The World Bank Group is working with the
Regulatory Reforms Commission to identify a systematic
approach to reform, with the overall objective of reducing
the regulatory...
Type: BriefReport#: 90708Date: August 9, 2013Author:
Rahman,Mohammad Azad
The Nepal Business License e-Portal is
an initiative of the Investment Climate Program in Nepal,
which seeks to reform the business environment by reducing
regulatory...
Type: BriefReport#: 90707Date: August 9, 2013Author:
Zake,Fred
The Georgia Tax Simplification Project
aimed to lower tax compliance costs and expands the tax base
of micro and small enterprises. The project worked to reduce
the...
Type: BriefReport#: 90710Date: August 9, 2013Author:
Avaliani, Ekaterine
The Kenya Investment Climate Program has
assisted the government with implementing regulatory reforms
since 2005. After unnecessary licensing requirements were
eliminated,...
Type: BriefReport#: 90706Date: August 9, 2013Author:
Twagira,Frank Abner
Since 2007, the World Bank Group has
worked with Bosnia and Herzegovina to streamline regulations
related to permitting and administrative procedures and to
overcome...
Type: BriefReport#: 90709Date: August 9, 2013Author:
Sahovic,Tarik
This brief focuses on the annual
conference of the MIRPAL (Migration and Remittance Peer
Assisted Learning) network held in St. Petersburg in 2013.
MIRPAL is a community...
Type: BriefReport#: 180024Date: August 5, 2013Author:
World Bank
A grand design attempt at public
administration reform can be thought of as any centrally
designed, multiple agency reform program or process designed
to modernize or...
Type: BriefReport#: 98809Date: August 1, 2013Author:
Verheijen,Antonius
In November 2004, IFC advised the
government of Mozambique on selecting a developer for the
Moatize coal deposit in the Zambezi Valley. The project was
intended to serve...
The Panama Pacifico project is
transforming the former Howard U.S. Air Force base outside
Panama City into a hub for international trade, logistics,
services, commerce,...
Decades of underinvestment in
infrastructure in the Philippines has created a huge backlog
of projects that need to be studied, developed, and
tendered, demanding resources...
As part of a major port sector reform
program, the government of the northeastern Brazilian state
of Pernambuco hired IFC as the principal advisor on the
public-private...
The Bucharest concession was Romania’s
first public-private partnership in the water and sanitation
sector and one of the first such transactions in the sector
in Europe....
The King Abdulaziz International Airport
Desalination Project is IFC’s first advisory project in the
desalination sector. The airport is the main international
gateway...
The millions of religious pilgrims who
visit Makkah and Madinah every year are experienc¬ing better
quality services at the Hajj Terminal at Jeddah’s King
Abdulaziz...
In small towns and rural areas of
Uganda, where 90 percent of the population lives, water
shortages are part of daily life. In these areas, 60 percent
of the population...
Well-functioning institutions are
critical to reducing poverty and boosting growth. However,
fragile and conflict-affected states generally lack the
political and institutional...
Type: BriefReport#: 80252Date: August 1, 2013Author:
Ali, Nazaneen Ismail ;
Jacobs, Andrew ;
Lipson, Rachel ;
Isoldi, Fabio
While the entire country is vulnerable
to natural hazards, there has yet to be a national level
risk assessment of Pakistan which is considered as the first
step to...
The Ashta hydropower plant is Albania’s
first major hydropower plant construction in 30 years and
the government’s first large public-private partnership
(PPP) in the...
As Côte d'Ivoire emerges from a
decade of political crisis and conflict, it faces a range of
pressing development challenges including the critical,
cross cutting...
For the first time after nearly 20 years
of almost no electricity, the 1.5 million citizens of
Monrovia have access to commercial power services thanks to
a management-contract...
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