The efficiency and productivity of
Colombia's urban system will be a key determinant in
the ability of the country to transition from a middle
income to a higher-income...
Type: Other Urban StudyReport#: 72462Date: September 11, 2012Author:
Lozano Gracia,Nancy ;
Panman,Alexandra Patricia ;
Samad,Taimur
Executive Directors approved the
restructuring of the Lesotho Integrated Transport Project
and additional financing on the payment terms and conditions
set out in the...
Type: Board SummaryReport#: 72465Date: September 11, 2012
The development objective of the Mato
Grosso do Sul State Road Transport Project for Brazil is to
improve the efficiency of the Borrowers road network in the
project...
This report is a product of the seventh
meeting of the 2011 ICP Technical Advisory Group (TAG) that
was held from September 17 to 18, 2012 at the World Bank in
Washington,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90726Date: September 6, 2012Author:
Inklaar, Robert; Timmer, Marcel
A literature review shows that
competition policy reforms allow markets to work more
efficiently for the benefit of consumers and drive
sustainable economic growth....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 73637Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Kitzmuller,Markus ;
Martinez Licetti,Martha
Public facilities and infrastructure can
be built in such a way as to reduce disaster risks and serve
as disaster risk management facilities. Roads, expressways,
and...
Type: BriefReport#: 79360Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Sagara, Junko
In response to the Great East Japan
Earthquake (GEJE) disaster, relief goods were distributed
and delivered through prefectural- and municipal-level
depots. This delivery...
Type: BriefReport#: 79374Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Okumura, Makoto
Botswana has been one of the most
successful countries in the developing world over the last
40 years by many measures. Incomes have grown at a sustained
pace, poverty...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 73049Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Partow,Zeinab
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: the importance of
early childhood care and education; development dialogue:
inclusive...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 74604Date: September 1, 2012
In response to the Great East Japan
Earthquake (GEJE), domestic and international assistance
initiatives were launched by a large number of public and
private sectors...
National Risk and Vulnerability
Assessment (NRVA) survey 2007/08 estimated that the overall
poverty headcount rate for Afghanistan was at 36 percent of
the total population...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131051Date: September 1, 2012
Yemen's political and security
crises have exacted a terrible toll on its people in terms
of human losses, poverty, malnutrition, and economic
decline. Emerging from...
Type: BriefReport#: 73008Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Stone, Andrew ;
Badawy, Lina ;
Assaf, Nabila
In 2011, 89 new infrastructure projects
reached financial or contractual closure in 12 low and
middle income countries in Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC) region:...
Type: BriefReport#: 84022Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Jett,Alexander Nicholas
The Japanese experience shows that if
done right- preventive investments pay. The Japanese
government invested about 7 to 8 percent of the total budget
for disaster...
Type: BriefReport#: 79392Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Sagara,Junko ;
Toyama, Masato
Social infrastructure and public
utilities are critical for quick and effective disaster
response and recovery. Japan's rigorous seismic
reinforcement of infrastructure...
Type: BriefReport#: 79380Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Ishiwatari,Mikio ;
Sagara,Junko
Community evacuation measures should be
the centerpiece of disaster risk management (DRM) systems.
Because the Sanriku region has suffered from frequent
tsunamis, its...
At present, the Liberia Reconstruction
Trust Fund (LRTF) includes total cash contributions
(including investment income) of about US $149,552,156.80
million. Total project-level...
This completion report is a
self-assessment of the FY09-12 India Country Strategy
(referred to as the CAS) discussed by the Executive
Directors in December 2008 and...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 82697Date: September 1, 2012
In 2011, 85 new infrastructure projects
reached financial or contractual closure in lower and
upper-middle income countries in the East Asia and the
Pacific (EAP) region:...
Type: BriefReport#: 84027Date: September 1, 2012Author:
Verink,Bastiaan Johan
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