Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: 164 km road opens
up Mizoram's farflung and poor interior; 2010 South
Asia economic...
The literature on the correlation
between exports and economic development runs deep into the
history of economic thought and permeates policy debates.
This paper studies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5376Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Lederman, Daniel ;
Rodriguez-Clare, Andres ;
Yi Xu, Daniel
In this paper the authors compare
indicators of development, infrastructure, and living
conditions in the slums of Dakar, Nairobi, and Johannesburg
using data from 2004...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5388Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Gulyani,Sumila ;
Jack,Darby Whitfield ;
Talukdar, Debabrata
The Baltic States; Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania and Poland are situated along strategic trade
corridors within Europe, constituting the EU's eastern
border with Russia...
Type: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows StudyReport#: 55844Date: July 1, 2010
This study examines the relationship
between transport infrastructure and agriculture in
Sub-Saharan Africa using new data obtained from geographic
information systems...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5385Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Dorosh,Paul A. ;
Schmidt,Emily M. ;
Wang,Hyoung Gun ;
You, Liang
As in many countries of the Europe and
Central Asia Region (ECA), vehicle ownership in Russia has
grown faster in the last decade than the decline in the rate
of fatalities...
Type: BriefReport#: 56707Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Marquez, Patricio V. ;
Bliss, Anthony G.
The literature on the relationship
between economic diversification and development has grown
rapidly in recent years, partly due to the surprising
finding that diversification...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5366Date: July 1, 2010Author:
Klinger, Bailey ;
Lederman, Daniel
The goal of the Congo, Democratic
Republic of (DRC's) trade policy is to create a
regulatory, fiscal and institutional environment in which
domestic and foreign trade...
Type: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows StudyReport#: 59561Date: July 1, 2010
In this issue: message from the
inspection panel chair; the role of the panel process in
problem solving; latest request from inspection; cases at
eligibility; ongoing...
Sri Lanka's ten-year development
framework aims at accelerating economic growth while
ensuring a path of sustainable development and prioritizing
conservation of the...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69084Date: June 30, 2010
One of the major engines for economic
growth in Vietnam over the past 15 years has been industry.
Since 1990 the industrial sector has grown an average of 10
percent...
Vietnam's growing economy relies
heavily on its transport infrastructure for a variety of
purposes, from meeting the daily needs of its people, to
supporting tourism...
This note attempts to analyze and
tentatively answer these questions by focusing on the
drivers of growth and productivity, labor markets and
enterprise restructuring,...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 54371Date: June 25, 2010
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#: 61624Date: June 24, 2010Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
For the purposes of this book,
"open skies" refers to a bilateral or multilateral
air service agreement that liberalizes the rules for
international aviation markets...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 55200Date: June 23, 2010Author:
Schlumberger, Charles E.;
The policy notes have two objectives:
(i) to present the incoming government team with a menu of
policy options in areas where the World Bank has local and
international...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 54939Date: June 22, 2010
This press release announces that Brazil
could reduce its gross greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by up
to 37 percent between 2010 and 2030, while at the same time
maintaining...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169758Date: June 17, 2010
When the G-20 leaders met on 24-25
September 2009 in Pittsburgh, USA, they agreed in their
Communiqué that, building on the efforts of many countries
to, reduce fossil...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76074Date: June 16, 2010
The Province of Buenos Aires has
historically been the most important of all 23 Argentine
provinces. Following Argentina's independence in 1816
and the development of...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 52601Date: June 16, 2010
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