Theme of this issue is Central Asia and
how regional cooperation with neighbors can help these land
locked countries succeed. The states have been pretty good
at keeping...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39643Date: December 1, 2006Author:
Baharoglu,Deniz ;
De Tray,Dennis N. ;
Denning, Bill ;
Dihel,Nora Carina ;
Eschenbach,Felix ;
Grafe,Clemens ;
Hamilton,Ellen ;
Hoffman,Jariya ;
Jensen,Jesper ;
Kessides,C. Fallert ;
Kolev,Alexandre ;
Kowalski, Przemyslaw ;
Lomaia, Maka ;
Makhmoutova, Meruert ;
Mogilevsky, Roman ;
Myrzakhmet, Marat ;
Pomfret,Richard W. ;
Radosevic,Slavo ;
Raiser,Martin ;
Sakatsume, Toshiaki ;
Shemyakina,Olga ;
Sheperd, Ben ;
Svitkova, Katarina ;
Tarr,David
This report covers the activities and
achievements of the Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector
and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI) program for the reporting
period of April...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44602Date: December 1, 2006
This report looks at several aspects of
South Asia's growth and how regional integration can
contribute to growth. The South Asian Association for
Regional Cooperation...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 37858Date: December 1, 2006
Following the unprecedented worldwide
support for the victims of the tsunami and earthquakes, the
Indonesian Government and the international community
established the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 53336Date: December 1, 2006
This report is the summary environmental
impact assessment (EIA) for the World Bank (WB) financed
project named as "Construction and reconstruction
project for road...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 41131Date: December 1, 2006
Electricity shortage in the region
reinforces the importance of improving billing and
collection rates in Kosovo. A value-developing tax. Public
Private Partnerships...
The authors present a new database of
minimum distance road routes connecting 138 cities in 27
countries across Europe and Central Asia. They use it to
show that improved...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4104Date: December 1, 2006Author:
Shepherd, Ben ;
Wilson, John S.
What is the impact of terrorism on trade
through higher security at the borders? The authors set up a
theory which shows that the impact goes not only from
terrorism...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4094Date: December 1, 2006Author:
Mirza,Daniel ;
Verdier,Thierry
The purpose of this study is to provide
a comprehensive analysis of foreign trade logistics matters,
drawing up a public policy agenda intended to lower
logistics costs...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 36606Date: December 1, 2006
On November 21, 2006, to continue
supporting Bolivia in its efforts to reduce poverty, the
World Bank’s Board of Directors today discussed an Interim
Strategy Note (ISN)...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165445Date: November 21, 2006
On November 14, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Executive Directors today approved a new loan to
Croatia in the amount of US 75.3 million dollars for the
Trade and Transport...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169279Date: November 14, 2006
On November 14, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Executive Directors today approved a 100 million
dollars loan to the State of Bahia in Northeast Brazil to
increase the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168250Date: November 14, 2006
The objective of the urban transport
strategy note (UTSN) is to provide an assessment of the
urban transport system in Greater Cairo (GC), identify what
now appear to...
Type: Other Urban StudyReport#: 71432Date: November 10, 2006
Looking forward Romania needs to focus
on improving the quality and effectiveness of public
spending. Human and physical capital need to be upgraded in
order for Romania...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 36363Date: November 8, 2006
This first report on the Republic of
Montenegro, in a series of programmatic reviews, is
concerned with identifying opportunities for policy,
administrative and institutional...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 36533Date: November 3, 2006
On November 2, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Executive Directors today approved a new loan to
Romania in the amount of US180 million dollars for a
Transport Sector...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169280Date: November 2, 2006
This book reviews Latin America's
experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen
years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has
suffered from public...
Type: Recent Economic Developments in
Infrastructure (REDI)Report#: 37899Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Fay,Marianne ;
Morrison,Mary
The study set out to respond to three
questions or concerns: What is the gap between the measures
under negotiation and the systems and procedures currently
employed...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 43009Date: November 1, 2006
Uganda was among the group of 12
countries that went through the first Integrated Framework
(IF) process, for which a needs assessment was prepared and
two consultative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71819Date: November 1, 2006
Thailand's economic growth of 4.5
percent this year, the same as last year's, is a large
drop from the 6 percent that was averaged in the 2002-04
period. This is largely...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38192Date: November 1, 2006
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