This country level trade brief
summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database
as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the
food crisis and...
The transport system of a country has
long been acknowledged to be a necessary component in
facilitating economic development and poverty alleviation-it
is critical...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 82733Date: October 25, 2012
Doing Business in Italy 2013 is a new
subnational report of the Doing Business series. It measures
business regulations and their enforcement across 4
indicators in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74662Date: October 23, 2012
The Uruguay 2010-2014 budget Law set the
framework of Uruguay's road program. The budget law is
structured along 17 'programmatic areas'. Two
programmatic areas are...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74173Date: October 12, 2012
This Country Assistance Strategy
Progress Report (CAS PR) reviews and assesses the relevance
of the current World Bank CAS for Cameroon and proposes
readjustments to...
Type: CAS Progress ReportReport#: 72612Date: October 2, 2012
Since 2001 Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has been providing technical
assistance to the Government of Rwanda to develop the
country's infrastructure...
The Ministry of minerals and energy and
the ministry of public enterprises requested Public-Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) support in 2000 to
organize...
The Central America region is a small
market. The region contains around 43 million inhabitants
(0.6 percent of total world population) who generate around
0.25 percent...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 75070Date: October 1, 2012
Tajikistan is one of the world's
most remittance-dependent economies, receiving net
remittance inflows equivalent to approximately 40 percent of
Gross Domestic Product...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 73715Date: October 1, 2012Author:
Qurbonova,Zuhro ;
Zaidi, Salman
Biomass is the most important source of
energy in Rwanda, especially for domestic cooking. Today
approximately 86 percent of primary energy comes from
biomass, mainly...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 83037Date: October 1, 2012
Since 2001 Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has been providing technical
assistance to the Government of Armenia to set up a
multi-sector regulatory...
This Romania external newsletter issue
included following topics: In the spotlight; Romania
economic update ; news in Romania; news from the World Bank;
and did you...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 80805Date: October 1, 2012
Public Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) completed one activity in Djibouti that
assessed the institutional options to manage urban
electricity, water...
Improving the effectiveness of
development assistance in Fragile and Conflict affected
Countries (FCCs) is a strategic priority for the World Bank
and one of the four...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 73466Date: October 1, 2012
This paper develops a framework for the
quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics,
mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow
a stochastic...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6254Date: October 1, 2012Author:
Krebs, Tom ;
Krishna, Pravin ;
Maloney, William F.
Haiti remains the poorest country in the
Americas and one of the poorest in the world, with
significant needs in basic services. It is also one of the
most unequal,...
Public Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) has been providing support to the
government of Lesotho since 2001 when PPIAF was asked to
provide technical...
This paper examines the processes used
in the United States and Mexico to assess the economic costs
and benefits of environmental improvement, the kinds of
information...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6242Date: October 1, 2012Author:
Harrington, Winston ;
Morgenstern, Richard ;
Velez-Lopez. Daniel
The Republic of Colombia is an upper
middle-income country, with a population of approximately 46
million people and a gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita
of $7,131...
This paper surveys the state of
knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences
of a country's development strategy along three
channels: (i) direct trade-environment...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6236Date: October 1, 2012Author:
de Melo, Jaime
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