The Government of Peru has launched an aggressive second phase of infrastructure concessions covering all sectors, including transport, rural telephony, gas, energy and water and sanitation. To help inform...
Type: Economic Updates and ModelingReport#: 32674Date: June 30, 2006
On June 29, 2006, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a credit to the Government of Iraq to rehabilitate highly
damaged highways and rural roads and reestablish critical river...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166028Date: June 29, 2006
This study for 'reform of the regulatory framework, spectrum aspects' is a continuation of various earlier studies done in 2005 like: sector overview and key input to spectrum policy; refarming the mobile...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 71369Date: June 27, 2006
This paper is intended to explain the factors underlying the stellar growth record that has led to Armenia's emergence as the Caucasian Tiger and to provide policy advice to the Armenian authorities to...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 32770Date: June 27, 2006
In the mountainous Kyrgyz Republic, where 65 percent of the population lives in rural areas, the World Bank is spearheading a project that could have a lasting institutional impact. Over the last two years,...
The road safety situation in Ukraine is serious and deteriorating. In the context of substantial and continual administrative and political change since independence, rapidly increasing freight and passenger...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73058Date: June 26, 2006
The road safety situation in the Republic of Armenia is serious and deteriorating. In the context of substantial and continual administrative change since independence, increasing motor vehicle traffic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73057Date: June 26, 2006
On June 22, 2006, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US87.3 million dollars International Development Association credit to support Ethiopia’s continued effort to restore and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169167Date: June 22, 2006
Since the signing of the Peace Accords in 1996, Guatemala has made substantial progress in consolidating peace and democracy. While progress in socioeconomic development has been uneven, there have been...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 36459Date: June 22, 2006
On June 21, 2005, with the approval today of a US32 million dollars grant to finance essential road infrastructure in rural areas, the World
Bank, in collaboration with the Government of Nepal, hopes to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165449Date: June 21, 2006
On June 20, 2006, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Council of Governors adopted resolution number seventy four. It is resolves that schedule A to the convention is hereby amended by reclassifying...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 82447Date: June 20, 2006
On June 20, 2006, the World Bank Group today approved an Emergency Infrastructure Grant for US30 million dollars to Liberia which will help the government rapidly reconstruct parts of the country’s devastated...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168797Date: June 20, 2006
On June 15, 2006, the World Bank Board of Executive Director today approved an International Development Association (IDA) grant of
US15 million dollars to assist the Government of Guinea-Bissau in the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167973Date: June 15, 2006
This sector report on Challenges and Priorities for Rural Development analyzes why Upper Egypt has lagged behind the rest of the country and to help the Government of Egypt and stakeholders to define a...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 36432Date: June 15, 2006
India has become, in purchasing power parity terms, the fourth largest economy in the world. India's economic growth since 1980 has been among the most rapid-and India managed its one incipient crisis...
Type: Development Policy Review (DPR)Report#: 34580Date: June 15, 2006
This is a report of a consultative workshop on transport sector results and impact measurement, held in Mt Amanzi, Hartbeespoort, South Africa. The workshop was organized through a partnership involving...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45134Date: June 14, 2006Author:
Njenga, Peter
The contents of this report are as follows: 1) partnership to support the national target programmes; 2) gender action partnership; 3) International Support Group (ISG) environment; 4) people's partnership...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 50242Date: June 10, 2006
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#: 84185Date: June 8, 2006
This report discusses the remarks delivered by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank. He discusses on key challenges to support developing countries in meeting their energy demands, to help poor...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101347Date: June 7, 2006Author:
Wolfowitz,Paul
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