Adequate urban infrastructure can be
expensive, but the costs of not delivering housing,
transportation, water, sewage, public facilities, and other
necessities are...
Report#: WPS6882Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Pohl, Herbert ;
Woetzel, Jonathan
This paper focuses on three interrelated
questions on urbanization and the geography of development.
First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases
as...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6877Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Henderson,John Vernon
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period May to July 2014,
specifying the Boards' engagements, such as meetings
and briefings.
The objective of the Multimodal
Transport Project for Cameroon is to increase multimodal
transport efficiency and effectiveness along the
Yaounde-Kousseri corridor....
This paper explores the challenges and
opportunities that government officials face in designing
coherent 'rules of the game' for achieving urban
sustainability during...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6878Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Kahn,Matthew Edwin
In the mid-2000s, India began rolling
out large-scale, publicly-financed health insurance schemes
mostly targeting the poor. This paper describes and analyzes
Andhra...
Report#: WPS6883Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Bergkvist, Sofi ;
Katyal, Anuradha ;
Rao, Mala ;
Samarth, Amit ;
Singh, Prabal V. ;
Wagstaff,Robert Adam Stephen
Cities emerge from the spatial
concentration of people and economic activities. But spatial
concentration is not enough; the economic viability of
cities depends on...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6870Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Bertaud,Alain
This review examines the implementation
of the FY2010-13 Pakistan country partnership strategy (CPS)
and of the FY2012-14 CPS progress report (CPSPR). The CPS
was jointly...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 87715Date: April 21, 2014
This review examines the implementation
of the FY2010-13 Georgia country partnership strategy (CPS)
of FY2010 and the CPS progress report (CPSPR) of FY2012, and
assesses...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 87337Date: April 21, 2014
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 is a statement by Ms.
Marie-Gabrielle Ineichen-Fleisch, State Secretary for
Economic Affairs, Swiss Confederation at the eighty-ninth
meeting of the Development...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 86983Date: April 12, 2014Author:
Ineichen-Fleisch, Marie-Gabrielle
The autonomous city of Buenos Aires
developed a risk management scheme to reduce the city's
vulnerability to flooding under the Bank-supported Flood
Protection Project,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 87847Date: April 11, 2014
This review examines the implementation
of the FY2010-2013 country partnership strategy (CPS) of
FY2010 and the CPS progress report (CPSPR) of FY2012, and
assesses the...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 87026Date: April 8, 2014
The objective of the Second Mizoram
State Roads Regional Transport Connectivity Project (MSRP
II) is to increase transport connectivity along regional
trade corridors...
A 2013 scientific assessment of black
carbon emissions and impacts found that black carbon is
second to carbon dioxide in terms of its climate forcing.
High concentrations...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 86485Date: April 2, 2014Author:
Minjares, Ray ;
Wagner, David Vance ;
Akbar, Sameer
This South Asia Country brief discusses
about the economic development of Maldives as of 2014. Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) growth was projected to rise to 4.5
percent...
The Dasu Hydropower Project (DHP) is a
major investment project proposed by the Government of
Pakistan (GoP) to modernize and expand the energy sector of
the country,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 87845Date: April 1, 2014
In Lao People's Democratic Republic
(PDR), the value of trade has risen rapidly over the last
decade with both imports and exports increasing by average
annual rate...
Type: Other Urban StudyReport#: 72061Date: April 1, 2014Author:
Record, Richard ;
Nghardsaysone, Konesawang ;
Sitrbat, Liviu ;
Kunaka, Charles ;
Saslavsky, Daniel ;
Arnold, John ;
Ksoll, Christian
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