This final report describes the tasks
undertaken, and the methodology used, for the implementation
of the monitoring program on small scale mining in
Albania.The tasks...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70196Date: December 31, 2009Author:
Cukalla,Martin
Maize is the most important staple food
in the Eastern Africa region and the most widely traded
agricultural commodity. Therefore, the performance of grain
markets has...
Type: Other Agricultural StudyReport#: 49831Date: December 31, 2009
This country level trade brief
summarizes insights from the world trade indicators database
as well as analyzes national impacts and responses to the
food crisis and...
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved eight million fifty-three thousand US
dollars grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF),
to be implemented...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167118Date: December 29, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved thirty-eight million US dollars grant
from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) for the
Sustainable transport...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167162Date: December 28, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on December 22,
2009, approved a supplemental International Development
Association (IDA)...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165750Date: December 22, 2009
This press release announces that the
Republic of Korea prepaid in its entirety its outstanding
debt of thirty-three million five hundred thousand US
dollars million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167522Date: December 16, 2009
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#: 61515Date: December 15, 2009Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
One of the most compelling reasons for
pursuing low-carbon development is that the potential
impacts of climate change are predicted to be severe, for
both industrial...
Type: PublicationReport#: 52458Date: December 14, 2009Author:
Johnson, Todd M. ;
Alatorre, Claudio ;
Romo, Zayra ;
Liu, Feng
This is the executive summary of the
main documents prepared for the Sao Paulo Metro to comply
with the environmental safeguards procedures for the
construction of the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 52305Date: December 14, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank on December 10, 2009, approved two projects worth
four hundred five million US dollars to India, designed to
promote...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165713Date: December 10, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved one
hundred ninety million US dollars International Development
Association...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165565Date: December 10, 2009
This press release announces that
Siemens AG will distribute funds totaling one hundred
million US dollars, over fifteen years, to nonprofit
organizations worldwide...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167528Date: December 9, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Directors approved two grants for a
total of twenty-four million five hundred thousand US
dollars to support...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167345Date: December 8, 2009
The World Bank's world development
report 2010 on climate change and development commissioned
an international poll of public attitudes to climate change.
The poll is...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52066Date: December 3, 2009
This press release announces on December
3, 2009, a new poll of fifteen nations, most of them in the
developing world, finds that majorities of the people
canvassed...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165458Date: December 3, 2009
The Multilateral Development Banks
(MDBs) collectively are ready, in collaboration with other
international financial institutions, United Nation (UN)
agencies and other...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76311Date: December 2, 2009
Private activity in infrastructure in
Latin America and the Caribbean showed mixed results in
2008, according to just-released data from the Private
Participation in...
Type: BriefReport#: 53067Date: December 1, 2009Author:
Izaguirre, Ada Karina ; Jett, Alexander Nicholas
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