This story highlights this is the year
for action on gender equality, World Bank Group Senior
Director for Gender Caren Grown says, with the launch of new
global anti-poverty...
March 3 is World Wildlife Day. The World
Bank is a partner of the the International Consortium on
Combating Wildlife Crime (ICWCC) campaign urging people to
get serious...
Access to proper sanitation helps keep
children healthy, but millions of people in the developing
world still practice open defecation, putting children at
risk. Diarrhea,...
Type: BriefReport#: 96568Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Briceno,Bertha ;
Chase,Claire ;
Echenique Henning,Juan Agustin
Cities in the developing world are
relying more on public-private partnerships (PPPs) to carry
out the most complex and demanding of public works
initiatives - the development...
Type: BriefReport#: 96252Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Pulido,Daniel ;
Hirschhorn,Fabio
This rapid economic and social impact
assessment (ESIA) differs from standard needs assessments.
First, the crisis is still unfolding, so it is not conducted
in a post-conflict...
Type: BriefReport#: 94954Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Kulaksiz,Sibel
The main purpose of this note is to
share the knowledge and experience within the World Bank and
to the community of stakeholders on the Public Sector
Governance Program,...
Type: BriefReport#: 95264Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Emeruwa,Hilda ;
Ishihara,Yoichiro
This brief focuses on gender in Albania.
The World Bank Group is committed to including a gender lens
in its activities and addressing gender-specific challenges
to...
Most countries of the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA) region are falling behind in their quest
to develop high-speed Internet for rapid socioeconomic
development....
Type: BriefReport#: 96248Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Gelvanovska-Garcia,Natalija ;
Rogy,Michel ;
Rossotto,Carlo Maria
Problems or even failure in transport
initiatives are more likely for projects set in the urban
areas of developing countries. Connecting a rural village to
an all-weather...
Type: BriefReport#: 96250Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Kumar, Ajay ;
Zimmerman,Samuel L.
Manila’s Light Rail Transit Line 1
(LRT-1) started commercial operations in 1984. It was the
first LRT line built in the Philippines. Thirty years later,
it continues...
World Bank is applying to transport
initiatives a new and distinctive method of greenhouse gas
(GHG) analysis as part of its comprehensive GHG accounting
policy. In...
Type: BriefReport#: 96249Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Kopp,Andreas Dietrich
This brief focuses on gender in
Azerbaijan. The World Bank Group is committed to including a
gender lens in its activities and addressing gender-specific
challenges...
Vietnam has performed well in moving
towards universal water supply, increasing access to
improved drinking water sources from 62 percent in 1990 to
95 percent in 2012....
This Knowledge and Learning Note
discusses regional collaboration on education in the Arab
world. Regional collaboration on Education is arguably more
challenging, comparatively...
Type: BriefReport#: 95184Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Moreno Olmedilla,Juan Manuel ;
Thacker,Simon
Jaipur Municipal Corporation (JMC)
operates and maintains over 100,000 public street lights
within the city. However, the public lights system was
facing problems owing...
Cervical cancer screening is highly cost
effective, feasible, and culturally acceptable in higher and
lower income settings across the world. According to the
World...
Type: BriefReport#: 95700Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Krishnan, S. ;
Madsen,Egon H. ;
Porterfield,Mark R. ;
Varghese, B
The evaluation found that the program
successfully shifted high-risk men from criminal activities
into farming. Graduates earned more money than their
counterparts who...
Type: BriefReport#: 94711Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Berman,Daphna
Public private partnerships (PPPs) for
infrastructure projects require substantial initial funding
that private operators in developing countries can rarely
obtain in...
Type: BriefReport#: 96251Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Kerf,Michel
The Indonesian school grants program
(Bantuan Operasional Sekolah - BOS) is coming to the end of
its first decade of operation. Over that period, the program
has been...
Type: BriefReport#: 96507Date: March 1, 2015Author:
Al-Samarrai,Samer
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available Multiple Indicator
Cluster...
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