The policy note focused on the role of the public sector to improve livestock marketing. The note's three main recommendations are; (a) provision of matching grants to livestock exporters for promotion...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48418Date: December 31, 2007Author:
Babiker,Idris Babiker Shag
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: program councel news, technical advisory panel news, notable PPIAF products,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41723Date: December 31, 2007
This Sector Strategy Implementation Update (SSIU) is divided into two parts with the first providing an overview of the Bank's strategic focus and the delivery of the work program. Part one highlights...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 42128Date: December 20, 2007
The second order restructuring of the Mekong Transport and Flood Protection Project of Vietnam seeks the approval of the Regional Vice President for amendments to the Development Credit Agreement (DCA)...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 42021Date: December 20, 2007
On December 20, 2007, the World Bank Board of Directors approved today a 20 million dollars interest-free credit directed to rural areas of
great productive potential and, at the same time, the poorest...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169617Date: December 20, 2007
Mali is a vast, semi-arid, landlocked country of low population density and few natural resources. But it does have some un- or under-tapped assets: these include the Niger River with very considerable...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 41746Date: December 12, 2007
The Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Guidelines are technical reference documents with general and industry specific examples of Good International Industry Practice (GIIP). When one or more members...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112796Date: December 10, 2007
This overview of China's transport sector report is produced in the context of the Bank's strategy update but is focused on the particular circumstances of China and the ways in which China is endeavoring...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 42798Date: December 9, 2007
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: December 3, 2007
This paper presents estimates of indicators of direct and indirect intervention in agriculture by the Chilean government since 1960, drawing on the methodology in Anderson et al. (2008). To put those indicators...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 55978Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Valdes, Alberto ;
Jara Torres,Esteban Andres
This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4449Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Sakho,Yaye Seynabou
Improving energy efficiency (EE) is one of the most promising approaches for achieving cost-effective global greenhouse gases (GHG) reductions. However, it is severely underrepresented in the Clean Development...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 47734Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Figueres, Christiana ;
Philips, Michael
The population of Colombia in 2005 was around 41 million. The annual rate of population growth accelerated from 2 percent in the 1940s to almost 3.4 percent in the 1950s, it fell to 2.8 percent between...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 55979Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Guterman,Lia
The economic performance of the Philippines has lagged behind most other developing countries in Asia. Whereas the Philippine economy and its agriculture sector performed moderately well in the 1960s and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56077Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Intal,Ponciano S ;
Balisacan,Arsenio M. ;
David,Cristina
The Paying Taxes study is carried out as part of the World Bank's overall Doing Business report which, this year, was published on 26 September 2007. This is the third year in which tax data has been collected...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 41951Date: December 1, 2007
This study focuses on the period 1955-2005. In the early part of that era, despite an articulation of concern for the rural population, a policy emphasis on industrialization and "import substitution"...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56033Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Cassing,James H. ;
Nassar,Nagla Saad ;
Siam,Gamal ;
Moussa, Hoda
Beans are one of the four agricultural commodities commonly known as 'sensitive products' in Mexico whose tariff phase-out period under NAFTA will end in 2008. The other products are sugar, dairy, and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 64265Date: December 1, 2007
This note is conceived in an environment where there was some fear that the final phase of opening under North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will create pressure on local producers of corn, beans...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 78516Date: December 1, 2007Author:
Nash, Josh ;
Caballero,Jose Maria ;
Larson,Donald F. ;
Brandriss,Peter M.
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