This press release announces that the
World Bank approved four hundred fifty million US dollars
for Railway Trade and Transport Facilitation Project for
Azerbaijan that...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163659Date: March 27, 2008
The overarching objective of this paper
is to provide a coherent strategic framework to guide the
World Bank's assistance in support of regional
integration and regional...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 43022Date: March 18, 2008
Access to basic infrastructure services
- roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient
provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight
against...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4558Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Gonzalez,Julio A. ;
Guasch, Jose Luis ;
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
This quarterly electronic information
brief provides relevant information on recently published
reports, seminars and events. This brief includes the
following headlines:...
Bringing management of the radio
spectrum closer to markets is long overdue. The radio
spectrum is a major component of the infrastructure that
underpins the information...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4549Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Neto,Maria Isabel A. S. ;
Wellenius,Bjorn
The main motivation for Middle East and
North Africa Region (MENA) governments to improve energy
efficiency is to address pressing domestic concerns, such as
urban air...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 44452Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Zhang,Yabei
There is increasing empirical evidence
that vertical product differentiation is an important
determinant of international trade. However, the economic
literature so...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4550Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Helble,Matthias ;
Okubo, Toshihiro
This paper employs a 55 sector small
open economy computable general equilibrium model of the
Kenyan economy to assess the impact of the liberalization of
regulatory...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4544Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Balistreri,Edward Jay ;
Rutherford,Thomas F. ;
Tarr, David G.
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the World Bank Pakistan newsletter are: eliminating
poverty in one generation - a tough but attainable goal for
Pakistan;...
Economic development is affected by
infrastructure services in both volume and quality terms.
However, the quality of infrastructure is relatively
difficult to measure...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4581Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Iimi,Atsushi
Using panel data for the fourteen major
states of India over the 1980-2000 period, the authors
estimate the effect of human capital endowment on the
performance of the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4576Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Mattoo,Aaditya
This newsletter is expected to be the
newsletter of the World Bank group offices in the country
(including IFC) and its projects. It aims to provide
information, cr...
Slum upgrading projects are designed to
provide a package of basic services aimed at improving the
living conditions of residents in low-income communities.
These typically...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44467Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Goicoechea,Ana
This executive summary is a synthesis
report of the salient points of the various environmental
and social safeguards documents for the Northern Delta
Transport Development...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 43111Date: February 28, 2008
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Daily brief economics and financial market
commentary newsletter are as follows: fed chairman testifies
before house...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60987Date: February 27, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Streifel, Shane ;
Kleine, Annette De
The objective of the Pro-Routes Project
for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is to reinforce
the operational capacity of Congolese structures in charge
of the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 42701Date: February 25, 2008
The Gambias PRSP review process, which
started in July 2006, involved the formation of a steering
committee and the identification of a national facilitator
and service...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70469Date: February 22, 2008
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