In recent years, the Government of
Colombia (GoC) has placed a high priority on
competitiveness. Increasing globalization trends and
Colombia's decision to increase...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 42269Date: June 12, 2008
The World Bank Group's clean energy
for development investment framework action plan has
outlined some of the key activities it intends to undertake
in the area of mitigating...
Type: PublicationReport#: 44382Date: June 10, 2008Author:
Avato, Patrick; Coony, Jonathan;
This Joint Staff Advisory Note (JSAN)
reviews the latest Annual Progress Report (APR) on the
implementation of the poverty reduction strategy (PRS). It
was discussed...
Type: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)Report#: 43856Date: June 10, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Directors approved twenty million US
dollars credit for the Secondary and Local Roads Project in
Albania to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164104Date: June 3, 2008
This press release announces the World
Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said a Rome summit
should commit to helping the twenty most vulnerable
countries in the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163349Date: June 3, 2008
To be credible, any plan for scaling up
infrastructure in Africa must rest on a thorough evaluation
of how fiscal resources are allocated and financed. Because
in every...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71815Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Garmendia, Cecilia Briceno ;
Smits, Karlis ;
Foster, Vivien
The Rural Investment Climate Survey
(RICS) carried out in 2006 sampled more than 2,500
predominantly very small firms in six rural districts in
Indonesia [Labuhan Batu...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 44033Date: June 1, 2008
A road network providing adequate
connectivity across national territory is typically one of
the most costly items of infrastructure that any country
requires. It is...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 55105Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Gwilliam, Ken; Foster, Vivien;
Archondo-Callao, Rodrigo; Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia;
Nogales, Alberto; Sethi, Kavita;
Yemen economic update is a quarterly
report that consists of several sections. The first section
highlights major political and social developments. The
second covers...
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: June 1, 2008
The 2007 annual report which marks the
end of the Long Term Development Plan (LTDP) that started in
2004. Over the past four years, Sub-Saharan Africa Transport
Policy...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 44684Date: June 1, 2008
Many small-and medium-size emerging
exporters in developing countries have inadequate access to
short-term working capital to finance their export
transactions. Several...
Type: BriefReport#: 44754Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Alavi,Hamid R.
This newsletter focuses on the EU10 the
group of ten countries that have joined the European Union
(EU) since 2004, (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Poland,...
The purpose of this brochure is to
demonstrate the role of the World Bank in improving
people's lives in Bosnia and Herzegovina over the last
12 years. The brochure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45194Date: June 1, 2008
This policy note focuses on analyzing
critical institutional and planning issues affecting
Dhaka's Metropolitan Area, and suggests policy
recommendations for introducing...
In the early 1990s there was a proposal
to provide World Bank finance to help renew the fleet of big
buses run by Societe des Transports en Commun (SOTRAC), the
national...
Type: Other Urban StudyReport#: 69712Date: June 1, 2008
This paper uses the Rwandan Industrial
and Mining Survey (RIMS), a joint exercise between the World
Bank, and the institute of statistics, ministry of finance
and economic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51704Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Ezemenari,Kenechukwu Maria ;
Gatera, Emmanuel ;
Munyakazi, Louis
The current global food price crisis has
deep historical roots in the distortions of the world
trading system. Trade policy options to deal with the crisis
involve correcting...
Type: BriefReport#: 44899Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Chauffour,Jean-Pierre Christophe
This report has been by drafted for the
Ministry of Transport and Roads of the Republic of Tatarstan
under the terms of the Agreement for Advisory Services on
Assistance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70007Date: June 1, 2008
This paper reviews the literature on the
fiscal policy instruments commonly used to reduce transport
sector externalities. The findings show that congestion
charges...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4652Date: June 1, 2008Author:
Timilsina, Govinda R. ;
Dulal, Hari B.
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