This report argues that sustained growth
is necessary to achieve the urgent development needs of the
world's poor and that there is substantial scope for
growing cleaner...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 69125Date: January 1, 2012
The growth of India's manufacturing
sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade
liberalization and more permissive industrial licensing.
This paper demonstrates...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5948Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Arnold,Jens Matthias ;
Javorcik,Beata ;
Lipscomb, Molly ;
Mattoo,Aaditya
Uganda has started its journey into
urbanization and economic development. The pace of
urbanization is picking up currently at 4.5 percent per
year, and likely to accelerate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69523Date: January 1, 2012
During the recent financial crisis more
than a quarter of enterprises in North America and Europe
that use third party logistics service providers decided to
shorten...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70235Date: January 1, 2012
This report outlines these findings,
including damage and loss estimates and social and economic
impacts, and proposes strategies for resilient recovery and
reconstruction...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69822Date: January 1, 2012
As the world recovers only slowly from
the 2008 financial crisis and Europe is facing a looming
debt crisis, concerns have increased that the "new
normal" -- a period...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5940Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Lin, Justin Yifu ;
Doemeland, Doerte
This policy note provides an overview of
policy issues pertaining to the public supply chain of
essential drugs in Zambia. It gives an overview of the main
results of...
Type: Other Health StudyReport#: 71856Date: January 1, 2012
These notes used enterprise survey data
from 46,556 manufacturing and services enterprises in 106
countries from the following regions: Sub-Saharan Africa
(AFR), East...
Current growth patterns are not just
unsustainable, they are also inefficient. Therein lays the
potential for green growth, growth that is efficient, clean
and resilient....
The study focuses on the organizational,
technical, and management issues associated with the
restructuring, and commercialization of Road Agencies in
seven countries:...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 71789Date: January 1, 2012Author:
Pinard, Michael Ian
The city of Visakhapatnam has
implemented a number of reforms including e-governance and
citizen-friendly initiatives. Vizag has been the first city
in the country to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73224Date: January 1, 2012
The development objective of Road
Infrastructure and Safety Project in Bosnia and Herzegovina
was to reduce user costs on the priority sections of the
trunk and regional...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 105251Date: December 31, 2011
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has been
involved in developing South Asia’s tourism enabling
environment for more than a decade. From 2002-2004 the ADB
provided the tourism...
Type: ReportReport#: 139414Date: December 31, 2011
This Results Profile talks about
transforming Croatia's Rijeka port and city. Rijeka is
one of the largest private terminal operators in the world.
The long term plan...
This report presents the findings of a
first-ever, comprehensive study of how Latin America and the
Caribbean (LAC) region airports have evolved during a
notable period...
Type: PublicationReport#: 66236Date: December 20, 2011Author:
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
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