The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY05 provides information on all International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 50738Date: September 23, 2005
The Status of Projects in Execution (SOPE) report for FY05 provides information on all International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)/International Development Association (IDA) projects...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 50740Date: September 23, 2005
This news release, dated September 15, 2005, announces the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a EUR150 million (U.S. 184.9 million dollars equivalent) programmatic adjustment loan (PAL)...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169690Date: September 15, 2005
This news release, dated September 15, 2005, announces the World Bank approved a EUR15 million for the Railways Reform Project for the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) Macedonia.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169508Date: September 15, 2005
Roads, the focus of this chapter, form the armature for these services, which seek to help the rural population prosper and reduce income disparities between regions. For the foreign visitor to the rural...
This report discusses the remarks delivered by Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank. He discusses that the millennium development goals created a metric of accountability for which humanity will...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101311Date: September 14, 2005Author:
Wolfowitz,Paul
Afghanistan is one of the poorest and longest suffering countries among members of the World Bank, and has been ravaged by chronic conflict and political instability. Afghanistan's infrastructure has been...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 70418Date: September 13, 2005
This news release, dated September 12, 2005, announces East Asian economies lagged in introducing reforms to help small and medium businesses generate jobs relative to most other regions, according to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167101Date: September 12, 2005
This news release, dated September 12, 2005, announces Eastern European nations are aggressively courting entrepreneurs with far-reaching reforms that streamline business regulations and taxes, but African...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166860Date: September 12, 2005
This news release, dated September 12, 2005, announces South Asian economies are increasing the pace of reform to help small and medium businesses generate more jobs, but heavy legal burdens on business...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166920Date: September 12, 2005
The recent discussion on the effect of the composition of government expenditure on growth has pointed at public spending on particular projects that remove bottlenecks for growth as a tool to spark virtuous...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70427Date: September 7, 2005Author:
Herrera Aguilera,Santiago
The 1998 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Georgia and subsequent draft CASs focused on per capita income growth, poverty reduction and improved living standards. The original CAS FY98 objectives were,...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 89083Date: September 2, 2005
The 2005 Annual Meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy program (SSATP) - to take place in Bamako, Mali, in November 2005 - is a key strategic milestone for the program. The implementation of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37193Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Braithwaite,Mary
This paper reports the results of a survey of 5,000 households in the Greater Mumbai Region conducted in the winter of 2004. The goal of the survey was to better understand the demand for transport services...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS3693Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Baker,Judy L. ;
Basu,Rakhi ;
Cropper,Maureen L. ;
Lall,Somik V. ;
Takeuchi,Akie
The World Bank is supporting a number of initiatives to rationalize the downstream oil sector of Sub-Saharan African countries. Such initiatives include the phasing-out of leaded gasoline (part of the...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 35947Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Kane,Amadou
The International Development Association (IDA) launched its first regional Partial Risk Guarantee Facility for the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries -Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote...
This report presents the full range of options for rural road surfacing against a background of issues and constraints with the aim of assisting decision makers to make an appropriate selection. It recognizes...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37192Date: September 1, 2005Author:
MWH New Zealand Ltd.
Highlight of critical national challenges. From the World Bank's global press archive. Featuring special global events of the month. Summary of key country events of the month.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37234Date: September 1, 2005
This is the non-technical summary to the environmental assessment for the Azerbaijan Highway Project, which improves a section of the Baku-Alyat-Astara highway to reduce costs and increase access, discusses...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 34011Date: September 1, 2005
Trade facilitation is the ability of countries to deliver goods and services on time at the lowest possible cost. It has emerged as an important issue in unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral trade liberalization....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS3703Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Bagai,Shweta ;
Roy,Jayanta
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