This brief focuses on a new tunnel that
has improved the connection between Serbia and Bulgaria at
Dimitrovgrad - part of the $388 million World Bank Corridor
X Highway...
Type: BriefReport#: 180140Date: May 7, 2014Author:
World Bank
The growing middle class and subsequent
growth in the internal market, rapid urbanization, and the
opening up of ASEAN markets bring both opportunities and
challenges....
Global value chains (GVCs) are playing
an increasingly important role in business strategies, which
has profoundly changed international trade and development
paradigms....
Type: BriefReport#: 88053Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Taglioni,Daria ;
Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth
The size of livestock's
contribution to agricultural value added as well as to the
gross domestic product (GDP), is a commonly quoted measure
of livestocks role in...
Type: BriefReport#: 86444Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Pica-Ciamarra, Ugo; Morgan, Nancy
A mini hydro plant destroyed during
Liberia’s civil war has been brought back to life by the
country’s newly created rural electrification agency and is
now bringing...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region has made steady progress in terms of the World
Bank's twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty and
boosting shared prosperity....
Type: BriefReport#: 90152Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Ianchovichina,Elena
Brazil’s second round of airport
concessions will increase operational efficiency, improve
the level of service to international standards, and expand
the infrastructure...
How does local context affect the
targeting and selection of women in community-driven
development (CDD) projects? This note explores how local
social and economic structures...
The Final Report of the Fifth Overall
Performance Study (OPS5) of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF) was presented at the May 2014 GEF Council meeting in
Cancun....
The Population and Housing Census is the
largest statistical operation undertaken by country
governments, every ten years on average. The Census collates
information...
This field note is a transcript from the
highlights of an interview with Ramesh Neubane, an MPhil
student who attended the Education Resilience workshop at
the School...
This note is intended to briefly
describe the World Bank's experience supporting the
development and implementation of an open government
initiative in Nigeria's Edo...
Type: BriefReport#: 88786Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Bujoreanu, Lyudmila ;
Kaplan, Jeff ;
McNaughton, Matthew
Since the early 1990s, the East Asia and
Pacific (EAP) region has seen remarkable economic growth and
a significant reduction in the number of people living on
less...
Type: BriefReport#: 88830Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Stanley, Victoria ;
Vyzaki, Marialena
Land is one of the most valuable assets
for rural people. Despite strong recent economic growth and
overall development, gender disparities in access to and
control...
Type: BriefReport#: 87929Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Stanley, Victoria ;
Vyzaki, Marialena
Understanding state-business
relationships and how they have shaped the institutional
architecture of countries in the Middle East and Northern
Africa (MENA) is crucial...
Type: BriefReport#: 90151Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Rijkers, Bob ;
Freund, Caroline ;
Nucifora, Antonio
Launched in 2003, Roshan (Telecom
Development Company Afghanistan Corp) is a leading
telecommunications provider with over six million mobile
telephony subscribers.First,...
This brief talks about the performance
of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (JISL) in India financed by
IFC. JISL, an integrated agribusiness, is the largest
manufacturer...
Does providing a free text messaging
(SMS) reporting tool, which facilitates communication
between farmers and the state-level Project Implementation
Unit (PIU) overseeing...
AEGEA saneamento e participações S.A.
(AEGEA) is the third largest private sector provider of
water and sanitation services in Brazil. The company is
majority owned...
What's the most effective way to
reintegrate ex-combatants and reduce illegal activities?
This policy note reviews an innovative program that had a
big impact. In Liberia,...
Type: BriefReport#: 88613Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Blattman,Christopher ;
Annan,Jeannie Ruth
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