Refining is a capital-intensive industry
in a market driven by divergent forces - cleaner fuels to
address local air pollution; greater fuel efficiency against
the backdrop...
This paper reviews recent progress and
indicators of trade facilitation in member countries of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations. The findings show
that import...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4615Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Shepherd , Ben ;
Wilson, John S.
This paper aims at presenting the
methodological lessons of corridor performance measurement
carried out in Africa. Based on current experience, the
authors conclude...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 44206Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Raballand, Gael; Marteau, Jean-Francois; Kunaka,
Private participation in roads revived
strongly in developing countries in 2005-06. The activity
was concentrated in green field projects and in Asia and
Latin America....
Type: BriefReport#: 44083Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Queiroz,Cesar Augusto ;
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
In 2006, private participation in
infrastructure continued its recovery for the third
consecutive year from the steep downturn of the late 1990s.
Activity was more evenly...
Type: BriefReport#: 44396Date: May 1, 2008Author:
Mastle, Clemencia Torres de; Izaguirre, Ada Kari
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
is the third most populous county in Sub Saharan Africa and
has many natural advantages that would enable it to
experience rapid...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 69538Date: May 1, 2008
Balochistan offers some of the best
assets for development. Balochistan is generously bestowed
with natural and locational resources. It possesses the
largest land area...
Type: General Economy, Macroeconomics and Growth StudyReport#: 40345Date: May 1, 2008
This report was written in 2008 in the
wake of a World Bank mission to Mongolia in 2007. The team
identified that the South Gobi region is poised for a major
boom in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68679Date: May 1, 2008
This paper reports that Alexandria has
been involved in a City Development Strategy (CDS) since
2004. The process has involved many stakeholders including
civil society...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70337Date: May 1, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group approved its new Country Partnership
Strategy (CPS) for Brazil, which will guide the Group’s
overall program in...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163901Date: May 1, 2008
The fungibility of aid, in which donor
aid earmarked for a project substitutes for rather than
supplements local spending intended for that purpose, has
important implications...
The ambient permit system proposed in
the literature for cost-effective pollution reduction is
difficult to implement and may result in lower net benefits
than using...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 77568Date: May 1, 2008Author:
O'Ryan, Raul; Sanchez, Jose Miguel
The objectives of the Second Rijeka
Gateway Project for Croatia are: (a) re-evaluation of the
Adriatic Sea transportation advantages based on assessment
of traffic trends...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 43654Date: April 30, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Directors today approved an
International Development Association (IDA) grant of thirty
million US dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163860Date: April 29, 2008
Although trade liberalization can create
jobs and raise incomes, these benefits are easily undermined
if excessive costs and delays hinder trade transactions -
reducing...
Type: BriefReport#: 45603Date: April 25, 2008Author:
Alavi, Hamid
This press release announces on April
22, 2008, that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors
approved a loan of two hundred million US dollars to the
People’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163844Date: April 22, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved an
additional financing in an amount of forty million US
dollars to Madagascar...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163661Date: April 17, 2008
This note reviews the performance of key
sectors of the Kenyan economy after the power-sharing
arrangement of 2008. Declines in the agricultural,
manufacturing, and...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 70499Date: April 15, 2008
This press release announces that the
developing economies produce forty-one percent of the
world's output, up from thirty-six percent in 2000,
according to the World...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163449Date: April 11, 2008
This press release announces on April 9,
2008, that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors
endorsed the day before a new Country Partnership Strategy
(CPS) for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163592Date: April 9, 2008
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