With an estimated population of 158.3
million people in 2010, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is
the most populous country in Africa and the seventh most
populous country...
In pursuing its goal of social and
economic development by investing in the private sector, the
International Finance Corporation (IFC) seeks to understand
how it can...
Report#: 82038Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Eggeling, Hedda ;
Kapstein,Ethan B. ;
Kim, Rene
Agriculture in Tanzania accounts for 28
percent of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
and employs 80 percent of its labor force. The sector is
also an important...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74167Date: November 1, 2012
This Global Environment Facility
(GEF)-Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) quarterly
newsletter includes the following headings: SUTP; promoting
Transit Oriented...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 75947Date: November 1, 2012
The Project Development Objective (PDO)
of the Shangrao Sanqingshan Airport Project in China is to
improve airline connectivity in Northeastern Jiangxi
Province and...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 74633Date: November 1, 2012
Fixed costs associated with learning
about demand and setting up distribution networks are
expected to be lower when there are more potential contacts
in the destination...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6279Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Bastos, Paulo ;
Silva, Joana
This paper outlines the contribution of
mobile sources to the urban air pollution problem in
Pakistan, particularly in Karachi, and examines a series of
options that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74769Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Sanchez-Triana, Ernesto ;
Afzal, Javaid ;
Faiz, Asif ;
Ali, Mir Hussain ;
Shuja, Asif
This paper outlines the South-East
Copper Segment Resource Corridor Pilot Study in Afghanistan,
providing summaries of the potential corridors that have so
far been...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 79695Date: November 1, 2012
Africa is not achieving its potential in
food trade. The growing demand for food in Africa is
increasingly being met by imports from the global market.
This coupled...
Type: BriefReport#: 76219Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Brenton, Paul
This is the final synthesis report of
the Low Carbon Growth Country Studies Program that was led
from 2007 to 2010. Developing countries are faced with the
dual challenge...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 73508Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Knight, Oliver [editor]
This paper examines the cost of
producing emission reduction credits under the Clean
Development Mechanism. Using project-specific data, cost
functions are estimated...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6262Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Rahman, Shaikh M. ;
Larson, Donald F. ;
Dinar, Ariel
Notions of urban prosperity and
modernity have always been closely associated with urban
form and transport. The skyline of a city, the presentation
of its buildings,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81985Date: November 1, 2012
This Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) assistance to consider options to
develop a new port in Maldives with private sector
participation. The...
The Uganda Support to Municipal
Infrastructure Development (USMID) program is designed as a
Program-for-Results (PforR) program building on the Local
Government Management...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 80876Date: November 1, 2012
Since 20031 Public-Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has been providing
technical assistance to the Republic of Serbia (Serbia). The
first request for...
Poverty reduction is a long-standing
development objective of many developing countries and their
aid donors, including the World Bank. To achieve this goal,
these countries...
Report#: 78676Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Banjo,George A. ;
Gordon,Henry F. ;
Riverson,John D.
The government of Sierra Leone is in the
fifth and final year of the implementation of the
country's second generation poverty reduction strategy
paper- The Agenda for...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 76522Date: November 1, 2012
Turkey is an upper-middle income country
with a population of 73 million. It has a diversified
economy with a strategic geographical position, located on
the southeastern...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 62581Date: October 31, 2012
Some of the headings included in this
issue are as follows: economic news; political news; sector
news; strategy, partnership, and dialogue; portfolio;
working together;...
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