Urbanization is a defining phenomenon of
this century, and the developing world is the locus of this
demographic transformation. Nearly two billion new urban
residents...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51860Date: November 1, 2009
What are the main determinants of
transport costs: network access or competition among
transport providers? The focus in the transport sector has
often been on improving...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5133Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Lall,Somik V. ;
Munthali,Thomas ;
Wang,Hyoung Gun
There is growing clamor in industrial
countries for additional border taxes on imports from
countries with lower carbon prices. The authors confirm the
findings of other...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5123Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Mattoo, Aaditya ;
Subramanian, Arvind ;
van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique ;
He, Jianwu
This study used the data gathered during
a previous World Bank project to assess the available
options for the cost-effective reconstruction and
rehabilitation of livestock...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69785Date: November 1, 2009
In recent years, there has been an
increasing recognition that significant welfare gains could
be realized through deep forms of regional integration which
entail harmonization...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5126Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Kessides, Ioannis N. ;
Noll, Roger G. ;
Benjamin, Nancy C.
China is experiencing rapid and large
scale urbanization, and the resulting local and global urban
environmental challenges are unprecedented. The Chinese
Government...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59012Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Chen, Mansha ;
Dastur, Arish ;
Zhang, Yabei ;
Filewood, Richard ;
Al-Jamal, Khairy ;
Randale, Monali ;
Pinnoi, Nat ;
Peterson, Charles ;
Baeumler, Axel
Xiamen has sustained one of the fastest
economic growths in China. After a decline in
commercialactivity in the mid-20th century, it was selected
in 1980 as one of the...
2009 has been a difficult year, with
larger-than-expected losses in output and employment and a
sharp rise in poverty. But the Russian economy, aided by
higher oil prices...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51699Date: November 1, 2009
The Republic of Belarus officially
acceded to the Stockholm Convention in 2004 and assumed the
respective implementation obligations. To implement
effective measures...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 51728Date: November 1, 2009
This paper studies the effect of
enforcing labor regulation in an economy with a dual labor
market. The analysis uses data from Brazil, a country with a
large informal...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5119Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Almeida,Rita Kullberg ;
Amaro Da Costa Luz Carneiro,Pedro Manuel
Cement is a key sector for the Global
Manufacturing and Services Department (GMS), accounting for
about 18 percent of the department's commitment volume.
Development...
Type: BriefReport#: 83854Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Kumar, Ruchira
Road use charging is used by agencies
for activities ranging from revenue collection, through
demand and environmental management. It is applied on
individual road segments,...
Type: BriefReport#: 53314Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Jung Eun, Oh ;
Vukanovic, Svetlana ;
Bennett, Christopher R.
The study reports on the preliminary
Damage and Needs Assessment (DNA) of the districts of Buner,
Lower and Upper Dir, Shangla, and Swat in the North West
Frontier Province...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70328Date: November 1, 2009
Private activity in transport declined
in 2008, with the full onset of the financial crisis driving
a slowdown in the second half of the year. Yet while
investment commitments...
Type: BriefReport#: 53061Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina ;
Jett,Alexander Nicholas
A joint venture between the government
of Samoa and Australia's Virgin Blue, a low-cost
carrier, turned an annual United States (U.S.) 7.5 million
dollars government...
Bogota, the capital city of Colombia, is
located near the geographic center of Colombia, 2,640 meters
(8,661 ft) sea level. It is the largest and most populous
city...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 52126Date: November 1, 2009
The objectives of this Country
Environmental Analysis (CEA) were to assess the
environmental quality in the Philippines with a focus on how
this affects human welfare...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 51683Date: October 29, 2009
This press release announces on October
26, 2009, that Mexico could reduce its carbon (CO2)
emissions by at least forty-two percent per year by 2030
without sacrificing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168772Date: October 26, 2009
This press release announces that the
Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a loan for one
hundred fifty million US dollars in support of the
Metropolitan Areas...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165642Date: October 20, 2009
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