This paper investigates the optimal
timing of greenhouse gas abatement efforts in a
multi-sectoral model with economic inertia, each sector
having a limited abatement...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6154Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Meunier,Lola Guylaine Dany J C L S P P ;
Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille
This paper analyzes the effects of
all-weather rural roads on households' net output
prices, education and health in a poor, drought-prone region
of India. Of 30 villages...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6167Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Bell,Clive L.G. ;
Van Dillen,Susanne
China's road network is quickly
expanding and the number of new drivers is growing rapidly,
increasing the need to improve the road safety of new and
existing road projects...
Type: BriefReport#: 72893Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Deng, Fei ;
Jordan, Phillip ;
Goodge, Mike
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau
(Guinea-Bissau), with a population of 1.6 million, is
emerging from a prolonged period of civil strife that has
left the country one of...
Tourism is one of Latin America's
fastest growing industries but the impact of tourism on the
poor and the effects on lagging regions are under debate.
Many studies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6183Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Dorosh,Paul A. ;
Klytchnikova,Irina I.
In the next 10 years or so, the
infrastructure sector has the potential to generate
significant employment. This paper estimates annual job
creation of about 2.0 million...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6164Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Foucart,Renaud Thierry Jean ;
Garsous,Gregoire ;
Ianchovichina,Elena ;
Yepes Delgado,Tito
India's rural roads program,
Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana, aims to draw villagers
into the mainstream by improving not only their terms of
trade, but also their...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6168Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Bell,Clive L.G.
All-weather rural roads usually improve
not only villagers' terms of trade, but also their
educational attainments and health. Obtaining empirical
estimates of the benefits...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6169Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Bell,Clive L.G.
Farm-gate buying by small itinerant
buyers is the dominant mode of primary marketing in
Tanzania's maize market. This paper estimates the
effect of household distance...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6172Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Mahdi,Shireen
The development objective for the
Liaoning Coastal Economic Sustainable Development Project
for China is to support priority investments to improve the
efficiency of...
The promotion of private sector
participation in the development of infrastructure has long
been the goal of the Government of Senegal since the early
1990s. First generation...
The report presents the findings of a
study conducted in July 2012 of the application of World
Bank safeguard policies to projects supported by the
Multi-Donor Trust...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 80976Date: August 1, 2012Author:
Gross,Daniel R. ;
Kardash, Abdelmoneim
The objectives of the Local Authorities
Development Program Project for Senegal are to: (a)
strengthen the capacity of urban municipalities to improve
resource mobilization,...
The objectives of the Local Authorities
Development Program Project for Senegal are to: (a)
strengthen the capacity of urban municipalities to improve
resource mobilization,...
Infrastructure plays a key role in
providing equal access to economic opportunities and social
services. Infrastructure projects have been a large portion
of the World...
Agriculture is the backbone of the
Rwandan economy: between 2006 and 2010 it accounted for 35
percent of GDP; 45 percent of export earnings and, according
to the latest...
This report is structured as follows.
Chapter one analyzes the performance of Kazakhstans trade.
Chapter two presents an overview of recent developments in
Kazakhstan...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76339Date: July 10, 2012Author:
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T.
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