Infrastructure development is critical to delivering growth, reducing poverty, and addressing broader development goals. This paper surveys the literature on the linkages between infrastructure investment...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is no stranger to extreme temperatures. It is predicted that these extremes will worsen in the coming decades. Compounded by changing precipitation patterns...
The exhaustibility and volatility of natural resource revenues pose well-known economic challenges, of which those facing oil producers are the most prominent. If oil revenues represent an important share...
Limited innovation in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries impairs the region's potential to grow and improve its living standards. Ever since the seminal research of Solow (1957), economists have...
The objective of this policy note on people with disabilities in Sierra Leone is to: (i) provide a diagnosis on the scale and nature of the problem; (ii) analyze current public policies in support of people...
The United Nations' Special Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low- enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have...
The United Nations' Special Initiative for Africa (UNSIA) focuses on selected low- enrollment African countries in an effort to help them find pragmatic, sustainable solutions to the problems that have...
Water sector reforms in recent years have concentrated on involving the private sector in the operation and management of monopoly water utilities. Much effort has gone into regulation to stop utilities...
On April 24, 1992, the International Development Association (IDA) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and sixty four. It was resolved that the terms and conditions of the membership...
On February 1, 1990, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one hundred and sixty-four. It was resolved that (a) France is hereby authorized to subscribe...
On September 18, 1962, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of Governors adopted resolution number one sixty four. It was resolved that the by accepting membership in the...
This press release announces the Bank has not been able to negotiate successfully with the United Kingdom Colonial Development Corporation regarding a loan.