Highlight of critical national
challenges. From the World Bank's global press
archive. Featuring special global events of the month.
Summary of key country events...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37234Date: September 1, 2005
This report presents the full range of
options for rural road surfacing against a background of
issues and constraints with the aim of assisting decision
makers to make...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37192Date: September 1, 2005Author:
MWH New Zealand Ltd.
Trade facilitation is the ability of
countries to deliver goods and services on time at the
lowest possible cost. It has emerged as an important issue
in unilateral,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS3703Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Bagai,Shweta ;
Roy,Jayanta
This is the non-technical summary to the
environmental assessment for the Azerbaijan Highway Project,
which improves a section of the Baku-Alyat-Astara highway to
reduce...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 34011Date: September 1, 2005
In many countries the private sector has
been involved in financing infrastructure through
concessions under a public-private partnership (PPP)
program. PPP schemes,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 33910Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Queiroz,Cesar Augusto
This paper reviews the performance of
railway concessions in Latin America over the period
extending from the initial Argentina concessions in
1991-1993 through 2004....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 33908Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Sharp,Richard G.
Somalia has lacked a recognized
government since 1991. In extremely difficult conditions the
private sector has demonstrated its much vaunted capability
to make do....
Type: BriefReport#: 33649Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Harford,Timothy Douglas ;
Nenova,Tatiana
This study examined the dynamics of
global urban expansion by defining a new universe of 3,943
cities with population in excess of 100,000 and drawing a
stratified global...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 35563Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Angel, Shlomo ;
Chabaeva, Anna ;
Gitlin, Lucy ;
Kraley, Alison ;
Parent, Jason ;
Perlin, Micah
The study focuses on analyzing and
assessing some main features of the situation and the
implementation results of Comprehensive Poverty Reduction
and Growth Strategy...
Type: Other Poverty StudyReport#: 69415Date: September 1, 2005
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: Bank President
visits India; transport development in India and China: a
comparison;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 54068Date: September 1, 2005
This paper has been prepared for the
World Bank as one of a series of research papers focusing on
rail privatization experience throughout the world. The
scope of this...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 33909Date: September 1, 2005Author:
Greig, David ;
Wallis, Ian ;
Williams, Robert
This news release, dated August 31,
2005, announces infrastructure has improved in most of Latin
America and the Caribbean (LAC) over the last decade, but a
sharp fall...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167198Date: August 31, 2005
This news release, dated August 18,
2005, announces the Palawan State University (PSU) opens its
doors to give the people of Palawan opportunities for
informed discussion...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166911Date: August 18, 2005
This note puts forth the proposition to
establish a pilot joint terminal for clearance of outbound
articulated trucks leaving Gaza for destinations in Israel
or to Israeli...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40452Date: August 2, 2005
The Bank initially financed equipment
such as aircraft and infrastructure for state owned
airlines. With the liberalization of the air transport
sector worldwide, and...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 67836Date: August 1, 2005
This news release, dated August 1, 2005,
announces the World Bank signed two grant agreements with
the Majesty’s Government of Nepal in Kathmandu, totaling
United States...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169526Date: August 1, 2005
This project aimed to establish a
performance test specification to ensure that when a
PV-powered solar lantern (PVSL) successfully completed the
tests, it would be...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 34905Date: August 1, 2005
The goal of Education for All (EFA) is
to provide universal access to primary education throughout
the world. To accomplish this goal, as many as 10 million
classrooms...
Type: BriefReport#: 38864Date: August 1, 2005Author:
Steinfeld, Edward
This is an environmental and
socioeconomic assessment of the Azerbaijan Second Highway
Project, which rehabilitates the Ganja-Gazakh road section,
including constructing...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 33488Date: August 1, 2005Author:
Azerbaijan
This note points out that the general
objective of the Palestinian short-term tasks at Karni is to
establish an effective cargo handling terminal on the Gaza
side of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40454Date: July 30, 2005
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