Can features extracted from high spatial resolution satellite imagery accurately estimate poverty and economic well-being? This paper investigates this question by extracting object and texture features...
The dynamism of air traffic markets in the Middle East obscures the persistence of restrictions on international competition. But how important are such restrictions for passenger traffic? This longer...
Promoting shared prosperity is at the center of the new World Bank Group Strategy. To this effect, a shared prosperity index will help monitor the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the population...
This report is the final product of a country case study prepared in the framework of the comparative analysis of organization and performance of cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study published...
This report is the final product of a country case study prepared in the framework of the comparative analysis of organization and performance of cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study published...
As Vietnam's fourth largest urban area, Da Nang is expected to grow exponentially in the next two decades. The Da Nang priority infrastructure investment project which operates in a challenging governance...
While there are strong theoretical arguments for ways in which public spending influences growth, robust empirical links have been difficult to establish. More recently, many of the methodological problems...
In this context, a recent World Bank report investigates how Bolivia can achieve greater diversification in the nontraditional sectors through higher compositeness. The report identifies the main constraints...
This study analyzes the difficulties a poor community experienced in accessing peri-urban land in South Africa. This community, composed largely of laid-off farm workers, wanted to buy their own farm in...
Much of the growth in Sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade has come from extractive industries, rather than from private, entrepreneurial activity. Furthermore, non-extractive activity in the private...
Tanzania's ability to manage scarce water resources became a national issue in the early to mid-1990s. New opportunities in agriculture, and the greater demand for water for irrigation and hydropower...
Tanzania's ability to manage scarce water resources became a national issue in the early to mid-1990s. New opportunities in agriculture, and the greater demand for water for irrigation and hydropower...
The World Bank-assisted Nigeria Primary Education Project aims at assisting the Government of Nigeria to improve the quality of the subsector through the supply of instructional materials, upgrading of...
The World Bank-assisted Nigeria Primary Education Project aims at assisting the Government of Nigeria to improve the quality of the subsector through the supply of instructional materials, upgrading of...
Telecommunications Reform -privatization and opening markets to competition- can be a positive-sum game in which all stakeholders gain: customers, existing and new operators, employees, domestic and foreign...
Este resumen titulado “Evaluaciones ambientales y planes de acción nacionales” complementa el informe del Departamento de Evaluación de Operaciones (DEO) del Banco, “Eficacia de las evaluaciones ambientales...
This Precis entitled, Environmental assessments and national action plans, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Effectiveness of environmental assessments and national environmental...
On March 22, 1983, the International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and thirty. It was resolved that the terms and conditions upon which Portugal...
On December 7, 1982, International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred thirty. (e) Subscription and payment for shares as authorized hereunder shall be completed...
On September 1, 1959, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and thirty. It was resolved that: (i) each of the members of...