The Global Road Safety Facility (GRSF)
plays a key role in improving road safety by supporting
effective road safety interventions, including the delivery
of technical...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 169225Date: January 1, 2021
Dairy, fisheries, and floriculture have
high potential to help women enterprises in southwestern
Bangladesh rise in the value chain. The World Bank examined
the production,...
Food for cities in Africa is changing
under the triple effect of growth demography, urbanization
and transformations in agricultural production and trade.
These changes...
Type: PublicationReport#: 156183Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Balineau,Gaëlle ;
Bauer,Arthur Louis David ;
Kessler, Martin ;
Madariaga,Nicole
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
and WEConnect International have partnered to boost market
access for women entrepreneurs by i) raising awareness on
the business...
Costa Rica ratified the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 and
has since developed and implemented national climate
policies in accordance...
The last year saw a surge of climate
change impacts across the globe, ranging from rising sea
levels to uncontrolled wildfires. Developing countries and
emerging economies...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 168569Date: January 1, 2021
This toolkit provides a compendium of
resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD)
stakeholders to navigate each phase of the TOD process:
Assessing, Enabling, Planning...
Type: ReportReport#: 133001Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Ollivier,Gerald Paul ;
Ghate,Ashish ;
Bankim,Kalra ;
Mehta,Prerna
Because trucks in Bangladesh and India
are not allowed to operate across the border, cargo is
transloaded at the border, and Indian trucks traveling
between northeast...
Type: PublicationReport#: 157295Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Herrera Dappe,Matias ;
Kunaka,Charles
Many cities have sought to replicate the
urban bus public-private partnership (PPP) structures that
succeeded at the beginning of the millennia, such as those
implemented...
India is the second largest country in
the world in terms of population and is rapidly catching up
to the People’s Republic of China. A rapidly increasing
population,...
Gender equality is central to the World
Bank Group’s (WBG) twin goals of ending extreme poverty and
increasing shared prosperity in a sustainable manner. Gender
inequality...
This book explores the economic and
broader societal rationale for using unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) or ‘drone’ technologies as a complement to the current
transport...
Over the past fifteen years, IFC has
invested in support of pioneering Temperature-Controlled
Logistics (TCL) companies in Asia. The experience gained
from these investments...
Type: BriefReport#: 156659Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Ksoll,Christian Daniel ;
Pulido,Daniel ;
Gupta,Harsh
Until recently, transport planning and
design were regarded as gender neutral that is, they were
assumed to benefit men and women equally. There is now
increasing recognition...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 157464Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Alam,Muneeza Mehmood ;
Cropper,Maureen L. ;
Herrera Dappe,Matias ;
Suri,Palak
The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked
country in Central Asia and is bordered by Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and China. It is farther from the sea
than any other...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157759Date: January 1, 2021
Most people don’t give much thought to
the issue of food quietly spoiling in warehouses and trucks
around the world. Yet the cost of such waste is massive,
whether it...
Type: BriefReport#: 156661Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Ksoll,Christian Daniel ;
Pulido,Daniel ;
Gupta,Harsh
Major Ghanaian cities are at a critical
point that will determine whether they become an engine of
or a burden on the country’s development. Ghana’s urban
areas contribute...
Type: PublicationReport#: 160221Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Arroyo Arroyo,Fatima ;
Peltier-Thiberge,Nicolas ;
Diouf,Ibou ;
Pawlowska,Agata E. ;
Foster,Vivien
Roads and water are generally seen as
enemies, with water responsible for most of the damage to
roads, and roads being a major cause of problems such as
erosion, waterlogging,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 160360Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Van Steenbergen,Frank W. M. ;
Arroyo Arroyo,Fatima ;
Rao,Kulwinder Singh ;
Hulluka,Taye Alemayehu ;
Woldemariam,Kifle Woldearegay ;
Deligianni, Anastasia
São Paulo is Latin America’s largest
city, with around 12.2 million inhabitants. It is part of
the São Paulo Metropolitan Region (Região Metropolitana de
São Paulo,...
Type: ReportReport#: 158639Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Svab,Haydée ;
Kohler Harkot,Marina ;
Moura Dos Santos,Beatriz
Decarbonizing transport is critical to
achieving the worlds climate change goals, as well as being
a key component of a sustainable, livable, and
energy-efficient city....
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