Located in South Asia, Pakistan is the
sixth most populous country in the world. Pakistan is
divided into four provinces, a state and federally and
provincially administrated...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 124023Date: May 1, 2014
What's the most effective way to
reintegrate ex-combatants and reduce illegal activities?
This policy note reviews an innovative program that had a
big impact. In Liberia,...
Type: BriefReport#: 88613Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Blattman,Christopher ;
Annan,Jeannie Ruth
This issue focuses on emergency
evacaution strategies for the people of Haiti. The country
ranks as one of the countries with the highest exposure to
multiple natural...
IEG’s Country Program
Evaluation (CPE) covers the period FY05–13. The
period spans three World Bank Group country strategies and
one progress report. It...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 157815Date: April 16, 2014
This report on Burundi Rapid Assessment
with Focus on Flood Risk Management deals with the fact that
following the assessment of damages mission from 3 to March
14,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS10070Date: April 14, 2014Author:
Migraine,Jean Baptiste
This is a statement by Mr. Michel Sapin,
Minister of Finance at the eighty-ninth meeting of the
Development Committee held on April 12, 2014. He emphasize
that the multilateral...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 86985Date: April 12, 2014Author:
Sapin, Michel
This power sector policy note analyzes
the principal challenges in the power sector of the Kyrgyz
Republic and identifies possible solutions for overcoming
them. To...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 87798Date: April 1, 2014Author:
Balabanyan, Ani ;
Merrill, Jessica ;
Hankinson, Denzel
The World Bank’s Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) isworking with
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the European
Union(EU) to develop...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114700Date: April 1, 2014
The principal focus in the substantial
literature on impediments to economic development has been
on the inadequacies of policies and governance. However,
successful...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6828Date: April 1, 2014Author:
Bjornskov,Christian ;
Bogetic,Zeljko ;
Hillman,Arye L. ;
Popovic,Milenko
Fragile and conflict-affected situations
might appear incapable of attracting significant flows of
foreign investment due to their often negative international
images...
Type: BriefReport#: 91190Date: April 1, 2014Author:
Griffin,Carlos Roberto ;
Whyte,Robert
The Advisory Panel (AP) was created to
conduct a yearly technical review of trust fund for
statistical capacity building (TFSCB) activities and report
its findings and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 88537Date: March 14, 2014Author:
Patel, Chandrakant A. ;
Bodin, Jean-Louis
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period March to May
2014, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings, for...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 85653Date: March 3, 2014
There has been a tendency for a
one-size-fits-all approach to the implementation, with the
result being a variation in the success of any implemented
performance based...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 87826Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Gericke,Petrus Benjamin ;
Greewood, Ian ;
Henning,Theuns Frederick Phillip
This issue focuses on ways to minimize
impact on vulnerable populations living in the Rio de
Janeiro's mountainous region, particularly in regards
to extreme flooding...
Performance Based Contracts (PBC's)
are not new to the transport sector, with many variants in
use in different countries for close to two decades.
International lending...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 87828Date: March 1, 2014Author:
Gericke,Petrus Benjamin ;
Greewood, Ian ;
Henning,Theuns Frederick Phillip
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