This report was undertaken in the wake
of the Ketsana Disaster, to assess damage, losses, and
resource requirements for recovery. Typhoon Ketsana hit
Cambodia between...
Type: Other Public Sector StudyReport#: 68953Date: March 1, 2010
This note provides an update of the
sources and uses of International Development Association
(IDA) resources during FY09, the first year of the IDA15
replenishment...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 53687Date: March 1, 2010
Infrastructure improvements contributed
0.6 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of
Zambia's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past
decade, mostly because...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62392Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Dominguez, Carolina
Heavy goods vehicle overloading is a
serious problem across much of Sub-Saharan Africa. Such
overloading not only significantly accelerates the rate of
deterioration...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 66935Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Pinard, Michael lan
The main purpose of an appraisal
framework for transport infrastructure projects and programs
is to provide an objective and transparent basis for
decision-makers to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56955Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Veron,Adrien J.
Mobility is a major factor in access to
economic resources, education, health, and other key
elements influencing women's empowerment. In Middle
East and North African...
Type: BriefReport#: 53378Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Aljounaidi, Lamis
The March 24, 2010 ministerial
consultation to discuss regional cooperation and integration
initiatives for the Arab world was a key milestone in the
Arab world initiative,...
Type: BriefReport#: 54015Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Akhtar, Shamshad
Argentina's road sector remains
under significant pressure to deliver high-quality services,
with traffic growing at an unprecedented 40 percent since
2003. This growth...
This note aims at providing feedback on
Brazil's successful experience in using performance
based contracts in the rehabilitation and maintenance of the
road networks....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56957Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Lancelot,Eric R.
This newsletter includes some of the
following headings: a dark side of financial integration:
the global crisis transmission to Brazil, by Tatiana Didier;
as diverse...
Report#: 57494Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Lopes Mendes De Azeredo,Mauro ;
Didier Brandao,Tatiana ;
Diop,Makhtar ;
Rebelo,Jorge M. ;
Rocha,Romero C. Barreto
Construction governance failures can
lead to the construction of the wrong infrastructure, poor
quality construction, and excessively high prices for work.
There is...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5247Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Kenny,Charles J.
The paper aims to provide guidance for
both transport and gender specialists on how to mainstream
gender-related considerations into road transport projects
to improve...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56954Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Julie Babinard ;
John Hine ;
Simon Ellis ;
Satoshi Ishihara
The Paraguay-Parana rivers waterway
system (referred to in the text as the Hidrovia, or HPP) is
potentially the greatest axis for freight movement in the
sub-region...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 54900Date: March 1, 2010
Albania has made considerable progress
since transition in overcoming the legacy of nearly forty
years of autarky. But despite significant progress and some
of the fastest...
Type: BriefReport#: 56745Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Humphreys, Martin ;
Guxho, Artan ;
Ishihara, Satoshi
This report reviews and recommends
strategies to regulate the trade of wildlife through
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Ulaanbaatar is an ideal site to
launch an effort to support...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63756Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Fine, Amanda ;
Odonchimeg, N. ;
Scharf, Katie
This study is a product of the Africa
Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project designed
to expand the world's knowledge of physical
infrastructure in Africa....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62385Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Pushak, Nataliya
Today, Brazil has the second longest
highway network under private concessions in the world. This
paper analyzes Brazil's experience under the two first
phases of the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 56956Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Cellier,Jacques L. ;
Veron,Adrien J.
In the past, Colombia faced urban
transport problems that significantly lowered the quality of
life of urban Colombians. Starting in the late 1990s, the
programa nacional...
Infrastructure contributed 0.6
percentage points to Ethiopia's annual per capita gross
domestic product (GDP) growth over the last decade. Raising
the country's infrastructure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62387Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Morella,Elvira
This regional study takes twelve
oil-importing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and asks the
following two questions: does each stage in the supply
chain, from import...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 54927Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Kojima, Masami; Matthews, William; Sexsmith, Fred;
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