Built infrastructure projects worldwide,
are often vulnerable to various performance shortfalls
unless carefully planned and controlled from the outset.
Indeed these...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 99928Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Kumaraswamy,Mohan Maheswaran ;
Raza,Haider
Many manufacturers underestimate their
waste costs by focusing on disposal expenses and recycling
revenue, missing the high cost of raw materials that don’t
end up in...
The rural road gravel assessment program
(RRGAP) comprised the evaluation of a representative
selection of 269 World Bank (WB)-funded road links from 16
provinces. Between...
Report#: 98242Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Ellis,Simon David ;
O'Neill,Peter ;
Lucas,Simon
The Government of India has requested
World Bank for financing rehabilitation, widening and
strengthening of State Highways and District Roads in the
State of Mizoram,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 86026Date: January 1, 2014
The International Development
Association (IDA) 16 replenishment arrangements provide that
IDA country allocations be made available for information to
IDA's Executive...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 91208Date: January 1, 2014
This report presents an overview of the
World Bank assistance provided to the Government and other
agencies in Romania under the instrument of reimbursable
advisory...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 145993Date: January 1, 2014
The Government of India has requested
World Bank for financing rehabilitation, widening and
strengthening of State Highways and District Roads in the
State of Mizoram,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 85460Date: January 1, 2014
The Rural Road Gravel Assessment Program
(RRGAP) comprised the evaluation of a representative
selection of 269 WB-funded road links from 16 provinces.
Between 2003 and...
Understanding risk (UR) is a global
community of almost 3,500 experts and practitioners in the
field of disaster risk assessment. Every two years, the
global facility...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 96529Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Ghesquiere,Francis ;
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Phillips,Emma Katrine Alexandra ;
Toro Landivar,Jose C. Joaquin ;
Wyan,Angela Adilia ;
Balog,Simone Andrea Breunig ;
Heslop, Clio
Building and operating successful public
institutions is a perennial and long-term challenge for
governments, even under ideal circumstances. The complexity
of this...
Type: PublicationReport#: 90585Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Barma, Naazneen H. ;
Huybens,Elisabeth ;
Vinuela,Lorena
Nepal needs a new economic model to
achieve faster and sustained growth as well as further
improvements in human development and poverty outcomes.
Economic growth, while...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90270Date: January 1, 2014
This report, consisting of a study
prepared by global project finance specialists Hunton and
Williams LLP and comments from six internationally reputed
economists and...
This report is a synthesis of component
B outputs. It is based on the rapid assessments of climate
risks and actions in six sectors, energy, transport, urban,
water,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 85766Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Xie, Jian
The demand for accountability in
aid-for-trade is increasing but monitoring has focused on
case studies and impressionistic narratives. The paper
reviews recent evidence...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6742Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Cadot,Olivier ;
Fernandes,Ana Margarida ;
Gourdon,Julien ;
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
De Melo,Jaime A. P.
Energy subsidies have existed in
Malaysia since the 1980s. From 1983 to 2014, the retail
price of any energy product was set by the automatic price
mechanism (APM)....
Type: ReportReport#: 139446Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Bergaoui,Jihane
Following a ten-year civil war that
ended in 2006 and led to the transition from a centuries-old
monarchy to a republic based on a multi-party democracy,
Nepal remains...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 88866Date: January 1, 2014
The development objective of the
Additional Financing for the Regional Disaster Vulnerability
Reduction Project for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is to
reduce disaster...
The Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF)
Dispatch newsletter, as a publication of the GRSF, is
dedicated to the vital issue of road safety, and the
activities, measures,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 84193Date: January 1, 2014
Since the late 1990s access to
information and communication technologies (ICTs) has seen
tremendous growthdriven primarily by the wireless
technologies and liberalization...
Type: World Development IndicatorsReport#: 88360Date: January 1, 2014
The Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN)
through the highways department has taken up the Second
Tamil Nadu Road Sector Project (TNRSP-II), covering
up-gradation, maintenance,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 92188Date: January 1, 2014
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