The goal of the paper is to provide a
comprehensive assessment of the impact of infrastructure
development on growth in African countries. Based on
econometric estimates...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4914Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Calderon,Cesar
The Government of India decided to
implement the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) to address poor
maternal and child health outcomes in India and in direct
response to the...
Type: BriefReport#: 54084Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Bredenkamp, Caryn;
The world has witnessed an impressive
increase in trade over the past four decades. World
merchandise trade increased from US$217 billion in 1962 to
US$22.8 trillion...
Type: BriefReport#: 48378Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Pitigala,Upali Nihal
This executive summary presents
information on: (i) the safeguards policies triggered by the
Santos Novos Tempos Project; (ii) environmental and social
safeguard-related...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 49485Date: April 1, 2009
Services trade reform matters, but what
is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because
of the opaqueness of services policies and the opaqueness of
the request-offer...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4903Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Gootiiz, Batshur ;
Mattoo, Aaditya
This Consumer Solutions and Support
(CSS) newsletter includes some of the following headlines:
green Information Technology (IT) World Bank Group (WBG)
carbon footprint;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 48137Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Stumpf, Michael
The world economic crisis of 2008
presents clear challenges to prospects for economic growth
in developing countries. This is particularly true for
emerging economies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4911Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Abe, Kazutomo ;
Wilson, John S.
The goal of the Investment Climate
Assessment (ICA) of Uganda is to evaluate the investment
climate in Uganda in all its operational dimensions and to
promote policies...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 53625Date: April 1, 2009
The paper's objective is to explain
factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure
endowment and to identify suitable infrastructure goals for
the region based on benchmarking...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4912Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Pierce,Justin ;
Yepes Delgado,Tito
The 2007 transport sector strategy note
identified that transportation in the West Bank and Gaza
faces extreme challenges, to the extent that mobility for
people and...
Type: Other Public Sector StudyReport#: T7717Date: April 1, 2009
This directory provides information on
those partnership programs supported by the World
Bank-administered trust funds that are active as of end
March 2009. It provides...
This press release announces on March
31, 2009, that the World Bank Managing Director Ngozi
Okonjo-Iweala, speaking at the International Conference on
Afghanistan in...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165039Date: March 31, 2009
This press release announces on March
27, 2009 that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors
approved forty million US dollars International Development
Association...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165570Date: March 27, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved eighteen million nine hundred thousand
euros loan for the Municipal services improvement project
for FYR Macedonia...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165647Date: March 26, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved forty
million US dollars International Development Association
(IDA) credit to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165569Date: March 26, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on March 17, 2009,
approved a loan in the amount of two hundred sventy million
US dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165748Date: March 17, 2009
This press release announces on March
17, 2009, that since G-20 leaders signed a pledge in
November 2008 to avoid protectionist measures, several
countries, including...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167447Date: March 17, 2009
The central objective of this Investment
Climate Assessment (ICA) is to identify the main impediments
to productivity growth Kenyan firms face. This objective is
achieved...
The objective of the Nanning-Guangzhou
Railway Project for China is to provide additional transport
capacity and reduce transport time between the less
developed western...
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