This study forms part of a broader study
by the Oil and Gas Policy Division (COCPO) to
identify reasons for the Liquid Petroleum Gas market (LPG
market) failure...
Type: Mining/Oil and GasReport#: 70658Date: February 1, 2007
Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH) is on the
mend. Over the past 14 years, infrastructure and basic
services have been restored to almost prewar levels, while
the country and...
While most economists assume that aid is
fungible, most aid donors behave as if it is not. The
authors study recipient government responses to development
project aid...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4133Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Mu,Ren ;
Van De Walle,Dominique
This Rural Investment Climate Assessment
(RICA) provides a comprehensive assessment of the investment
climate. Using data from the recently completed RIC Survey,
the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38777Date: February 1, 2007
An update of the World Bank Group's
Privatization Database shows that privatization in
developing countries continued to pick up in 2004 and 2005,
with 400 transactions...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 38967Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Burman,Amit ;
Kikeri,Sunita
There is tremendous potential for trade
to play a key role in driving and sustaining growth and
poverty reduction in Kenya. There is significant potential
for greater...
Type: Foreign Trade, FDI, and Capital Flows StudyReport#: 37688Date: February 1, 2007
With the conclusion of the CEFTA 2006
free trade agreement among the Western Balkan countries and
with trade of goods between them and the EU largely
liberalized, regional...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 42008Date: February 1, 2007Author:
Muller-Jentsch, Daniel
On January 22, 2007, Hartwig Schafer,
Acting Vice President for the Africa Region, visited Sudan
from January 13-16 to take stock ofprogress in implementing
the 2005...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169467Date: January 22, 2007
The third Annual Progress Report (APR)
on the implementation of Zambia's 2002 Poverty
Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) for 2005-2006 comprises the
Government's Economic...
Type: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP)Report#: 38307Date: January 19, 2007
The World Bank's Enterprise Surveys
(ES) collect data from key manufacturing and service sectors
in every region of the world. The surveys use standardized
survey instruments...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44277Date: January 17, 2007
Amid a shifting policymaking environment
from private to public, volume one of this report discusses
how public policies could attract more and better private
investments....
Type: PSD, Privatization and Industrial PolicyReport#: 36624Date: January 10, 2007
Amid a shifting policymaking environment
from private to public, volume one of this report discusses
how public policies could attract more and better private
investments....
Type: PSD, Privatization and Industrial PolicyReport#: 36624Date: January 10, 2007
Mali's Growth and Poverty Reduction
Strategy Framework (GPRSF) adopted by the Government in
December 2006, comprises programs over the 2007-11 period
grouped under the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 38395Date: January 9, 2007
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the daily brief economics and financial market
commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. factory activity
up in December;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60391Date: January 3, 2007Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Kim, Eung Ju ;
Streifel, Shane ;
DeKleine, Annette
The World Bank committed $30.6 billion
in transport-related projects during the past decade, making
it one of the largest sectors. The evaluation looks into the
Bank's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 39660Date: January 1, 2007
Input subsidies can underwrite risks of
early adoption of new technologies and can help input
distributors achieve economies of scale, which, in turn,
allow them to...
There is persuasive evidence that India
has a comparative advantage in agriculture. Yet its share in
global agriculture exports is miniscule and its domestic
market...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48891Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Mattoo, Aaditya ;
Mishra, Deepak ;
Narain, Ashish
The country profile for Cambodia is
based on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the
World Bank in 2007. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47232Date: January 1, 2007
This is the first report presenting the
Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and indicators. It aims to
shed light on how different countries are doing in the area
of trade...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 43005Date: January 1, 2007Author:
Arvis,Jean Francois ;
Antoci,Monica Alina ;
Panzer,John
The country profile for Kenya is based
on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World
Bank in 2007. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47236Date: January 1, 2007
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