Traffic at Chittagong Port, which handles 90 percent of Bangladesh's foreign trade, has been growing rapidly. The volume of containers handled has increased by over 10 percent a year over the last decade...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 68380Date: February 15, 2007
The Government of Moldova's Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (EGPRSP) lays out an ambitious plan for sustaining growth and poverty reduction and reshaping the government to meet the...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 37933Date: February 12, 2007
This Country Assistance Strategy Progress Report (CASPR) assesses progress in implementing the FY05-08 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Armenia, discussed by the Board on June 10, 2004 (Report No....
Type: CAS Progress ReportReport#: 38585Date: February 9, 2007
The objective of the Costa Rica Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate constraints on growth of the private sector in Costa Rica using a survey of 343 manufacturing firms known as the Investment...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 35424Date: February 6, 2007
The Highway Design and Maintenance Standard Model (HDM) is a computer program for analyzing the total transport costs of alternative road improvement and maintenance strategies through life-cycle economic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84186Date: February 2, 2007
Some of the headings included in this issue of the daily brief economics and financial market commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. job gains halve from December to January; and among emerging markets.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60413Date: February 2, 2007Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Streifel,Shane S. ;
DeKleine, Annette
In this issue of Development in Partnership : Country Development Partnerships for Infrastructure (CDP-INFRA), Health (CDP-H), and Education (CDP-ED). New World Bank study examines growth prospects of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41079Date: February 1, 2007
Decentralization is the transfer of responsibilities from the central government to subnational agencies empowered to act as increasingly autonomous entities within their geographical and functional domains....
Type: BriefReport#: 38491Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Muzzini,Elisa
The survey on Lao private sector and investment climate covered 303 firms in six sectors and seven provinces (Vientiane City, Oudomxay, Luang Prabang, Luangnamtha, Xayaboury, Savannakhet, and Champassack)....
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 39237Date: February 1, 2007
In June 2006 the EU and the countries of South East Europe signed an agreement on the establishment of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) by 2010. The ECAA will amount to a full extension of the EU-internal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42006Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Muller-Jentsch,Daniel
Data collection is expensive. Each data item collected requires time, effort, and money to collect, store, retrieve, and use. The first rule of data collection is that data should never be collected because...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39139Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Bennett,Christopher R. ;
Chamorro Gine,Marcela Alondra ;
Chen, Chen ;
Flintsch, Gerardo W. ;
Solminiihac, Hernan de
This study forms part of a broader study by the Oil and Gas Policy Division (COCPO) to identify reasons for the Liquid Petroleum Gas market (LPG market) failure in some selected countries, including...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 70658Date: February 1, 2007
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) is on the mend. Over the past 14 years, infrastructure and basic services have been restored to almost prewar levels, while the country and its people have made substantial...
While most economists assume that aid is fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The authors study recipient government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4133Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Mu,Ren ;
Van De Walle,Dominique
This Rural Investment Climate Assessment (RICA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the investment climate. Using data from the recently completed RIC Survey, the RICA identifies the key constraints...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38777Date: February 1, 2007
An update of the World Bank Group's Privatization Database shows that privatization in developing countries continued to pick up in 2004 and 2005, with 400 transactions worth US$90 billion. Apart from...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 38967Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Burman,Amit ;
Kikeri,Sunita
There is tremendous potential for trade to play a key role in driving and sustaining growth and poverty reduction in Kenya. There is significant potential for greater participation in international markets...
Type: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows StudyReport#: 37688Date: February 1, 2007
With the conclusion of the CEFTA 2006 free trade agreement among the Western Balkan countries and with trade of goods between them and the EU largely liberalized, regional integration has progressed significantly...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42008Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Muller-Jentsch,Daniel
On January 22, 2007, Hartwig Schafer, Acting Vice President for the Africa Region, visited Sudan from January 13-16 to take stock of
progress in implementing the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169467Date: January 22, 2007
The third Annual Progress Report (APR) on the implementation of Zambia's 2002 Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for 2005-2006 comprises the Government's Economic Report 2005, complemented by additional...
Type: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)Report#: 38307Date: January 19, 2007
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