This review covers the FY03-05 Country
Assistance Strategy (CAS) and the FY06-07 Interim CAS
(ICAS). Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) has also prepared
a Country Assistance...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 43391Date: April 23, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved an
additional financing in an amount of forty million US
dollars to Madagascar...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163661Date: April 17, 2008
This press release has the announcement
by the World Bank that Rosina M. Bierbaum, Professor and
Dean at the University of Michigan and Marianne Fay, Lead
Economist...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163380Date: April 17, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick declared new
initiative to help developing countries manage and transform
their natural...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164695Date: April 12, 2008
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
daily brief economics and financial market commentary
newsletter are...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61022Date: April 11, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
DeKleine, Annette
This press release announces that high
food prices are threatening recent gains in overcoming
poverty and malnutrition, and are likely to persist over the
medium term,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164469Date: April 9, 2008
This press release announces on April 9,
2008, that the World Bank Board of Executive Directors
endorsed the day before a new Country Partnership Strategy
(CPS) for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163592Date: April 9, 2008
This press release announces the World
Bank officials warned that the countries of Eastern Europe,
Central Europe, and Central Asia face slower economic growth
as a...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163413Date: April 9, 2008
This press release by the World Bank
Group, in conjunction with the Inter-American Development
Bank, announces on April 8, 2008, that a two-day meeting
will take place...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163396Date: April 8, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Directors endorsed the new Country
Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Mexico on April 8, 2008. It
captures the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163562Date: April 8, 2008
This speech was delivered by Robert B.
Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, to the Center
for Global Development in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2008.
The World...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124787Date: April 2, 2008Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick declared a
package of proposals designed to help African countries
address rising...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163545Date: April 2, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick outlined a
plan for sovereign wealth funds to invest one percent of
their holdings...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164473Date: April 2, 2008
This paper quantifies how African
farmers have adapted their crop and irrigation decisions to
their farm's current agro-ecological zone. The results
indicate that farmers...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4600Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Seo, Niggol ;
Mendelsohn, Robert ;
Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep ;
Dinar, Ariel ;
Hassan, Rashid
Rural electrification programs are
generally motivated by the effective and lasting impacts
that they are expected to generate in the field. While there
may be some...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 48643Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Gouvello, Christophe de ;
Durix, Laurent
Contents of the development outreach
newsletter are as follows: climate change: low carbon
economies and resilient societies, achieving low carbon
growth for the world:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57665Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Stern, Lord Nicholas ;
Moosa, Mohammed Valli ;
Sweeney, James L. ;
Xuedu, Lu ;
Guiyang, Zhuan ;
Jiahua, Pan ;
Ray, Rajasree ;
Oskal, Anders ;
Ford, Violet ;
Kearney, Geraldine ;
Gupta, Arvind ;
Mckee, Katharine ;
Denton, Fatima ;
O'neill, Mary ;
Stone, John M.R. ;
Mead, Leila ;
Gitay, Habiba ;
Noble, Ian ;
Nevers, Michele de
One of the principal concerns today for
the deteriorating quality of water supply and sanitation
services in India is the high levels of non revenue water
(NRW)-the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44126Date: April 1, 2008
The global need for power is enormous.
Today, 1.6 billion people lack access to electricity, and
2.4 billion rely on traditional biomass fuels for cooking
and heating....
Countries may have different reasons for
engaging in Supplier Development. For the majority. the
basic arguments such as the Economic Multiplier will be seen
as compelling....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69221Date: April 1, 2008
In India, currently over 80 percent of
the municipal solid waste generated is dumped out in the
open. At current estimates, that is almost 100,000 tons
being added to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 72219Date: April 1, 2008Author:
Bhatnagar,Vandana ;
Gupta,Sanjay Kumar
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