Despite a once fast-growing economy,
Gujarat province was facing an economic decline that was not
being helped by its poor road conditions and a growing
population of...
The Africa Infrastructure Country
Diagnostic (AICD) has gathered and analyzed extensive data
on infrastructure in around 40 Sub-Saharan countries,
including the Democratic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62386Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Benitez, Daniel Alberto
Infrastructure contributed just over one
percentage point to Ghana's improved per capita growth
performance during the 2000s, though unreliable power
supplies held growth...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62388Date: March 1, 2010
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#: 62389Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Shkaratan,Maria
Geohazards can result in significant
loss of human life as well as cause extensive damage to
infrastructure. The magnitude and frequency of geohazard
events ranges from...
Type: BriefReport#: 56749Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Muzira, Stephen ;
Humphreys, Martin ;
Pohl, Wolfhart
Liberia's 14-year civil war left
much of the country's infrastructure shambles. The
country's 170 megawatt power generation capacity and
national grid were completely...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62390Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Pushak, Nataliya
Infrastructure contributed 1.2
percentage points to the annual per capita growth of
Malawi's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past
decade, thanks mainly to the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62391Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Shkaratan, Maria
The Government of Malawi has since 2005
been pursuing a growth strategy mainly based on increasing
the volume of agricultural exports. This entails that Malawi
should...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5242Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Keyser,John C. ;
Tchale,Hardwick
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: a drought
adaptation initiative in Andhra Pradesh; development
dialogue: a pilot project...
A little over 10 years ago, only
slightly more than one quarter of Peruvians living in rural
areas had access to a road in good condition, hampering
their efforts to...
Governments in developing countries and
members of the development aid community are acutely aware
of the need to find more effective ways to improve basic
living conditions...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53644Date: February 25, 2010Author:
Mumssen, Yogita ;
Johannes, Lars ;
Kumar, Geeta
This Results Profile focuses on
transport in Colombia. Public transportation in Colombia was
traditionally perceived as inefficient, unsafe, and
polluting. The streets...
The purpose of this note is to provide
the International Comparison Program (ICP) 2011 Technical
Advisory Group with an overview of the status of
collaboration between...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90441Date: February 19, 2010
The objective of the paper is to
determine whether there should be some adjustments to
exchange rates to reflect differences in costs such as
freight charges. The starting...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90467Date: February 19, 2010Author:
McCart, Paul ;
Sergeev, Sergey
This model is designed to calculate unit
road user costs adopting the Fourth Highway Development and
Management Model (HDM-4) version two relationships for
speeds, travel...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84200Date: February 18, 2010
There are currently nine active
public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure in the
region. The degree of poverty vulnerability in the Middle
East and North Africa...
Many investments in infrastructure are
built on the belief that they will ineluctably lead to
poverty reduction and income generation. This has entailed
massive aid-financed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5209Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Gachassin, Marie ;
Najman, Boris ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
Guinea has exceptional subsoil
potential. The bauxite deposits of Guinea are estimated at
about one third of the world's known reserves. Guinea
has also about 3 billion...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 72373Date: February 1, 2010
The "distance effect"
measuring the elasticity of trade flows to distance has been
rising since the early 1970s in a host of studies based on
the gravity model, leading...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5214Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Carrere, Celine ;
de Melo, Jaime ;
Wilson, John
Argentinean export growth was impressive
during the recent economic boom (2003-2007). However,
decomposing export growth reveals that the extensive margin
(increases...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5221Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Anos Casero,Paloma ;
Rollo,Valentina
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