Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Protection and sound management of coastal and marine areas are acknowledged as important mechanisms for alleviating poverty in the developing tropics. Tanzania has had considerable practical experie...
Author: Butterfield, William / Foster, Vivien / Chen, Chuan Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In recent years, a number of emerging economies have begun to play a growing role in the finance of infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. Their combined resource flows are now comparable in scale to ...
Author: Iankova, Elena A. Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Business, Government, and EU Accession is a detailed study of how EU accession impacts the relationship between business and government in the acceding country. Iankova identifies three major mechanis...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "In a world moving very rapidly on both urbanization and globalization, cities in the developing world face both serious challenges and attractive opportunities. They can reap the benefits of economic...
Author: Mogaka, Hezron Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The report, based on a complex analytical methodology, provides a clear economic rationale for investing in improved water resources development and management in Kenya. It is part of the World Bank'...
Author: World Bank / Asian Development Bank / Japan Bank for International Cooperation Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Much of East Asia continues to grow rapidly, driven to a considerable extent by China. Urbanization is proceeding at pace. Demand for infrastructure services is increasing massively, particularly in ...
Author: Muzzini, Elisa Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Consumer Participation in Infrastructure Regulation draws on results of a survey questionnaire conducted among 45 infrastructure regulators in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region. It finds that EAP...
Author: Brown, Ashley C. / Stern, Jon / Tenenbaum, Bernard Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: More than 200 new infrastructure regulators have been created around the world in the last 15 years. They were established to encourage clear and sustainable long-term economic and legal commitments ...
Author: World Bank, Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the ev...
Author: Fay, Marianne, / Morrison, Mary, Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book reviews Latin America's experience with infrastructure reform over the last fifteen years. It argues that the region's infrastructure has suffered from public retrenchment and unrealistic ex...
Author: Teerlink, Rich / Ozley, Lee Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: More Than a Motorcycle is the story of the purposeful transformation of an American icon. While the business press was celebrating Harley-Davidson's remarkable financial turnaround in the late 1980s, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Relying on contributions from the International Movement ATD Fourth World, this book deals with questions such as: What does it mean to live in poverty, and especially in extreme poverty? How can ve...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "After the conflict ended in Angola, the country was faced with development challenges in economic and social conditions. The Government needed direction and reforms to encourage private sector partic...
Author: World Bank Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Infrastructure in Lesotho is relatively undeveloped with poor coverage and low-quality services common to many African countries that have low per capita incomes and government fiscal limitations tha...
Author: Jacobs, Scott / Coolidge, Jacqueline Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book describes the recent activities of the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (a joint facility of the IFC and the World Bank) to help governments in developing and transition economies to iden...
Author: Kessides, Ioannis Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Infrastructure is crucial for generating growth, alleviating poverty, and increasing international competitiveness. For much of the 20th century and in most countries, the network utilities that deliv...
Author: Correa, Paulo / Pereira, Carlos / Mueller, Bernardo Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This paper assesses and measures regulatory governance in 21 infrastructure regulators in Brazil. Regulatory Governance is decomposed into four main attributes: autonomy; decision-rules; means and to...
Author: Kizza, Joseph Migga / Kizza, Florence Migga Publisher: CyberTech Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As computer networks spread throughout the globe and as technology advances, we are increasingly dependent upon these networks to initiate and complete our daily tasks. However, in this steadily evolv...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Strategic Communication for Privatization, Public-Private Partnerships, and Private Participation in Infrastructure reviews the experiences of the World Bank and its clients in employing public commun...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the i...
Author: Olivry, Jean , Claude Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "The Niger River Basin, home to 100 million people, is a vital yet complex asset for West and Central Africa. It is the continent's third largest river basin, traversing nine countries -Benin, Burkina...
Author: Montague, Gilbert Holland Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Rise and Progress of the Standard Oil Company (originally published in 1903), from its inception in 1865 till its control, in 1878, of ninety-five per cent of the oil business of the United States...
Author: Mazzei, Leonardo / Scuppa, Gianmarco Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Infrastructure development in the past was often implemented without adequately taking into consideration the possible negative environmental and social impacts. Drawing from the experience of the Bum...
Author: Guasch, J. Luis Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Little over a decade ago, infrastructure concessions promised to solve Latin America's endemic infrastructure deficit. Awarded in competitive auctions, these concessions were supposed to combine priva...
