This fire life and safety you newsletter
includes the following headings: be prepared before a fire
occurs; if you observe fire, smoke or unusual heat; and
prevent fire...
Following the Great East Japan
Earthquake (GEJE), the government of Japan responded
promptly to stabilize markets and ensure a swift recovery.
Economic activity has...
Parts of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), the
northeastern most administrative region of Pakistan, have
been undergoing a dramatic transformation over the last
three decades....
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 74395Date: March 1, 2011
Since 2000 Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has funded 21 activities in Kenya
worth $5.7 million. Three of these activities have been
funded under...
Infrastructure improvements contributed
0.6 percentage points to Zambia's annual per capital
GDP growth over the past decade, mostly because of
exponential growth in...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5599Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Dominguez Torres,Carolina ;
Foster,Vivien
Infrastructure contributed just over one
percentage point to Ghana's annual per capital GDP
growth during the 2000s. Raising the countrys
infrastructure endowment to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5600Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Pushak,Nataliya
The railways of South East Europe and
Turkey experienced significant declines in traffic volumes
in 2009. This reflected the impact of the international
financial crisis...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 60223Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Monsalve, Carolina
Nigeria is Africa's most populous
country and second largest economy after South Africa. This
note is based on a study of the effect of multiple levels of
taxation at...
Type: BriefReport#: 63801Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Hoppe,Mombert ;
Pitigala,Upali Nihal
The global economic recession of 2009
hit the air transport industry hard. Globally, airlines lost
US$ 9.9 billion, passenger traffic fell by 2.1 percent,
cargo dropped...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 67839Date: March 1, 2011
Building an effective air quality
management system (AQMS) requires a process of continual
improvement, and the source apportionment techniques
described in this report...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 81740Date: March 1, 2011Author:
Johnson, Todd M. ;
Guttikunda, Sarath ;
Wells, Gary J. ;
Artaxo, Paulo ;
Bond, Tami C. ;
Russell, Armistead G. ;
Watson, John G. ;
West, Jason
The overall objective of the study is to
support the decentralization implementation process in the
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) by proposing courses of
action...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 68553Date: February 28, 2011
This Country Partnership Strategy
Progress Report (CPSPR) assesses the implementation at
midpoint of Bank's country partnership strategy with
Argentina. The Country...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 59222Date: February 24, 2011
The Executive Directors approved the
Credit for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge Project for the
Peoples' Republic of Bangladesh in the amount of
SDR779.3 million (US$1.2...
Type: Board SummaryReport#: 59874Date: February 24, 2011
This study attempts to quantify the
benefits that could be obtained for the country of
Afghanistan from the developments of the Aynak copper and
Hajigak iron ore deposits...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 68259Date: February 22, 2011
In order to establish the regulatory
framework for a market with more than one operator,
Jankulovski’s Infrastructure Company published a
network statement describing...
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: the
current political...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 89631Date: February 10, 2011
This Country Assistance Strategy
Progress Report (CAS PR) assesses the implementation of the
World Bank's FY09-12 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS)
for Rwanda. The CAS...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 58075Date: February 9, 2011
This review examines the implementation
of the country partnership strategy (CPS) that was discussed
by the Board on April 24, 2007 and covered the period July
1, 2006...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 89061Date: February 9, 2011
This study assesses the natural gas
market in Peru. In the process of evaluating the downstream
market, the study identifies opportunities for meeting the
Governments...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 69289Date: February 7, 2011
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