The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) faces
difficult choices in managing the size of its civil service
wage bill. The Government understands the need to watch the
escalating...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 72004Date: August 11, 2010
Greater Beirut has been facing a deficit
in potable water for the past forty years. In 1970 the
Lebanese Government of the day passed a decree (presidential
decree no....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 56226Date: August 6, 2010
An approach to estimating the costs of
adapting to climate change is presented along with results
for major components of infrastructure. The analysis
separates the...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 56660Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Hughes, Gordon ;
Chinowsky, Paul ;
Strzepek, Ken
Across West Africa, infrastructure
improvements most notably in the information and
communications technology (ICT) sector have contributed some
0.9 percentage points...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62754Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M. ;
Benitez, Daniel Alberto
This report is the output of the World
Bank-financed study on Making Transport Climate Resilient
for Mozambique, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to
respond...
Type: Strategic Environmental Assessment/AnalysisReport#: 69392Date: August 1, 2010
This report is the output of the World
Bank-financed study on Making Trans-port Climate Resilient
for Ethiopia, which is a Sub-Saharan Africa initiative to
respond to...
The Government of Burkina Faso (GoBF)
has indicated that it wishes to relocate the current
international airport of Ouagadougou, which lies close to
the centre of the...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70067Date: August 1, 2010
Climate change is a new and important
challenge to development strategies. In light of the current
literature a framework for assessing responses to this
challenge is...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76809Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Lecocq,Franck Michel ;
Shalizi,Zmarak
Recent increases in production of
crop-based (or first-generation) biofuels have engendered
increasing concerns over potential conflicts with food
supplies and land...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5406Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Carriquiry,Miguel Alberto ;
Du, Xiaodong ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
The development objective of the Hajia
Railway Project for China is to reduce the transport time
for passenger services and provide additional capacity for
passenger...
The Republic of Yemen has experienced
steady development in the recent past and its Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) per capita is approaching US$1,000. By many
aspects,...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 49175Date: August 1, 2010
This Brazil quarterly knowledge report
newsletter includes some of the following headings: social
assistance and shocks: the food crisis and CCT's by
Fruttero, Anna;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57495Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Lopes Mendes De Azeredo,Mauro ;
Cordella,Tito ;
Diop,Makhtar ;
Firmo,Marcio Gold ;
Fruttero,Anna ;
Levy,Evelyn ;
Finkelfarb Lichand,Guilherme ;
Dos Santos,Denise Marinho ;
Rocha,Romero C. Barreto ;
Velloso,Tarsila Ortenzio ;
Ximenes De Vasconcelos,Jivago Bezerra
The Government of Burkina Faso (GoBF)
has indicated that it wishes to relocate the current
international airport of Ouagadougou, which lies close to
the centre of the...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 70067Date: August 1, 2010
This is summarizes the policy-relevant
insights of a generation of research on scale economies.
Scale economies in production are of three types: internal
economies...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76808Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Gill,Indermit S. ;
Goh, Chor-Ching
This press release announces on July 27,
2010, that the High Level Donors Meeting for the Kyrgyz
Republic was held in Bishkek, bringing together
representatives of the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169649Date: July 27, 2010
This press release announces that
China’s drive to develop cities that are more energy and
resource efficient was boosted on July 22, 2010 with the
approval of a grant...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169420Date: July 22, 2010
In the last two decades new emphasis has
been given to the economic impact of geography, especially
on the cost of being landlocked. From a development
perspective,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55837Date: July 7, 2010Author:
Arvis,Jean Francois ;
Marteau,Jean-Francois ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
The development objectives of the
proposed Project are: (a) to increase the transport carrying
capacity and throughput of the Shaying River; (b) to improve
the cost-efficiency...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 56505Date: July 1, 2010
A high-speed rail service can deliver
competitive advantage over airlines for journeys of up to
about 3 hours or 750 km, particularly between city pairs
where airports...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 55856Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Amos, Paul; Bullock, Dick; Sondhi, Jitendra;
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