The Madagascar Transport Infrastructure Investment Project became effective on March 10, 2004. Since then, project implementation has encountered difficulties, there have been significant changes in the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 34788Date: December 14, 2005
This Technical Elaboration serves to clarify the text of the Agreement on Movement and Access of November 15, 2005, and references the understandings reached between the parties in the lead-up to the Agreement....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40450Date: December 2, 2005
The Philippines enjoys tremendous endowments of natural, and human resources that provide great potential for economic development and poverty reduction. However, overall development outcomes over the...
Type: Country Infrastructure FrameworkReport#: 31782Date: December 1, 2005
Emergency relief is still needed, but the burden of effort is now focused on reconstruction, and progress is being made on multiple fronts. In Aceh and Nias, great areas of urban landscape remain nothing...
Type: Development Policy Review (DPR)Report#: 35507Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Hellman, Joel ;
Mangkusubroto, Kuntoro ;
Said, Sudirman ;
Steer, Andrew D.
This review aims to identify ways of improving the structure and efficiency of the transport sector in Tonga. It seeks to provide a coherent and consistent analysis and evaluation, recommending appropriate...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 35237Date: December 1, 2005
The majority of Kabul's new migrants are informally housed. While this has prevented an even larger crisis of homelessness, informal development has led to legal and regulatory violations, including violations...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 37083Date: December 1, 2005
Kabul has grown at a rate of approximately 15 percent year since 1999 and its projected growth is 5 percent (2 percent migrants and 3 percent natural growth), representing 150,000 new people per year (including...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 37085Date: December 1, 2005
This paper examines industry concentration for the South African manufacturing sector over the 1972-1996 period for the three-digit industry classification. The paper documents both the high level of industry...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 38702Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Fedderke, Johannes Wolfgang ;
Szalontai, Gabor Daniel
Achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and poverty reduction objectives of developing countries requires a substantially greater investment in capacity development. This translates into action...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 38910Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Alameddine, Chirine ;
Hart-Poliquin, Moira
This study examines the challenges facing the railways of the Western Balkans region. The region's railways have many common problems including small size and fragmented railway service that are best addressed...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42009Date: December 1, 2005Author:
Humphreys, Richard Martin ;
Lawrence, Martha B. ;
Ollivier, Gerald Paul ;
Rastogi, Cordula ;
Tomova, Julia Alexandrova ;
Morel, Julie
Informal settlements shelter about 80 percent of Kabul's population (2.44 million people), cover 69 percent of the city's residential land, and represent a fixed private capital investment of US$2.5 billion...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 37084Date: December 1, 2005
This paper emphasizes that sustained economic growth in the West Bank and Gaza is a vital part of the process of political normalization and employment, and particularly youth employment, must be the essence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40462Date: December 1, 2005
The 2005 External Review of Public Financial Management (ERPFM) consists of two volumes. The first volume is the main text, while the second volume comprises statistical annexes. In the first chapter of...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 32595Date: December 1, 2005
The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multidonor technical assistance facility aimed at helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 35501Date: December 1, 2005
The objective of this policy note is to assist the Government of Moldova in improving the functioning of agricultural markets, with a view to enhancing the sector's contribution to Moldova's economic growth...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42141Date: December 1, 2005
A programmatic Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activity is a CDM project activity where the emission reductions are achieved by multiple actions executed over time as a result of a government...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76941Date: November 29, 2005
A programmatic Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project activity is a CDM project activity where the emission reductions are achieved by multiple actions executed over time as a result of a government...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76941Date: November 29, 2005
This Pavement Assessment Report for Roberts International Airport (RIA) is part of the Liberia Infrastructure Rehabilitation Program. It summarizes the findings of the complete pavement investigation....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71690Date: November 1, 2005
From the outset state-owned enterprises (SOE) financial and economic performance generally failed to meet the expectations of their creators and funders. There were African SOEs that performed, at least...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 35990Date: November 1, 2005
This paper tracks Thailand's economic performance for 2005-2006, particularly its economic growth rate, poverty headcount, oil pricing impacts, investment environment, competitiveness strategy, and infrastructure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37438Date: November 1, 2005Author:
Atsavasirilert, Wallada ;
Bhaopichitr, Kirida ;
Luangpenthong, Angkanee ;
Thongampai, Ruangrong
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