The Bengbu Integrated Environment
Improvement Project was designed to improve the
effectiveness and sustainability of certain urban
environmental services delivered...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 135045Date: March 1, 2019
In Ukraine, the government’s economic
interventions have a major influence on market outcomes. The
propensity of SOEs and politically connected firms in
concentrated...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135463Date: March 1, 2019Author:
Pop,Georgiana ;
Martinez Licetti,Martha ;
Gramegna Mesa,Soulange Fatima ;
Dauda,Seidu
Geographic information systems (GIS)
tools are used to identify areas suitable for the
development of solar photovoltaic (PV) plants. Once the
suitable areas have been...
This report presents preliminary
findings and recommendations from the two-year
implementation (2016 and 2017) of the early childhood
education and development (ECED)...
Despite several severe shocks in the
past, conflict, unstable governments, earthquakes, and trade
disruptions, Nepal has made strong progress in reducing
poverty and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134956Date: February 28, 2019Author:
Shukla,Shyamala ;
Srivastava,Sanjay
Jordan's growth model is highly
dependent on investment, with contractions in the
magnitude,quantity and efficacy of investments being key
drivers in the sharp deceleration...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135708Date: February 28, 2019Author:
Harake,Wissam
The Government of Côte d'Ivoire,
with the support of the World Bank, has undertaken the
preparation of Abidjan the Urban Mobility Project (AUMP)
whose development objective...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 135405Date: February 28, 2019
Indonesia, the largest archipelagic
country in the world with extensive tropical rainforests,
high carbon stock values and energy and mineral resources,
is firmly committed...
Type: CorrespondenceReport#: 136352Date: February 28, 2019
Natural resources play a strong role
driving economic growth in many countries, mobilizing
revenues for public services and lifting people out of
poverty. However, in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134884Date: February 26, 2019
This paper examines patterns of market
integration for food commodities in India. First, it tests
the extent of domestic spatial market integration for retail
and wholesale...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8755Date: February 25, 2019Author:
Boffa,Mauro ;
Varela,Gonzalo J.
Rural accessibility is the only metric
used in the Sustainable Development Goals to track progress
toward better transport services in low- and middle-income
countries....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8746Date: February 19, 2019Author:
Mikou,Mehdi ;
Rozenberg,Julie ;
Koks,Elco Eduard ;
Fox,Charles James Edward ;
Peralta Quiros,Tatiana
This paper presents the details of three
scenarios -- leapfrog, lock-in, and lopsided -- that
describe an illustrative set of technological states. Based
largely on...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8748Date: February 19, 2019Author:
Leifman,Michael Meir
Beyond the Gap: How Countries Can Afford
the Infrastructure They Need while Protecting the Planet
aims to shift the debate regarding investment needs away
from a simple...
Type: PublicationReport#: 134795Date: February 19, 2019Author:
Rozenberg,Julie ;
Fay,Marianne
This paper proposes a framework that
examines three levels of access to infrastructure --
nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most
conventional indicators...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8750Date: February 19, 2019Author:
Gulyani,Sumila ;
Ryan Rizvi,Andrea C. ;
Talukdar,Debabrata
The Managements of the World Bank Group
(WBG) institutions welcome the report by the Independent
Evaluation Group (IEG), An Independent Evaluation of World
Bank Group...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 134886Date: February 13, 2019
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