Phase one of the formal global
consultations were held from April 1 through July 15, 2008,
on a draft concept and issues paper (the SFCCD). An informal
process of internal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76423Date: January 1, 2008
This paper starts with a brief
perspective on urban transport in developing countries,
followed by a detailed presentation of an overall framework
for making projects...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 43026Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Mitric,Slobodan
Young people are not only the future,
they are also the now. More than one fifth of the
world's population is between the ages of 12 and 24,
with 1.3 billion young people...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47116Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Kuznicka, Anna
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Region
is home to an ethnically, culturally, and socially diverse
population of 473 million occupying 23,370,720 sq. km of
land area;...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42148Date: January 1, 2008
The competitiveness of firms in open
economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost
and high-quality producer services - telecommunications,
transport and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4461Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M. ;
Mattoo,Aaditya
The country profile for Georgia 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#: 47256Date: January 1, 2008
Over the past four decades Africa has
diverged from other developing regions and is now the
poorest region in the world. This paper offers an
explanation of Africa's...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57709Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Collier, Paul
The country profile for Uzbekistan 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#: 47259Date: January 1, 2008
The Chongqing Small Cities
Infrastructure Improvement Project (CSCIIP) is to support
emerging small cities of Chongqing Municipality to improve
the efficiency and effectiveness...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 56650Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Xiao, Elisa ;
Touzel, Piers ;
Arthur, David
This report as about onging operational,
economic, and sector work carried out by the World Bank and
its member governments in the Africa Region.This note
focuses post-experience...
Type: BriefReport#: 42939Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Brushett,Stephen Jeremy ;
Sampson, Les ;
Waithaka,Solomon Muhuthu
This note is based on a World Bank Group
database that uses transaction values as a proxy for
measuring privatization trends. It includes only the values
resulting from...
This report provides an overview of the
challenges and opportunities in addressing road safety in
the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. It presents
information on...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51667Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Marquez,Patricio V. ;
Banjo,George A. ;
Chesheva,Elena Y.
The Economic Policy and Public Finance
Management Credit (EPPFMC) was part of the Country
Assistance Strategies (CAS) base case lending scenario of
budget support operations....
Type: BriefReport#: 42941Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Mastri,Lawrence C.
This paper is a case study of an open
small economy whose development and growth is based largely
on foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI). One
purpose of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57724Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Lumiste, Runno ;
Pefferly, Robert ;
Purju, Alari
Shopping centers reflect the trend for
modernization of retailing throughout the world - including
middle-and low-income countries. They bring together a large
number...
Reducing energy use and greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions in cities is fundamental to any
comprehensive effort to slow the pace of global warming.
Today, half of the world's...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 70758Date: January 1, 2008
This working paper focuses on the
results obtained from a two-phase study conducted to better
understand the degree to which emerging market investors and
operators...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 46265Date: January 1, 2008Author:
von Klaudy, Stephan; Sanghi, Apurva;
Dellacha, G
The Trung Son Hydropower Project (TSHPP)
will be constructed on Ma River, in territory of Trung Son
Commune, Quan Hoa District, Thanh Hoa Province. TSHPP
construction...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 59892Date: January 1, 2008
The current year is seeing an increase
in the share of short-term (up to 5 years incl.) financial
lease agreements, which is caused by political and
economical turmoil...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66310Date: January 1, 2008
Based on a detailed empirical study,
this paper argues that regional liberalization of trucking
services has had an important effect on transport costs and
tariffs for...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4482Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Giersing,Bo ;
Kunaka,Charles ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
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