Grim descriptions of the long-term
consequences of climate change have given the impression
that the climate impacts from greenhouse gases threaten
long-term economic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57759Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Mendelsohn, Robert
2009 is the year when Sub-Saharan Africa
Transport Policy Program (SSATP) started to move onwards
from the first Long-Term Development Plan to engage in the
implementation...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 66894Date: January 1, 2009
Before the financial market turmoil in
the fall of 2008 and the growing prospects for a sharp
economic slowdown in developing countries, private
investment in infrastructure...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 47502Date: January 1, 2009
The main objective of the Andhra Pradesh
Road Sector Project for India will be to further improve the
state road network by providing better quality and safer
roads...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48081Date: January 1, 2009
This study on financial and economic
analysis of ecological sanitation (ecosan) in Sub-Saharan
Africa was financed by the Water and Sanitation Program
(WSP). It focused...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52235Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Schuen, Richard ;
Parkinson,Jonathan
The municipality of Milan has about
1,305,000 inhabitants, of which less than 8 percent live
downtown. It is the second largest city in Italy, located in
the plains...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47802Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
Makati City is one of the constituent
cities of metro Manila, Philippines. Metro Manila consists
of 16 cities and the municipality of Manila. Makati City is
located...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47805Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
Aid for trade is a means to help
developing countries, especially low-income countries,
integrate into the world economy as a way to spur growth.
The recent financial...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 88024Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe ;
Gamberoni,Elisa ;
Malouche,Mariem ;
Newfarmer,Richard S.
The project aims to modernize
Panama's land administration system and addresses
policy, legal, and institutional reforms; modernizes the
country's geodetic network and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 63742Date: January 1, 2009
Finland-based Botnia, a leading forest
products company and International Finance Corporation (IFC)
client, has a better handle on the carbon footprint of its
Uruguay...
This Trade and Transport Integration
Project corridor newsletter includes some of the following
headlines: cargo throughput in the Port of Ploce; port
community system;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 58466Date: January 1, 2009
This book covers the early years of the
International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD),
commonly known as the World Bank when it first confronted
the issue...
Type: PublicationReport#: 55403Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Alacevich,Michele
Six emerging economies, including
Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa,
are proactively seeking to identify opportunities and
related financial, technical,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 52124Date: January 1, 2009
The main objective of the Andhra Pradesh
Road Sector Project for India will be to further improve the
state road network by providing better quality and safer
roads...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48081Date: January 1, 2009
The transport sector is especially
vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Transport workers including long
distance truck drivers, seafarers, airline crews and
infrastructure construction...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51746Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Babinard,Julie ;
Gause,Sachiko N.
According to the World Bank's
sustainable infrastructure action plan FY2009-2011, the gaps
in infrastructure service delivery are significant:
worldwide 884 million...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 53161Date: January 1, 2009
King County and its largest city,
Seattle, Washington, along with the emergency preparedness
bureau, have been deemed major contributors to the discourse
on climate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47809Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
The main objectives of the meeting were
to enable a core group of professionals and stakeholders to
discuss the implementation of the Sub-Saharan Africa
Transport Policy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71877Date: January 1, 2009
Economic progress is accompanied by a
fundamental spatial transformation where the economic
landscapes of countries become increasingly uneven. The
journey from low...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63706Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Lall, Somik V. ;
Astrup, Claus
When the Board of the World Bank created
the Inspection Panel 15 years ago, the primary objective was
clear and important: to strengthen our accountability to the
people...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 51372Date: January 1, 2009
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