This newsletter looks at how Bolivia is implementing an innovative public-private approach to increase rural electricity access to extremely remote areas via Solar Home Systems (SHS) and how Novel Medium-term...
Type: BriefReport#: 39607Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Goldmark,Susan G. ;
Reiche, Killian ;
Rysankova,Dana
This brief focuses on road infrastructure in Kosovo. The majority of the public spending on transport has been focused on the road sector, but expenditures have been focused on capital expenditures rather...
Over a two-year period, beginning in late 2004, the Nigerian federal government implemented one of the most ambitious port concessioning programs ever attempted. The success of this program resulted from...
Type: BriefReport#: 39798Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Leigland,James ;
Palsson, Gylfl
This study on Jharkhand in India addresses the challenges faced by that new state of India (founded in November 2000) to surmount adverse initial conditions of low average income, very high incidence of...
Type: Other Public Sector StudyReport#: 36437Date: March 1, 2007
The 26 December 2004 earthquake and tsunami, coming on top of three decades of violent conflict, have had a devastating impact on infrastructure and social dynamics in Aceh. The earthquake and tsunami...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 54301Date: March 1, 2007
AFTTR started incorporating HIV/AIDS activities into its projects from 2000, and initiated this assessment to review the process, results, and challenges of mainstreaming HIV/AIDS prevention activities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40953Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Do Sacramento,Jocelyne O. ;
Emah,Ekong
This concept paper defines a Country Development Partnership for Infrastructure (CDP-INFRA) between the Government of Thailand and the World Bank Group. The CDP-INFRA will be a knowledge-based partnership...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66428Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Liu,Zhi
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) has made substantial progress in economic reconstruction since the end of the war, but much more remains to be done to establish conditions for sustainable private sector-led...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69081Date: March 1, 2007
This paper investigates the role of services in the household response to trade reforms in Vietnam. The relative response of the households and income growth after a major trade liberalization in rice...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4180Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Aksoy,M. Ataman ;
Isik-Dikmelik,Aylin
In this paper the authors use a computable general equilibrium model of the Kazakhstan economy to assess the impact of accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), which encompasses (1) improved market...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4142Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Jensen,Jesper ;
Tarr,David
The Project has been classified category A by the World Bank in accordance with its safeguard policies (OP 4.01). An Environmental Assessment Report (EAR) has been prepared in order to identify the potential...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 39693Date: March 1, 2007
The idea of outsourcing road maintenance to micro and small enterprises under performance-based contracts has been successfully implemented in the Latin American region. It has been recognized as an effective...
Type: Country Infrastructure FrameworkReport#: 68962Date: March 1, 2007
This guidance note offers a practical guide to integrating social analysis and disability-inclusive development into sector and thematic projects and programs of the World Bank. Based on the social analysis...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39385Date: March 1, 2007
The World Bank relies in part on economic benefit estimates to evaluate the merits of investment projects. Recent lending operations for revenue administrations in Vietnam have led to some rethinking of...
Type: BriefReport#: 39623Date: March 1, 2007Author:
De Wulf, Luc ;
Le,Tuan Minh ;
Pham,Duc Minh
The authors examine the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. They are interested in threshold effects,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4152Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Francois,Joseph ;
Manchin,Miriam
This newsletter looks at Output-based aid (OBA) as it pertains to the telecommunication sector of Uganda. Specifically, how to bring communication services to the rural areas. The newsletter touches on...
Type: BriefReport#: 39610Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Ampah,Mavis A. ;
Navas Sabater,Juan Francisco
This report provides a number of options for top-down (supply-oriented) and bottom-up (demand-oriented) policies that could be applied by the Ukrainian government to support the Information and Communication...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39606Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Kumar,Geeta ;
De Gouvello,Christophe
This study is a small-scale follow-up to an earlier World Bank study that analyzed the market failure of LPG in Nigeria and developed a roadmap to develop the use of LPG in that country to its full potential....
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 70657Date: February 28, 2007
On February 22, 2007, the World Bank today approved a US$25 million Transport Project for Albania that will finance the construction of the 26 kilometer section between Milot and Rreshen, will test performance...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169504Date: February 22, 2007
Under-pricing of diesel and kerosene continues to cause major financial problems for Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), which is losing over Tk 2 billion monthly. Global forecasts suggest that oil...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 68379Date: February 18, 2007
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