This press release announces that the
Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a loan for one
hundred fifty million US dollars in support of the
Metropolitan Areas...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165642Date: October 20, 2009
This is a statement by Mr. Whitney
Debevoise at the executive directors' meeting of
October 20, 2009 concerning the Santa Fe Road Infrastructure
Project for Argentina.
Type: Executive Director's StatementReport#: 148313Date: October 20, 2009Author:
Debevoise,Whitney
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved one billion
five million loan aimed to develop public policies to
support the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167240Date: October 20, 2009
Albania is rich in basic metals,
including chromium, copper, nickel, and zinc, as well as
industrial minerals including sand, gravel, limestone,
gypsum, kaolin, and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70194Date: October 15, 2009Author:
Bakallbashi, Jani
This result profile talks about Rural
Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Rwanda. To remain on
track to reach the Millennium Development Goal of 85 percent
water...
The objective of this Country
Environmental Analysis (CEA) is to highlight the underlying
challenges and opportunities for Indonesia's
environment and management of...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 50762Date: October 1, 2009
Rapidly increasing emissions of carbon
dioxide from the transport sector, particularly in urban
areas, is a major challenge to sustainable development in
developing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5098Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Timilsina, Govinda R. ;
Shrestha, Ashish
Using a nested multinomial logit model
of car ownership and personal travel in Beijing circa 2005,
this paper compares the effectiveness of different policy
instruments...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5068Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Anas,Alexandros ;
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Zheng,Siqi
The province of Papua of the Republic of
Indonesia was provided special autonomy under law 21-2001 in
recognition of the fact that 'the management and use of
the natural...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 51777Date: October 1, 2009
The Chinese economy has experienced an
unprecedented 30-year period of economic growth and
development that has delivered enormous social and economic
benefits to the...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 66535Date: October 1, 2009
The Mexico City Metropolitan Area has
been suffering severely from transportation externalities
such as accidents, air pollution, and traffic congestion.
This study...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5071Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Parry, Ian W.H. ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
The remote and sparsely populated
provinces of Papua and West Papua face a time of great
change. Monetary transfers from Jakarta have grown
extraordinarily in recent...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: AAA42Date: October 1, 2009
This report will look at how the
Government of Morocco (GoM) has addressed the issues of
decentralization and deconcentration in recent years. It
discusses how these...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69706Date: October 1, 2009
The Global Program on Fisheries
(PROFISH) provides a foundation for sustainable fisheries
initiatives supported by the World Bank and other
development partners by producing...
Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) has
developed recently an ambitious master development plan for
Amman city based on an innovative approach to metropolitan,
urban and...
Type: Development Policy Review (DPR)Report#: 69138Date: October 1, 2009
This information note is prepared under
an Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)
funded assignment to explore possibilities of leveraging
third parties,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70971Date: October 1, 2009
This study examines impacts on net
social benefits or economic welfare of alternative policy
instruments for reducing traffic congestion and atmospheric
emissions in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5099Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Anas, Alex ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
This paper uses district level data to
estimate the general relationship between climate, income
and life expectancy in Peru. The analysis finds that both
incomes and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5091Date: October 1, 2009Author:
Andersen, Lykke E. ;
Suxo, Addy ;
Verner,Dorte
The petroleum sector is not very well
developed at the present time in Rwanda. The only petroleum
related activity at this time in Rwanda is the extraction of
dissolved...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 70432Date: October 1, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Directors approved sixty-five million
five hundred forty thousand US dollars credit to Uzbekistan
through...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166940Date: September 24, 2009
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