• Mozambique - Mining an opportunity
    Mozambique is rich in minerals and has a favorable geological environment for the development of mining activities. However, in 2001, the impact of mining on the economy was hardly noticeable - repres...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94383 التاريخ : August 29, 2009
  • Ethiopia - Public works and grants create safety net
    This Results Profile talks about public works and grants to create safety net in Ethiopia. For a quarter-century, images of severe drought and widespread starvation have become relentlessly linked wit...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94397 التاريخ : August 29, 2009
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bridges for peace
    This Results Profile focuses on bridges for peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The bridge became a symbol of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s tolerance in a region known for its ethnic and religious diversity u...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94384 التاريخ : August 29, 2009
  • Protecting the Mekong Delta to serve its people
    This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, IDA contribution, partners, and next steps.
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94350 التاريخ : August 28, 2009
  • Powering up rural development
    This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, IDA contribution, and next steps.
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94352 التاريخ : August 28, 2009
  • Haiti - Disaster risk management weathers storms to save lives
    According to the World Bank’s natural disaster hotspot study of 2006, Haiti is one of the country’s most vulnerable to adverse natural events. The emergency recovery and disaster management project (E...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94381 التاريخ : August 28, 2009
  • Renewing Mangrove forest for more secure livelihoods
    This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, IDA contribution, partners, and next steps.
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94351 التاريخ : August 28, 2009
  • Access to all weather roads has developmemt on the move
    This paper includes the following headings: challenge, approach, results, IDA contribution, and next steps.
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 94353 التاريخ : August 28, 2009
  • Building knowledge economies : advanced strategies for development
    Knowledge has always been an essential force in economic development. Chapter one, describes the knowledge revolution, which is leading us into a postindustrial age in which brains, not brawn, are the...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 41172 التاريخ : July 5, 2009
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Governance News and Notes
    This issue of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Governance News and Notes includes the following headings: a note from the publisher; governance newsmaker interview with Dr. Nasser Saidi, Executive ...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 48977 التاريخ : June 1, 2009
  • Yemen - Mineral sector review
    Dependence on the oil sector as a source of economic growth is no longer sustainable given the rate at which oil reserves are being depleted. Yemen will come to rely on other sectors of the economy, s...
    النوع : Mining/Oil and Gas تقرير #: 47985 التاريخ : June 1, 2009
  • Asset and liability management for deposit-taking microfinance institutions
    Even the most mature microfinance institutions (MFIs) need to pay attention to their balance sheet to manage financial risks. All financial institutions take risks to make money. Risk management helps...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 49146 التاريخ : June 1, 2009 المؤلف: Brom, Karla
  • The political economy of the World Bank : the early years
    This book covers the early years of the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), commonly known as the World Bank when it first confronted the issue of development as a fundamental...
    النوع : Publication تقرير #: 55403 التاريخ : May 20, 2009 المؤلف: Alacevich, Michele
  • The moral compass of companies : business ethics and corporate governance as anti-corruption tools
    This FOCUS 7 publication provides an in-depth examination of a major corporate governance policy, initiative, or issue through a combination of research, case studies, and expert opinion. Unlike a tra...
    النوع : Working Paper (Numbered Series) تقرير #: 47791 التاريخ : April 16, 2009 المؤلف: Sullivan, John D.
  • The World Bank urban and local government strategy : concept and issues note
    Urbanization is a defining phenomenon of this century, and the developing world is the locus in which this demographic transformation is taking place. In the decade since the preparation of the last B...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 49163 التاريخ : April 15, 2009
  • Development horizons
    In this issue: the financial crisis; Lebanon: moving forward with the pension reform in Lebanon; Syria: short and medium term growth prospectus; Jordan: education reforms for knowledge economy; and Ir...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 57793 التاريخ : April 1, 2009 المؤلف: Ba, Demba ; Badr, Ziad A. ; Barghuthi, Asaeel ; Minatelli, Janet Lynn ; Happi, Jean-Michel ; Ibrahim, May ; El Khalil, Zeina ; Maisterra, Pilar ; Mocci, Stefano ; Saleh, Marian Mohamed ; Stolp, Simon J. ; Yamouri, Najat ; Ziade, Mona
  • Microfinance managers consider online funding : is it finance, marketing, or something else entirely?
    Online platforms are changing the way we engage with the world. Face book links, eBay auctions, ePal chats, even second life avatars-these are all online platforms that connect people, ideas, products...
    النوع : Brief تقرير #: 49145 التاريخ : April 1, 2009 المؤلف: Burand, Deborah Kay
  • Seizing opportunity from crisis : making multilateralism work by Robert B. Zoellick
    These remarks were delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, at the Thomson Reuters Building, Canary Wharf, London on March 31, 2009. Almost eighty years ago, John Maynard Keynes, ...
    النوع : President's Speech تقرير #: 124557 التاريخ : March 31, 2009 المؤلف: Zoellick, Robert B.
  • Physical cultural resources safeguard policy : guidebook
    The aim of this guidebook is to facilitate the implementation of the World Bank's safeguard policy, Physical Cultural Resources, set out in Operational Policy (OP) 4.11 and Bank Procedures (BP) 4.11. ...
    النوع : Working Paper تقرير #: 71330 التاريخ : March 1, 2009 المؤلف: Campbell, Ian Leslie
  • Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Governance News and Notes
    This issue of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Governance News and Notes includes the following headings: a note from the publisher; governance newsmaker interview with Dr. Naser Al-Sane, chair of ...
    النوع : Newsletter تقرير #: 47719 التاريخ : March 1, 2009