Bangladesh is well placed to play an
important role in regional trade as a transit country in
South Asia. Geographically, Bangladesh’s location makes the
country a gateway...
Transport is not gender neutral, despite
women making up half of the global population. Women are not
a homogenous category; they vary significantly in
socio-economic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144535Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Allen,Heather Caroline Taylor ;
Alam,Muneeza Mehmood
Central to universal access in urban
areas, is that enabling access to opportunities goes beyond
the idea of providing access to transport alone. It involves
increasing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144545Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Turner,Philip ;
Mason,Jacob
Approximately forty million people in
Bangladesh live in urban areas, and twenty-one percent of
them live below the poverty line. Rapid urban growth has put
considerable...
In South Asia, Bangladesh continues to
witness one of the most rapid and unplanned urbanization.
Yet, the cities, especially the district towns and
municipalities offer...
Research shows that vehicle speed
affects the severity of all road crashes. Higher speed
crashes involve more kinetic energy: the more energy that is
dispersed in a...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144254Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Burlacu,Florentina-Alina ;
Rogers,Luke
The country opinion survey in Bangladesh
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Bangladesh perceive the
WBG. It...
Type: ReportReport#: 143401Date: July 1, 2019Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Confronted with pervasive macroeconomic
imbalances and microeconomic distortions, the Government of
Egypt (GOE) started in 2016 to move forward with important
reforms...
The lack of availability and reliability
of power is a key constraint to job creation and poverty
reduction, hampering the competitiveness of Bangladesh’s
economy. The...
Over 300,000 km rural road network in
Bangladesh open up economic opportunities for rural people
and improve access to markets, schools, and health
facilities. The country...
After More than twenty years of
implementation, Colombia and the National urban transport
program (NUTP) is a global example when it comes to
articulation of national...
Bhutan’s investment climate is primarily
constrained by imperfections in factor markets, limited
access to product markets, and state dominance. Driven by
the capital-intensive...
Between 2010 and 2018, Bhutan’s economic
performance in the real growth of gross domestic product
(GDP) was respectable, averaging more than 5 percent a year.
This was...
Type: ReportReport#: 139984Date: June 29, 2019Author:
Zafar,Ali ;
Engman,Michael Olavi
The book is divided into five sections,
namely: introduction to the grievance management process,
the grievance management process, receiving and registering
grievances,...
This study examines whether firms react
to changes in investment incentives provided by the
government. The authors analyze firms’ location and
investment choice in...
Type: ReportReport#: 139902Date: June 28, 2019Author:
Mosberger, Pálma ;
Varga,Zsuzsanna
This report is a compilation of 6 policy
notes. Policy Note 1 provides an overview of the report’s
key findings. Policy Note 2 focuses on water and irrigation,
Policy...
This study aims to answer a simple
question: what the impact on poverty rates due changes in
consumer prices because of changes in market structure of
selected goods...
Type: ReportReport#: 139897Date: June 28, 2019Author:
Cusolito,Ana Paula ;
Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel ;
Mungai,Rose ;
Matytsin,Mikhail
Building on a two-dimensional discrete
version of the standard urban economics land-use model, this
paper presents a tractable urban land-use simulation model
that is...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8921Date: June 27, 2019Author:
Pfeiffer,Basile Fabrice ;
Rabe,Claus ;
Selod,Harris ;
Viguie,Vincent
This policy memo outlines the main
points raised and discussed by the representatives ofthe
Yemeni private sector in a meeting that was held in Amman on
27th January,...
There has been no change in moderate
poverty nationally and in urban centers, but poverty has
increased in rural areas. The adverse effects of the 2016
drought is shown...
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