This overview of climate change
activities in Turkmenistan is part of a series of country
notes for five Central Asian countries that summarize
climate portfolio in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 85564Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Shah, Jitendra
This paper analyzes the scale and
productivity consequences of varied input use in Indian
manufacturing using detailed plant-level data. Counts of
distinct material...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6656Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Ghani,Syed Ejaz ;
Kerr,William Robert ;
O'Connell,Stephen A.
Nepal's economic development
remains contingent on political developments. Political
volatility and uncertainty continue to hamper
growth-oriented fiscal policies while...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81715Date: October 1, 2013
The process of political change and
transition across much of the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA) region continued into 2013, with a great degree of
heterogeneity...
Type: BriefReport#: 83723Date: October 1, 2013Author:
MNAEX
The development objective of the
Additional Financing for the Second Road Maintenance and
Rehabilitation Project for Papua New Guinea is to: (i)
improve road transport...
This paper presents a technical
efficiency analysis of container ports in Latin America and
the Caribbean using an input-oriented stochastic frontier
model. A 10-year...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6680Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Araya,Gonzalo Enrique ;
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Morales Sarriera,Javier ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
The development objective of the
Additional Financing for the Second Road Maintenance and
Rehabilitation Project for Papua New Guinea is to: (i)
improve road transport...
This paper proposes the first evaluation
using micro-level data of the gains from the consistency of
activities with a local comparative advantage. Using
firm-level...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6676Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Poncet, Sandra ;
de Waldemar, Felipe Starosta
This overview of climate change
activities in Kazakhstan is part of a series of country
notes for five Central Asian countries that summarize
climate portfolio of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 85559Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Levine,Tamara Ashley ;
Murisic,Maja ;
Rinnerberger,Nina ;
Shah,Jitendra J. ;
Srivastava,Jitendra P.
This document constitutes the final
report of component one of the transport crowd source
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
Demonstration project, which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS9722Date: October 1, 2013
Although Lao PDR has made notable
progress in improving maternal and child health (MCH),
attainment of the Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG5) still
remains a challenge....
Type: Other Health StudyReport#: AUS1950Date: October 1, 2013
Green industrial policies can be defined
as industrial policies with an environmental goal -- or more
precisely, as sector-targeted policies that affect the
economic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6677Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Fay,Marianne ;
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille
Tourism is one of the key industries
driving the current economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
(SSA). From a small base of just 6.7 million visitors in
1990, SSA attracted...
Type: BriefReport#: 81835Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Christie, Iain ;
Fernandes, Eneida ;
Messerli, Hannah ;
Twining-Ward, Louise
The issue of how International
Development Association (IDA) can expand its role in
facilitating the preparation and implementation of regional
transformational projects...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81803Date: October 1, 2013
The development objective of the
Additional Financing for the Second Road Maintenance and
Rehabilitation Project for Papua New Guinea is to: (i)
improve road transport...
India's progress in economic and
human development is one of the most significant global
achievements of recent times. Between 2005 and 2010,
India's share of global...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81704Date: September 27, 2013
This report is a product of the ninth
meeting of the Technical Advisory Group held in Washington,
DC from September 25 to 27, 2013. This report is an
operational guide...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90789Date: September 27, 2013Author:
Romand,Virginia
On September 25, 2013, the Committee on
Governance and Executive Directors' Administrative
Matters (COGAM) endorsed Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency (MIGA's)...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 84678Date: September 25, 2013
The most important driver of this vision
was public recognition that high levels of carbon dependent
economic growth were not sustainable. This vision aimed to
shift...
Type: BriefReport#: 83287Date: September 23, 2013Author:
Choi,Sang Dae
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