Whether individuals and job
opportunities are well connected is a key determinant of
productive urban labor markets. The overall level of job
accessibility in a city...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8654Date: November 26, 2018Author:
Nakamura,Shohei ;
Avner,Paolo
This report has been drawn up within the
study of Component 2: Supporting resilience and recovery in
the forestry sector funded by The Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 136438Date: November 25, 2018Author:
Nosnikau,Vadim ;
Lednitskiy,Andrej ;
Protas,Pavel
This report has been drawn up within the
study “Assessing the current losses and improving the
economic analysis of the costs of the on-going climate
related catastrophic...
This Strategic Urban Master Plan (SUTMP)
presents a plan for improving mobility in Chittagong between
the years 2019 and 2030. The vision is to develop; ‘a
transport...
Type: ReportReport#: 135040Date: November 24, 2018Author:
Sakaki,Shigeyuki
This pre-feasibility study report seeks
to define the potential form of road improvement works that
can be undertaken in Chittagong in the short term. These
improvements...
Type: ReportReport#: 135055Date: November 24, 2018
This World Bank Group Boards'
calendar covers the period of November 2018 to January 2019,
specifying the Boards' engagements, such as meetings
and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132317Date: November 21, 2018
This pre-feasibility study report is the
sixth deliverable under the Chittagong Urban Transport
Master Plan project conducted for the World Bank coordinated
by the Chittagong...
Type: ReportReport#: 135050Date: November 19, 2018Author:
Sakaki,Shigeyuki
Too often governments and communities
are adversely affected by disasters simply because the most
basic information for resilience is missing or inaccessible.
For example:...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0000524Date: November 19, 2018
The Multi-modal Transport Project for
Congo, Democratic Republic of aims to improve transport
connectivity in the recipient’s territory to support
national economic...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132210Date: November 16, 2018
The Airports Development Project for
Egypt aims to support the support the Borrower’s ongoing
efforts to eliminate capacity bottlenecks to growth in
airport traffic,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132208Date: November 16, 2018
A Goods and Services Tax in a federal
structure by very nature is complex. The GST system in India
tries to minimize the complexity by applying a common base
and rate...
Type: ReportReport#: 132158Date: November 14, 2018
The production of export goods has
become increasingly unbundled, and countries positioning to
become more integrated in the global economy are
increasingly looking...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8646Date: November 13, 2018Author:
Hollweg,Claire Honore ;
Rocha Gaffurri,Nadia Patrizia
There is a global trend toward more
production, use, and sale of services by manufacturing
firms. This phenomenon is known as the servicification of
manufacturing. Services...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8643Date: November 9, 2018Author:
Haven,Thomas Edward ;
Van Der Marel,Erik Leendert
A variety of approaches to delineate
metropolitan areas have been developed. Systematic
comparisons of these approaches in terms of the urban
landscape that they generate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8641Date: November 7, 2018Author:
Bosker,Maarten ;
Park,Jane ;
Roberts,Mark
This World Bank Group Boards'
calendar covers the period of November 2018 to January 2019,
specifying the Boards' engagements, such as meetings
and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131858Date: November 6, 2018
The goal of the Croatia clusters and
global value chain (GVC) assessment project is to enhance
the competitiveness of Croatian firms through the
implementation of the...
Type: ReportReport#: 164351Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Yap,Justin ;
Kilroy,Austin ;
Lapres,Blair Edward ;
Muhtaseb,Sherif ;
Lee,Une J.
This story highlights an outcome of
infoDev, a multi-donor program administered by the World
Bank Group, with a focus on entrepreneurs in developing
economies. Since...
This story highlights an outcome of
infoDev, a multi-donor program administered by the World
Bank Group, with a focus on entrepreneurs in developing
economies. A pan-African...
Iranʼs GDP growth in 2017/18 eased
considerably as the effect of large surge in oil revenues in
the previous year dissipated. After undergoing an oil-based
bounce in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132553Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Hayati,Fayavar ;
Kazemi Najaf Abadi,Majid ;
Andersen,Maria Reinholdt ;
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Wai-Poi,Matthew Grant ;
Mostafavi Dehzooei,Mohammadhadi ;
Salehi Isfahani,Djavad
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