An adequate supply of infrastructure
services has long been viewed by both academics and policy
makers as a key ingredient for economic development.
Sub-Saharan Africa...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4712Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Calderon, Cesar ;
Serven, Luis
The Highway Development and Management
Model (HDM-4) is a software system for evaluating options
for investing in road transport infrastructure. Worldwide,
the HDM-4...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 46319Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo
The authors explore the relationship
between transaction costs and generalized trust. Using panel
data from 2,100 households in 135 rural communities of the
Philippines,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4706Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Chase,Robert S. ;
Labonne,Julien Bernard
The study is based on a new specialized
dataset generated for the road sector contracts of
Bank-financed projects in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is
organized as follows:...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 46728Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Alexeeva, Victoria ;
Padam, Gouthami ;
Queiroz, Cesar
The paper focuses on ex-post impact
evaluations, meaning that one is evaluating impacts after an
intervention has happened and had time to have impacts. By
'impact evaluation'...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 47438Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Van De Walle,Dominique
This paper reviews data and research on
trade costs for Sub-Saharan African countries. It focuses
on: border-related costs, transport costs, costs related to
behind-the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4719Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Portugal Perez,Luis Alberto ;
Wilson,John S.
When properly designed and implemented,
involuntary resettlement on highway projects can be used to
improve overall living conditions and alleviate poverty for
those...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45445Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Liu, Zhefu ;
Bennett, Christopher R
South Asia has attracted global
attention because it has experienced rapid GDP growth over
the last two decades. What is not so well known is that
South Asia is the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4736Date: September 1, 2008Author:
Ahmed,Sadiq ;
Ghani,Syed Ejaz
The consideration of gender in transport
is essential to ensure that transport is equitable,
affordable, and provides access to resources and
opportunities required...
Report#: 69948Date: August 18, 2008Author:
Caballero Alonso,Maria Luz
This press release announces that an
additional four million US dollars food price crisis
response grant was approved for Sierra Leone by the Bank’s
Executive Board...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164310Date: August 13, 2008
This is a summary project status report
on the Global Food Crisis Response Program (GFRP) for the
period ending July 31, 2008. The Board has approved the
following countries:...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 44994Date: August 7, 2008
Road traffic injuries are a major but
neglected global public health problem. Worldwide, the
number of people killed in road traffic accidents each year
is estimated...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 49562Date: August 1, 2008
There is a debate among policy analysts
about whether fuel taxes alone are the most effective policy
to reduce fuel use by motorists, or whether to also use
mandatory...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4695Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Mideksa, Torben K.
The government of Burundi appealed to
the World Bank Institute (WBI) for help in strengthening the
capacities of leadership to implement policies and programs
that would...
This paper includes the following
articles: at last, a practical guide to climate-proof our
cities; and poor Chon Buri village benefits from first World
Bank (WB)-supported...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 45107Date: August 1, 2008
Activities carried on by the
Environmental and Social Panel of Expert (POR) during the
period June 6-16, 2008 included meetings with Hydropower
Project Management Board...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59941Date: August 1, 2008
This paper begins by comparing CO2 taxes
and emissions trading from a domestic perspective across a
broad range of criteria of potential concern to policy
makers. Next...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 45125Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Aldy, Joseph E.; Ley, Eduardo; Parry, Ian;
The Department of Urban Roads (DUR) of
the Ministry of Roads and Transportation (MOT) in Ghana is
implementing part of the Road Sector Development Program
(RSDP), which...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48099Date: August 1, 2008
The objective of the El-Ain Al-Sokhna
2x650 MWe Gas/Oil Thermal Power Project for Egypt is to
identify the environmental and social impacts of
construction and operation...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 45463Date: August 1, 2008
The authors study the effect of
enforcement of labor regulation in Brazil, an economy with a
large informal sector and strict labor law. Enforcement
affects mainly the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 45051Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Almeida, Rita ; Carneiro, Pedro
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