In this paper the impact of various
agglomerative forces on employment growth in Ghanaian
manufacturing is investigated, using data from two firm
censuses, as well as...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8946Date: July 22, 2019Author:
Kerr,Andrew Nicholas ;
McDougall,Bruce
This brief contains the economic
highlights of Indonesia as of July 19, 2019. The
presidential regulation on the acceleration of
battery-electric vehicle development...
This paper summarizes the World
Bank's approach to identifying parameters for key
equations in its macro structural model for countries where
short sample sizes or major...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8939Date: July 11, 2019Author:
Burns,Andrew ;
Jooste,Charl
Business practices and performance vary
widely among local peers. This paper identifies key
determinants of such heterogeneity among a sample of small
urban retail shops...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8933Date: July 8, 2019Author:
Dalton,Patricio S. ;
Ruschenpohler,Julius ;
Uras,Burak ;
Zia,Bilal Husnain
This impact evaluation assess the impact
of rural road upgrading and rehabilitation on transport
conditions, access to services, agricultural
commercialization, household...
The inland water transportation sector
can play an important role in improving domestic
connectivity and regional integration. As a riverine
country, Bangladesh has...
Established in June 2017, the City
Resilience Program (CRP) a partnership between the World
Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery (GFDRR)...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 148990Date: July 1, 2019
For years now, it has been established
that poverty is more concentrated in the northern regions of
the country, where the poverty rates are way above the
country’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 139511Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Hebga,Odilia Renata
The country opinion survey in Botswana
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Botswana perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: ReportReport#: 143404Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The Urban Transport in Metropolitan
Areas Project aims to improve the quality and sustainability
of urban transport systems in metropolitan areas in
Argentina. This...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 141006Date: July 1, 2019
Improvement of access is one of the four
goals set by the global Sustainable Mobility for All
(SuM4All) initiative, aimed at ensuring the sustainability
of the transport...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144541Date: July 1, 2019Author:
De Leon-Jones,Elizabeth ;
Cook,Jasper Russell
The “Global Roadmap of Action Toward
Sustainable Mobility” (GRA) tackles heads-on the question
any decision-makers face in transport: “How” can my country
achieve sustainable...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144544Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Vandycke,Nancy L. ;
Care Baptista Viegas,Jose Manuel ;
Morales Sarriera,Javier
The Road Transport Corridors Project
aims to : (i) to reduce transportation cost and time and
improve road safety on select road corridors between lagging
regions and...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 141009Date: July 1, 2019
Changes in economic structures are an
essential feature of development. But how are these brought
about? A growing body of evidence underscores the
transformative role...
Type: BriefReport#: 139479Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Martins,Pedro Miguel Gaspar
The Decentralized Rural Transport
Project in Peru aims to improve the access of rural
households and entrepreneurs to goods, social services and
income generating opportunities...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 141008Date: July 1, 2019
With 36 percent of the country’s urban
population living in Greater Dhaka, the capital of
Bangladesh has become one of the world’s most densely
populated cities. The...
Within the framework of the sustainable
mobility for all (SuM4All) initiative, the global roadmap of
action toward sustainable mobility (GRA) has been written as
a multi-stakeholder...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144540Date: July 1, 2019
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