzes recent automotive investment in the Slovak Republic and shows how the development of the automotive industry has influenced growth in productivity and output in the broader economy....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57728Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Jakubiak, Malgorzata ;
Kolesar, Peter ;
Izvorski,Ivailo V. ;
Kurekova,Lucia
The operations policy on Development Policy Lending (DPL), approved by the Board in August 2004, requires that the Bank systematically analyze whether specific country policies supported by an operation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 56168Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Mani,Muthukumara S.
This paper reviews the evidence about the effects of urbanization and cities on productivity and economic growth in developing countries using a consistent theoretical framework. Just like in developed...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57712Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Duranton,Gilles
Spatial inequality is an important feature of many developing countries that seems to increase with economic growth and development. At the same time, there seems to be little consensus on the causes of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57716Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Kim,Sukkoo
As the macroeconomic environment strengthens in Uruguay, investment climate/microeconomic constraints are gaining prominence. The economy has bounced back from the deep economic crisis of 1999 - 2002 and...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 68762Date: January 1, 2008
Despite extraordinarily difficult circumstances during 2007, Afghanistan has made remarkable achievements notably: more girls are at school than at any time in Afghanistans history, child mortality has...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 91530Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Crow,Benjamin Edward ;
Zia,Abdul Raouf
The strategic objective of the 2007 annual meeting was to launch the Second Development Plan (DP2) and lay the foundation for its implementation in 2008 and beyond. In this regard, the main theme of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45195Date: January 1, 2008
This paper explores the role of export costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa. The authors claim that the marketing costs that emerge when the commercialization of export crops requires...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4488Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Balat,Jorge Francisco ;
Brambilla,Maria Irene ;
Porto,Guido
Apollo Tyres is India's second-largest tire manufacturing company and a local business success story. Its revenues have doubled since 2002, and the company is expanding on a global scale, completing a...
This note summarizes recent research on urban transport in 14 large African cities performed at the World Bank under the aegis of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic project. The objective of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44980Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Kumar, Ajay ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Barrett,Fanny
This paper reviews the linkages between urbanization and economic development. It articulates the relationship between urban density and potential increases in productivity, through specialization, complementarities...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57719Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Quigley,John M.
Phase one of the formal global consultations were held from April 1 through July 15, 2008, on a draft concept and issues paper (the SFCCD). An informal process of internal and external consultations began...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76423Date: January 1, 2008
This paper starts with a brief perspective on urban transport in developing countries, followed by a detailed presentation of an overall framework for making projects in this sector. Additional details...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 43026Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Mitric,Slobodan
Young people are not only the future, they are also the now. More than one fifth of the world's population is between the ages of 12 and 24, with 1.3 billion young people living in developing countries....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47116Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Kuznicka,Anna
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region is home to an ethnically, culturally, and socially diverse population of 473 million occupying 23,370,720 sq. km of land area; the Region overall is rich in natural...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42148Date: January 1, 2008
The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4461Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Mattoo,Aaditya
The country profile for Georgia 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#: 47256Date: January 1, 2008
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