This news release, dated March 14, 2005,
announces the World Bank Board of Executive Directors
approved an International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD)...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169451Date: March 14, 2005
This news release, dated March 11, 2005,
announces World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn welcomed
the release of the Commission for Africa report. The World
Bank...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166925Date: March 11, 2005
This paper considers the major issues
confronting the financing and management of road transport
infrastructure in Africa today. From the starting point of
accelerating...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 38454Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Brushett,Stephen Jeremy
Within the framework of the China Fuzhou
Urban Transport Project, this environmental assessment
summary outlines the funding of transport infrastructure,
discusses likely...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 32480Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Guangzhou Research Institute of
Environmental Pr
The purpose of this policy note is to
respond to the request from the Government of India for the
World Bank to provide support to the development of the
urban transport...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62610Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Chatterton,Isabel ;
Mitric,Slobodan
In the last two decades, the Gross
Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate in India has been around
5.5 percent with the economy growing about 2.6 times
reaching a level...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62609Date: March 1, 2005
The instrument for the establishment of
the restructured Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides
for the convening of an Assembly of all participants to
review GEF's...
Type: Global Environment Facility Working PaperReport#: 46701Date: March 1, 2005
Infrastructure is crucial for generating
growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international
competitiveness. For much of the twentieth century and in
most countries,...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76747Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Kessides, Ioannis N.
Recipient government responses to
development project aid have typically been studied at high
levels of aggregation, using cross-country comparisons
and/or aggregate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS3542Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Cratty, Dorothyjean ;
Van De Walle,Dominique
Increasing access to basic
infrastructure, and social services is critical to reducing
poverty, and achieving the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). However, increasing...
Albania Quarterly aims to inform about
overall economic developments in Albania and the World Bank
Group activities in the country. The newsletter consists of
eight...
Albania is a lower middle income country
with a gross national income per capita of US$1,740 in 2003.
It is a largely agricultural economy. However, the share of
agriculture...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 33521Date: March 1, 2005Author:
Gjukutaj, Ana
This news release, dated February 23,
2005, announces the Government of Uganda signed a financing
agreement with the World Bank worth a total of United States
(U.S.)...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167507Date: February 23, 2005
This news release, dated February 16,
2005, announces the World Bank’s Board of Executive
Directors approved a loan of United States (U.S.) 100
million dollars to the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167316Date: February 16, 2005
This news release, dated February 8,
2005, announces as trade facilitation negotiations at the
World Trade Organization (WTO) enter a new phase, the World
Bank released...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165733Date: February 8, 2005
To support our move toward a more
results-based performance management framework, a
significant budget reform initiative is being introduced
starting this year. The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141042Date: February 1, 2005
On May 1, 2004 Estonia, Latvia and
Lithuania joined the European Union. This had a significant
impact on day-to-day trade practices with other EU countries
and with...
Type: PublicationReport#: 31121Date: February 1, 2005Author:
Hoffmann,Torsten M. ;
Naula,Tapio Kalle Olavi ;
Ojala,Lauri M.
The project involves the repair and
reinstatement of roads selected by the relevant government
authorities. A labor-based rapid repair method was chosen to
create employment...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 34066Date: February 1, 2005
Taxis perform an important function in
urban transport markets in both developed and developing
countries. Because of the perceived vulnerability of
passengers to exploitation...
Type: BriefReport#: 33896Date: February 1, 2005Author:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M.
Every year more than half a million
maternal deaths and around four million perinatal deaths
occur in low and middle-income countries, mostly among the
poorest groups...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 54518Date: February 1, 2005Author:
Merrick, Thomas W.;
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