This press release announces on August
6, 2009, the World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick
following week begins a three-nation African tour to
encourage investor...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168933Date: August 6, 2009
This press release announces on August
4, 2009, that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors
approved two loans totaling three hundred twenty million US
dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165755Date: August 4, 2009
Nepal is a country at a crossroads.
Nepal's decade-long conflict formally ended in November
2006 and the country is now in transition from conflict to
peace and from...
Since the Arab World Initiative (AWI)
was first announced in October 2007, the World Bank Group
has had extensive consultation with country authorities and
other stakeholders,...
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 69411Date: August 1, 2009
The Pan-Arab Free Trade Area, negotiated
under auspices of the Arab League, came into force in 1997.
Under the agreement all tariffs on goods of Arab origin were
to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5031Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Zarrouk,Jamel Eddine
Despite growing agreement on the
potential of technology to expand access to finance, or
branchless banking, there is surprisingly little data
publicly available about...
Type: BriefReport#: 50306Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Morawczynski,Olga ;
Pickens,Mark
The purpose of this note is to review
the worldwide experience with the performance-based
contracting (PBC) approach, highlight the main advantages,
the steps involved...
Type: BriefReport#: 33947Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Queiroz,Cesar Augusto ;
Qureshi,Navaid A. ;
Stankevich,Natalya
According on climate change and tourism
the industry 'must rapidly respond to climate change,
within the evolving United Nation (UN) framework and
progressively reduce...
With strong, broad-based economic
growth, Ghana today has reason for optimism. The country has
just enjoyed two peaceful democratic transitions, and
continues to be...
To facilitate air freight, landlocked
countries need to improve operations at their airports and
liberalize access for foreign airlines. But until those
countries become...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51747Date: August 1, 2009
Benin has been one of the most
politically stable countries of West Africa, achieving a
successful transition from a Marxist- Leninist state towards
a pluralist democracy...
Despite its image as a self-sustaining
region in agricultural production, about one-third of the
population of LAC lives in net food importing countries, and
most of...
Type: Policy PaperReport#: 70796Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Schwartz,Jordan Z. ;
Stokenberga,Aiga ;
Wilmsmeier,Gordon
Liberia economy, institutions, and human
capacity were devastated by a 14-year civil war. Annual
gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is only US$240 and
life expectancy...
In the urban planning literature, it is
frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that
ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to
development patterns...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5017Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Anas, Alex ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
This introductory section explains the
rationale for the guidance note, reflecting on the relevance
of food prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC),
their impact...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 87933Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Schwartz, Jordan ;
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Wilmsmeier, Gordon ;
Stokenberga, Aiga
This country partnership strategy (CPS),
prepared jointly by the World Bank Group (WBG) and the
African Development Bank (AfDB), lays out the strategy and
planned lending...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 49583Date: July 31, 2009
Transport and logistics costs are high
in the LAC region. On a macro-level, the World Bank has
estimated LAC logistics costs, as a percent of GDP, to be
between 16 and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70797Date: July 31, 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#: 61429Date: July 29, 2009Author:
Mick Riordan ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
This press release announces that the
World Bank launched on July 16, 2009, a Supply Chain
Security (SCS) Guide. The SCS Guide includes a top level
explanation of the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168939Date: July 16, 2009
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