Affordable housing is an important
policy agenda in Rwanda, where housing challenges are
serious. To serve more than half of the population, Rwanda
needs a radical change...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001351Date: February 22, 2020Author:
Choi,Narae ;
Berrisford,Stephen ;
Held,Alexander Christian
Several new statistical tools and
analytical frameworks have been developed recently to
measure countries' and sectors' involvement in
global value chains. Such wealth...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9156Date: February 19, 2020Author:
Belotti,Federico ;
Borin,Alessandro ;
Mancini,Michele
Improving road safety in Bangladesh is
vital to national health, well-being, and economic growth.
As evidenced in analytical work undertaken by the World Bank
Group...
Type: ReportReport#: 146096Date: February 14, 2020Author:
Bandyopadhyay,Arnab ;
Nora,Jan Erik ;
Bose,Dipan ;
Srinivasan,Krishnan ;
Woodrooffe,John Henry Faber ;
Keats,Nigel John ;
Surie,Nitika ;
Bliss,Anthony G.
Trends in road crash fatalities over the
past four to fi ve decades show clear differences between
high-income countries and low and middle-income countries,
and between...
Type: ReportReport#: 146093Date: February 14, 2020Author:
Bandyopadhyay,Arnab ;
Nora,Jan Erik ;
Bose,Dipan ;
Srinivasan,Krishnan ;
Woodrooffe,John Henry Faber ;
Keats,Nigel John ;
Surie,Nitika ;
Bliss,Anthony G.
India has the world’s highest reported
number of annual road crash fatalities. According to the
World Health Organization, road crash fatalities in India
account for...
Type: ReportReport#: 146094Date: February 14, 2020Author:
Bandyopadhyay,Arnab ;
Nora,Jan Erik ;
Bose,Dipan ;
Srinivasan,Krishnan ;
Woodrooffe,John Henry Faber ;
Surie,Nitika ;
Bliss,Anthony G.
High road crash fatality and injury
rates on Sri Lanka’s roads are undermining the economic
growth and progress made over the past decade on reducing
poverty and boosting...
Type: ReportReport#: 146200Date: February 14, 2020Author:
Bandyopadhyay,Arnab ;
Nora,Jan Erik ;
Bose,Dipan ;
Srinivasan,Krishnan ;
Woodrooffe,John Henry Faber ;
Keats,Nigel John ;
Surie,Nitika ;
Bliss,Anthony G.
A recent World Bank Group (WBG) study of
road safety investment in South Asia revealed a crisis that
has been exacerbated by the rapid growth in vehicle
ownership and...
Type: ReportReport#: 146095Date: February 14, 2020Author:
Bandyopadhyay,Arnab ;
Nora,Jan Erik ;
Bose,Dipan ;
Srinivasan,Krishnan ;
Woodrooffe,John Henry Faber ;
Keats,Nigel John ;
Surie,Nitika ;
Bliss,Anthony G.
Tourism is an important source of
foreign exchange and employment across developing economies.
A scant literature has explored the relationship between
tourism and the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9147Date: February 13, 2020Author:
Lopez Cordova,Jose Ernesto
Urban planning and design quite
literally shape the environment around us — and that
environment, in turn, shapes how we live, work, play, move,
and rest. As such, the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 145305Date: February 12, 2020Author:
Terraza,Horacio Cristian ;
Orlando,Maria Beatriz ;
Lakovits,Carina ;
Janik,Vanessa Lopes ;
Kalashyan,Anna
Urban planning and design quite
literally shape the environment around us — and that
environment, in turn, shapes how we live, work, play, move,
and rest. As such, the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 145305Date: February 12, 2020Author:
Terraza,Horacio Cristian ;
Orlando,Maria Beatriz ;
Lakovits,Carina ;
Janik,Vanessa Lopes ;
Kalashyan,Anna
This Performance and Learning Review
(PLR) of the World Bank Group (WBG) Regional Partnership
Framework (RPF) for nine Pacific Island Countries (PIC9) for
Fiscal Year...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 145750Date: February 6, 2020
Madagascar is characterized by an
expanding economy and a peaceful transition of power,
providing a solid basis for achieving a more productive,
inclusive and sustainable...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 143987Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Sharma,Natasha ;
Razafimanantsoa Harivelo,Faniry Nantenaina ;
Sienaert,Alexis ;
Islam,Asif Mohammed ;
Geginat,Carolin ;
Echandi,Roberto ;
Schmidt,Gabriela ;
Stocker,Marc ;
Keyser,John C. ;
Boc,Gabriel ;
Elabed,Ghada ;
Nyman,Sara ;
Drozd,Maciej Adam ;
Verjee,Neelam Nizar ;
Giraud Kappen,Cecile Francoise Louise ;
Mamitiana,Fanjaniaina Prisca ;
Keijser,Charlotte Isabelle Stephaine ;
Randrianarison,Harimino Lalaina ;
Crouzel,Ivan ;
Rajenarison,Lira Hariravaka ;
Oolun,Mukund Krishna ;
Arenas,Guillermo Carlos
The sustainable development of a
county’s territory is linked to performance requirements
thatmust combine the protection offered by the statutory
plans (County Spatial...
Achieving the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) over the next 30 years will critically depend
upon urban land use and infrastructure development actions
taken across...
The authors use Kosovo's
transaction-level import value, tariff duties and transport
cost data for very finely disaggregated products to test the
Alchian-Allen conjecture....
Considering Romania’s national climate
change strategy 2013-2020 and the 2016-2020 national action
plan on climate change, the general urban plan of Brasov
will focus...
Type: ReportReport#: 161665Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Sislen,David N. ;
Proskuryakova,Tatiana A. ;
Mitrea,Andrei ;
Cristea,Marius ;
Cucu,Adriana Sorina ;
Chirila,Corina Teodora ;
Ionescu-Heroiu,Marcel ;
Mihailescu,Adrian Laurentiu ;
Vintan,Adina Dorina ;
Irimia,Ioana-Alexandra ;
Moldoveanu,George Alexandru ;
Butacu,Bianca-Cristina
The short-term impact of coronavirus
outbreak (i.e., 2019-nCov) on Vietnam’s economy could be
significant, as high 6-10 percent of monthly output, but
short-lived if...
Type: BriefReport#: 148589Date: February 1, 2020Author:
Morisset,Jacques ;
Mitra, Deepak
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