The idea of outsourcing road maintenance
to micro and small enterprises under performance-based
contracts has been successfully implemented in the Latin
American region....
Type: Country Infrastructure FrameworkReport#: 68962Date: March 1, 2007
This guidance note offers a practical
guide to integrating social analysis and
disability-inclusive development into sector and thematic
projects and programs of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39385Date: March 1, 2007
The World Bank relies in part on
economic benefit estimates to evaluate the merits of
investment projects. Recent lending operations for revenue
administrations in Vietnam...
Type: BriefReport#: 39623Date: March 1, 2007Author:
De Wulf, Luc ;
Le,Tuan Minh ;
Pham,Duc Minh
The authors examine the influence of
infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and
geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of
bilateral trade....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4152Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Francois,Joseph ;
Manchin,Miriam
This newsletter looks at Output-based
aid (OBA) as it pertains to the telecommunication sector of
Uganda. Specifically, how to bring communication services to
the rural...
Type: BriefReport#: 39610Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Ampah,Mavis A. ;
Navas-Sabater,Juan
This report provides a number of options
for top-down (supply-oriented) and bottom-up
(demand-oriented) policies that could be applied by the
Ukrainian government to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39606Date: March 1, 2007Author:
Kumar,Geeta ;
De Gouvello,Christophe
This study is a small-scale follow-up to
an earlier World Bank study that analyzed the market failure
of LPG in Nigeria and developed a roadmap to develop the use
of...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 70657Date: February 28, 2007
On February 22, 2007, the World Bank
today approved a US$25 million Transport Project for Albania
that will finance the construction of the 26 kilometer
section between...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169504Date: February 22, 2007
Under-pricing of diesel and kerosene
continues to cause major financial problems for Bangladesh
Petroleum Corporation (BPC), which is losing over Tk 2
billion monthly....
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 68379Date: February 18, 2007
Traffic at Chittagong Port, which
handles 90 percent of Bangladesh's foreign trade, has
been growing rapidly. The volume of containers handled has
increased by over...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 68380Date: February 15, 2007
The Government of Moldova's
Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
(EGPRSP) lays out an ambitious plan for sustaining growth
and poverty reduction and...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 37933Date: February 12, 2007
This Country Assistance Strategy
Progress Report (CASPR) assesses progress in implementing
the FY05-08 Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Armenia,
discussed by the...
Type: CAS Progress ReportReport#: 38585Date: February 9, 2007
The objective of the Costa Rica
Investment Climate Assessment (ICA) is to evaluate
constraints on growth of the private sector in Costa Rica
using a survey of 343 manufacturing...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 35424Date: February 6, 2007
The Highway Design and Maintenance
Standard Model (HDM) is a computer program for analyzing the
total transport costs of alternative road improvement and
maintenance...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84186Date: February 2, 2007
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the daily brief economics and financial market
commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. job gains halve
from December...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60413Date: February 2, 2007Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Streifel, Shane ;
DeKleine, Annette
In this issue of Development in
Partnership : Country Development Partnerships for
Infrastructure (CDP-INFRA), Health (CDP-H), and Education
(CDP-ED). New World Bank...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41079Date: February 1, 2007
Decentralization is the transfer of
responsibilities from the central government to subnational
agencies empowered to act as increasingly autonomous
entities within...
Type: BriefReport#: 38491Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Muzzini,Elisa
The survey on Lao private sector and
investment climate covered 303 firms in six sectors and
seven provinces (Vientiane City, Oudomxay, Luang Prabang,
Luangnamtha, Xayaboury,...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 39237Date: February 1, 2007
Data collection is expensive. Each data
item collected requires time, effort, and money to collect,
store, retrieve, and use. The first rule of data collection
is that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39139Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Bennett,Christopher R. ;
Gine,Marcela Alondra Chamorro ;
Chen, Chen ;
Flintsch, Gerardo W. ;
Solminiihac, Hernan de
In June 2006 the EU and the countries of
South East Europe signed an agreement on the establishment
of a European Common Aviation Area (ECAA) by 2010. The ECAA
will...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42006Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Muller-Jentsch, Daniel
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