Many opportunities for trade of the
Mashreq (Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon and Syria)
countries are being lost because of inefficient trade
facilitation processes...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 68678Date: April 11, 2011
This transport sector action plan
provides help in the preparation of the transport section of
the 11th Five Year Plan. It does this in three areas. The
first is on...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68746Date: April 7, 2011
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
daily brief economics and financial market commentary
newsletter are...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 62174Date: April 5, 2011Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
This Results Profile talks about
strengthening the banking system to promote rural
investments in Vietnam. Term lending to rural areas was
insufficient to lift a large...
This companion note for gender and
infrastructure tools is a joint report of the Sustainable
Development Network Gender Group (SDN Gender). It provides
insight into...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68745Date: April 1, 2011
International Development Association
(IDA) has been Sierra Leones key source of continued and
reliable development assistance since the country joined the
World Bank...
A decline in organized public transport
systems has led to rapid growth in non-conventional means of
public transport, initially provided by minibuses and shared
taxi/vans,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 66941Date: April 1, 2011Author:
Kumar, Ajay
Physical infrastructure at ports and
port activities may be highly vulnerable to changes in
climate. For instance, the risks could manifest through
changes in the level...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62641Date: April 1, 2011Author:
Stenek,Vladimir
The Kingdom of Morocco has put in place
an ambitious energy strategy aimed at addressing energy
import dependency through a program of important investments
in renewable....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 63550Date: April 1, 2011
Important economic and structural
reforms, supported by the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund (IMF) helped Benin sustain growth rates
averaging 4.7 percent...
The Gender Action Plan (GAP) offered
incentives in the form of budget support to well-designed
projects in difficult sectors looking to add a gender-lens;
it rigorously...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 89694Date: April 1, 2011Author:
Ehrenpreis, Malcolm ;
Brearley, Emily ;
Coblyn, Pam ;
Faber, Anna
Mongolia was hit hard by the global
economic recession, notably the fall in commodity prices.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 1.6 percent in
2009 after growth...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 65163Date: April 1, 2011Author:
Heltberg,Rasmus ;
Reva,Anna ;
Sarantuya, J. ;
Sodnomtseren, Altantsetseg
Mali is one of the poorest countries in
the world and faces many development challenges. IDA is
supporting Mali in addressing its economic challenges with a
focus on...
This paper provides an update of the
sources and uses of International Development Association
(IDA) resources during FY10, the second year of the IDA15
replenishment...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 61144Date: April 1, 2011
This appendix to the main report (62641)
focuses on observed climate variability and future climate
change in Colombia. Physical infrastructure at ports and
port activities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62642Date: April 1, 2011Author:
Stenek,Vladimir
This Global Environment Facility
(GEF)-Sustainable Urban Transport Project (SUTP) newsletter
includes the following headings: national project directors
note; NRDA:...
The purpose of the report is to
disseminate information on the implications of electric
vehicle adoption in China. This report is one of a series
developed as part of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61259Date: April 1, 2011
This is an executive summary to the main
report (62641). Physical infrastructure at ports and port
activities may be highly vulnerable to changes in climate.
For instance,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62643Date: April 1, 2011Author:
Stenek,Vladimir
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