This note focuses on the economic evaluation of more conventional infrastructure investments, and specifically on two types of projects which may result in significant economic restructuring - relocation...
Type: BriefReport#: 33939Date: January 1, 2005Author:
Mackie, Peter ;
Nellthorp, John ;
Laird, James
This report provides an update on progress and developments of the Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI) portfolio during the period April 1, 2004-September 30, 2004, and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 44596Date: December 31, 2004
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: program councel news, technical advisory panel news, notable PPIAF products,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41723Date: December 31, 2004
The SEE transport system has long been acknowledged to be an essential component in facilitating economic development, leading to employment opportunities, and poverty alleviation (World Bank, 2004). In...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 34888Date: December 30, 2004Author:
Amos,Paul Frederick ;
Audige,Michel ;
Crochet,Jean-Charles ;
Guitink,Paulus A. ;
Humphreys,Richard Martin ;
Olliver, Gerald ;
Singh P., Janardan ;
Velardi,Luisa
The 2004 Annual Stakeholders Meeting of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from September 27-29, 2004. As a partnership program, the SSATP Annual...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 34946Date: December 30, 2004
The TTFSE program, goal is to mitigate some of the major obstacles to international transit and trade. It is a regional program involving projects in eight countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 34884Date: December 30, 2004
Across the transition economies, there appears to be a strong and positive association between export market growth and economic growth. Export market growth, for its part, has been closely linked to the...
Type: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows StudyReport#: 30998Date: December 23, 2004
This news release, dated December 21, 2004, announces the World Bank approved a loan of United States (U.S.) 620 million dollars to upgrade the stretch of National Highway No. 28 between Lucknow in the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164282Date: December 21, 2004
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#: 35500Date: December 1, 2004
The first objective of this study was to provide an accurate understanding of the organization of logistics from the farmer to the main centers in two districts, Kisumu and Nyandarua; that is the sequence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47782Date: December 1, 2004Author:
Abdi, Halima Noor
This analysis documents and relates how rural logistics costs emanating from infrastructure particularly road quality impacts agricultural production and marketing in export crops producing rural areas....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47774Date: December 1, 2004Author:
Nyange,David Absalom
The purpose of the study is to determine whether the current tax/incentive scheme in each of the designated sectors is conducive to growth goals and whether these sectors are competitive domestically and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 35704Date: December 1, 2004
In the second half of the current year a number of important laws were adopted by the Albanian Assembly and several pivotal strategies and action plans were adopted by the Government of Albania (GoA)....
This news release, dated November 30, 2004, announces the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of United States (U.S.) 129 million dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164884Date: November 30, 2004
This news release, dated November 30, 2004, announces as part of the integral fight against poverty, the World Bank and its partners kicked off the second International Conference on Disability and Development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165636Date: November 30, 2004
The handbook on supply chain management for HIV/AIDS commodities was written to assist program managers to plan and implement day-to-day management of all drugs and medical supplies for an HIV/AIDS program....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37216Date: November 29, 2004Author:
Jobanputra,Sangeeta Raja ;
Mohammad,Nadeem
This news release, dated November 23, 2004, announces the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a total of United States (U.S.) 125 million dollars in guarantees supporting the construction...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164628Date: November 23, 2004
This news release, dated November 19, 2004, announces the World Bank approved a total of United States (U.S.) 20 million dollars to support the Hurricane Ivan recovery efforts in Grenada.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165113Date: November 19, 2004
This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) provides an assessment on the role of the Bank assistance to Croatia during 1991-2003. Since 1993, the Bank lending initially emphasized on reconstruction, followed...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 30714Date: November 17, 2004
This news release, dated November 17, 2004, announces the World Bank Board of Directors approved two loans for Romania amounting to United States (U.S.) 275 million dollars for the Transport Restructuring...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164936Date: November 17, 2004
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