This press release announces on January
10, 2008, that the World Bank approved IDA financing
totaling two hundred forty-seven million US dollars to help
Bangladesh recover...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164246Date: January 10, 2008
This press release announces on January
9, 2008, the rapid technological progress in developing
countries has helped to raise incomes and reduce the share
of people...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163407Date: January 9, 2008
This press release announces on January
9, 2008, that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors
the day before approved a loan for Costa Rica in the amount
of seventy-two...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163676Date: January 9, 2008
The country profile for Ukraine is based
on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World
Bank in 2008. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47258Date: January 1, 2008
The main objective of the Country
Environmental Analysis (CEA) in Nepal is to identify
opportunities for enhancing the overall performance of
select environmental management...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 38984Date: January 1, 2008
As the macroeconomic environment
strengthens in Uruguay, investment climate/microeconomic
constraints are gaining prominence. The economy has bounced
back from the deep...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 68762Date: January 1, 2008
Infrastructure plays a crucial role in
economic development and enrichment of living standards.
Various stages of economic development require different
levels of infrastructure...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 47156Date: January 1, 2008
The country profile for Belarus is based
on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World
Bank in 2008. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47255Date: January 1, 2008
The country profile for Tajikistan is
based on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the
World Bank in 2008. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47257Date: January 1, 2008
This paper reviews the evidence about
the effects of urbanization and cities on productivity and
economic growth in developing countries using a consistent
theoretical...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57712Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Duranton, Gilles
Spatial inequality is an important
feature of many developing countries that seems to increase
with economic growth and development. At the same time,
there seems to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57716Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Kim, Sukkoo
This paper analyzes recent automotive
investment in the Slovak Republic and shows how the
development of the automotive industry has influenced growth
in productivity...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57728Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Jakubiak, Malgorzata ;
Kolesar, Peter ;
Izvorski, Ivailo ;
Kurekova, Lucia
The operations policy on Development
Policy Lending (DPL), approved by the Board in August 2004,
requires that the Bank systematically analyze whether
specific country...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 56168Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Mani, Muthukumara
Despite extraordinarily difficult
circumstances during 2007, Afghanistan has made remarkable
achievements notably: more girls are at school than at any
time in Afghanistans...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 91530Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Crow,Benjamin Edward ;
Zia,Abdul Raouf
The strategic objective of the 2007
annual meeting was to launch the Second Development Plan
(DP2) and lay the foundation for its implementation in 2008
and beyond....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45195Date: January 1, 2008
This paper explores the role of export
costs in the process of poverty reduction in rural Africa.
The authors claim that the marketing costs that emerge when
the commercialization...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4488Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Balat,Jorge Francisco ;
Brambilla,Maria Irene ;
Porto,Guido
This note summarizes recent research on
urban transport in 14 large African cities performed at the
World Bank under the aegis of the Africa Infrastructure
Country Diagnostic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44980Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Kumar, Ajay ;
Foster, Vivien ;
Barrett, Fanny
Apollo Tyres is India's
second-largest tire manufacturing company and a local
business success story. Its revenues have doubled since
2002, and the company is expanding...
This paper reviews the linkages between
urbanization and economic development. It articulates the
relationship between urban density and potential increases
in productivity,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57719Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Quigley, John M.
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.
