This report highlights the great
potential of the agribusiness sector in Africa by drawing on
experience in Africa as well as other regions. The evidence
demonstrates...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 75663Date: March 11, 2013Author:
Byerlee, Derek ;
Garcia, Andres F. ;
Giertz, Asa ;
Palmade, Vincent
The World Bank has developed a novel
method for measuring countries connectivity in global
networks and has applied it to the global air transport
network. Connectivity...
Type: BriefReport#: 76189Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Arvis, Jean-Francois ;
Shepherd, Ben
There is a momentum in Egypt for a
critical assessment of pressing development challenges in
the aftermath of dramatic political shifts in the country.
This change is...
Type: BriefReport#: 75862Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Paradi-Guilford, Cecilia; Halewood, Naomi;
Wahby, Eman Fouad; Kouesney, Nehal Hassan El; Rossotto,
Carlo M.
In 2003, the Ministry of Rural
Rehabilitation and Development (MRRD), with the support of a
broad range of donor agencies, initiated the National
Solidarity Program...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131116Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Davin,Eric ;
Abdul-Malek,Aschkan ;
Carriere,Adrian
All weather, serviceable roads will be
vital to the resource corridor, particularly in its early
years. Export of initial production, or its distribution for
domestic...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 79731Date: March 1, 2013
Rising prices for basic food products
are back in the headlines and when food prices go up poor
consumers in Africa, who spend the majority of their income
on simple...
Type: BriefReport#: 76221Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Keyser, John
The services provided by investments in
road networks, railways and transit systems, and ports for
trade by air and water are important contributors to poverty
alleviation...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 77092Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Makino,Midori
This policy brief summarizes the
evaluation findings of a program in Zambia which sought to
enable the private sector to play a stronger role in malaria
diagnosis and...
Type: BriefReport#: 75738Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Bhatt,Sonal
The development objective of this India
Trade and Transport Facilitation Project is to facilitate
efficient transit and transport of goods traded between
Nepal and India....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 77038Date: March 1, 2013
The report posits a long-term vision for
Djiboutis economic development with specific measures that
form a road map for long term, sustainable growth. The
current growth...
Type: BriefReport#: 75861Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Benyagoub,Mehdi
In most of the Sub-Saharan African (SSA)
countries railways have played, throughout history, a key
part in the economic development maintaining a dominant role
in transporting...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 78672Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Olievschi, Vasile Nicolae
The objectives of environmental
assessment Second Gujarat State Highway Project is to
provide a clear assessment of potential environmental
impacts associated with project...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81124Date: March 1, 2013
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: urban poverty:
the new challenge, meeting people's basic needs,
anti-corruption efforts...
Terminals in which highway trucks
transfer their cargo into or out of rail wagons typically
include the following elements: a connection to one or more
railways; a connection...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 79732Date: March 1, 2013
While notoriously inefficient, fuel
subsidies are widespread, and in many cases politically
stable. This paper discusses and models various political
economy aspects...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6392Date: March 1, 2013Author:
Strand, Jon
At the IDA16 Mid-Term Review (MTR),
management raised the issue of how International Development
Association (IDA) can expand its role in facilitating the
preparation...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 75927Date: March 1, 2013
The Global Monitoring Report (GMR),
jointly produced by the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF), is an annual report card on the worlds
progress towards...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 75957Date: March 1, 2013
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
daily economics and financial market commentary newsletter
are as follows:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 78043Date: February 25, 2013Author:
Dennis,Allen Curtis K. ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Mohapatra,Sanket ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T.
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