The 1996 World Bank strategy,
sustainable transport, had as its pillars social, financial,
economic, and environmental sustainability, acknowledging
the likelihood of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46792Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Amos, Paul
Multidimensional auctions are a natural
and practical solution when auctioneers pursue more than one
objective in their public-private-partnership transactions.
However,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4665Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Guasch, Jose-Luis ;
Iimi,Atsushi ;
Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes
This document is the executive summary
of Environmental Assessment (EA) for the World Bank financed
Yichang to Badong Section of the Shanghai-Chengdu
Inter-Provincial...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 44993Date: July 1, 2008
Policies on municipal actions to promote
local competitiveness have typically focused in three areas:
i) providing infrastructure (transportation,
telecommunications,...
Type: BriefReport#: 46975Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Zhang, Ming
Infrastructure is the engine for
economic growth. The international donor community has spent
about 70-100 billion U.S. dollars on infrastructure
development in developing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4662Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Estache,Antonio ;
Iimi,Atsushi
This study, competitiveness of the value
chain of the agricultural sector in Cameroon, aims to help
the Government achieve its objectives for the rural sector.
The main...
Type: Other Agricultural StudyReport#: AAA25Date: June 30, 2008
This annual report outlines the
inspection panel activities during the period July 1, 2007
to June 30, 2008, in its aim at providing an effective forum
for affected...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 46645Date: June 30, 2008
La pandémie du VIH/SIDA constitue un
fardeau pour l'Afrique Sub-saharienne (ASS) et continue
à freiner son développement social et économique. Les
estimations de l’ONUSIDA...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 43075Date: June 30, 2008
The objective of the Ceara Regional
Economic Development Project for Brazil is to promote
economic development, improve urban infrastructure, and
enhance regional management...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 44463Date: June 27, 2008
The main purpose of this paper is to
document and discuss infrastructure gaps, investment needs,
and policy challenges in improving infrastructure services,
with an...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: AAA34Date: June 26, 2008
This press release announces that the
Four new projects approved the day before by the World
Bank's Board of Executive Directors has brought the
organization's support...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163671Date: June 25, 2008
The main objective of this exploratory
study was to gain a better understanding of the risks of HIV
for transport sector workers in Georgia and to outline the
scope...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45297Date: June 24, 2008Author:
Bakilana,Anne Margreth ;
Chao,Shiyan ;
Ishihara,Satoshi ;
Smith,Owen K. ;
Gotsadze,Tamar ;
Kaijage,Karumuna A.
Over the past few decades, the World
trading system has become increasingly more open. Tariff
rates have been reduced and quantitative restrictions
(quotas) have been...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 44061Date: June 23, 2008
Over the past few decades, the World
trading system has become increasingly more open. Tariff
rates have been reduced and quantitative restrictions
(quotas) have been...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 44061Date: June 23, 2008
This press release announces on June 23,
2008, the statement from World Bank Group President Robert
B. Zoellick on the initiative announced the day before by
Saudi Arabia...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164904Date: June 23, 2008
Competition around the world is
increasing dramatically with the growth in manufactured
trade volumes and the multitude of suppliers of comparable
products. Indonesia...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 49704Date: June 21, 2008Author:
Haddad, Mona ;
Kruk, Bert ;
Carruthers, Robin ;
Mustra, Alina ;
Sandee, Henry
This press release announces that
Kazakhstan and the World Bank Group declared plans to
jointly finance a two billion five hundred million US
dollars road project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163509Date: June 20, 2008
This press release announces that the
Board of Directors of the World Bank approved an additional
grant of five million one hundred thousand US dollars and
credit of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163619Date: June 19, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved one hundred
ninety million US dollars regional operation to finance
transport...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163622Date: June 19, 2008
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