The development objective of the Gansu
Rural-Urban Integration Infrastructure Project for China is
to provide residents in select areas of Wuwei municipality
and Linxia...
The development objective of the Sichuan
and Chongqing Cooperation : Guang'an Demonstration Area
Infrastructure Development Project for China is to support
Linshui County...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 91345Date: August 1, 2014
Open Data initiatives are transforming
how governments and other public institutions interact and
provide services to their constituents. They increase
transparency...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 89383Date: July 1, 2014
Mobile phone coverage has expanded
considerably throughout the developing world, particularly
within sub-Saharan Africa. Existing evidence suggests that
increased access...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6986Date: July 1, 2014Author:
Aker, Jenny C. ;
Fafchamps, Marcel
This paper studies the impact of the
rapid expansion of the Brazilian road network, which
occurred from the 1960s to the 2000s, on the growth and
spatial allocation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6964Date: July 1, 2014Author:
Bird, Julia ;
Straub, Stephane
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in
Africas water sector date back to 1959, with the
implementation of the Côte dIvoire urban water afterimagea
successful operation...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 91306Date: July 1, 2014
The Committee on Development
Effectiveness (CODE) met to consider Independent Evaluation
Group's (IEG's) World Bank Group support to
public-private partnership's (PPP's)...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 90188Date: June 9, 2014
Thanks to stronger exports and sustained
government demand, the economy has remained resilient and
the country reached the growth forecast for 2014 to 3
percent. While...
Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar,
Jharkhand, and West Bengal, with their high concentration of
population, agricultural productivity, and growing
manufacturing...
Type: Other Rural StudyReport#: 91244Date: June 1, 2014Author:
Agarwala, Parul ;
Kim, Sangmoo ;
Mehta, Barjor ;
Ellis, Peter ;
Dowall, David ;
Roberts, Mark ;
Songsu Choi ;
Sang Hyun Cheon ;
Maria, Augustin ;
Vittal, Ireena ;
Jain, Vibhu ;
Kaw, Jon Kher ;
Sriram, Jyoti ;
Saleman, Yannick ;
Kamphuis, Bertine ;
Eijbergen, Ben ;
Agarwal, Atul ;
Basu, Rakhi ;
Medvedev, Denis ;
Vutukuru, Vinay
The Committee on Development
Effectiveness met to consider independent evaluation
group's (IEG's) learning and results in World Bank
operations: evaluation I and draft...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 89204Date: May 12, 2014
South Africa occupies a central position
in the global debate regarding the most effective policy
instruments to accelerate and sustain private investment in
renewable...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 91303Date: May 1, 2014Author:
Eberhard, Anton; Kolker, Joel; Leighland, James
This report is a product of the
Executive Boards meeting of the International Comparison
Program (ICP) held in New York on February 21, 2010. The ICP
quality assurance...
The national slum dwellers federation of
Uganda (NSDFU) and ACTogether believe that a key tool for
promoting active citizenship in communities of the urban
poor is enumeration...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 99246Date: January 1, 2014
The country profile for India is based
on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the World
Bank in 2014. The Enterprise Surveys focus on the many
factors that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 99347Date: January 1, 2014
A growing number of developing country
governments are interested in using public-private
partnerships (PPPs) to provide public infrastructure assets
and services. The...
The acceptance of volunteered geographic
information (VGI) as a valued and useful source of
information for governments is growing at all levels. The
aim of this report...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 92239Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Haklay, Mordechai ;
Antoniou, Vyron ;
Basiouka, Sofia ;
Soden, Robert ;
Mooney, Peter
The country profile for Afghanistan is
based on data from the enterprise surveys conducted by the
World Bank in 2014. The enterprise surveys focus on the many
factors...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 92289Date: January 1, 2014
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