Unsafe, polluting buses are allowed to
operate on Dhaka's already choked roads. Yet past
efforts to regulate and reform bus operations have been
thwarted by the efforts...
Sri Lanka faces a historic opportunity
to evolve from a lower-income country mired in conflict, to
a middle-income country in lasting peace. The International
Development...
The problem of climate change seems to
be a tragedy of the commons: despite the global benefits of
reducing green-house gas emissions, no individual has any
incentive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5006Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Irwin,Timothy C.
For decades, the International
Development Association (IDA), the World Bank's fund
for the poor, has helped developing countries gain access to
global markets for goods...
In early 2007, the International finance
corporation enlisted the help of the economist intelligence
unit to learn more about the commitment of the asset
management...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52196Date: July 1, 2009
The study was done is the form of
analysis of the official statistic data provided by the
leasing companies. The main results of the analysis are: in
2009 there has...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66333Date: June 30, 2009
In 2009 Annual Review of Development
Effectiveness (ARDE) is being written against the backdrop
of a global financial crisis, declining growth, and massive
fiscal stimulus...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 49274Date: June 30, 2009
This Investment Climate Policy Note
(ICPN) identifies the main constraints to the development of
the private sector in the Republic of Congo, based on a
survey of enterprises...
This press release announces that the
Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a total of
five hundred thirty-five million US dollars to support three
credit facilities...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167067Date: June 30, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank's Board endorsed a new Country Partnership
Strategy (CPS) for Poland on June 30, 2009, which will guide
the Bank's assistance...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167536Date: June 30, 2009
This press release announces that the
Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a total of
twenty-four million two hundred thousand US dollars to
provide additional...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167236Date: June 30, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank launched a new urban development program on June
26, 2009, that supports cities in developing countries in
their move...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165467Date: June 26, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved two
loans to the People’s Republic of China, three hundred
million US dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166993Date: June 25, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank on June 24, 2009, approved sixty-two million US
dollars equivalent IDA Credit and one hundred thirteen
million US dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165716Date: June 24, 2009
This press release announces that on
June 23, 2009, the World Bank approved a Global Environment
Facility (GEF) grant of seven million US dollars to support
Vietnam...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165703Date: June 23, 2009
This press release announces that the
Smithsonian Institution and the World Bank Group announced a
new program under the Global Tiger Initiative to help
stabilize and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167530Date: June 19, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved sixty
million US dollars equivalent Agricultural competitiveness
project in Cameroon...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167054Date: June 18, 2009
This paper presents the findings from
the portfolio review and interviews with World Bank (WB)
staffand consultants. Technology changes are effective, but
they will...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70013Date: June 9, 2009Author:
McAndrews, Carolyn ;
Deakin, Elizabeth ;
Scholl, Lynn ;
Trapenberg Frick ;
Schipper, Lee
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