Documents & Reports
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Riding the Wave of Digital Transformation : Insights from Japan’s Journey (English)
In the dawn of the new millennium, Japan found itself lagging in the global race to embrace information and communication technology (ICT). In 2000, its internet penetration was only at a modest rate of...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 190560 Document Date: May 23, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Masic,Joanna Mclean,Choi,Narae,Nakagawa,Naomitsu,Kohno,Michinaga,Zhou,Yimin,Arcot,Chitra Vijayara
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Renforcer la Prise en Compte de l’Accessibilité Universelle dans le Cadre Bâti au Sénégal : Guide Pratique Sénégal (French)
Persons with disabilities are particularly vulnerable, as they suffer disproportionately from social and economic stigmatization and various forms of exclusion. Intensifying inequalities affect persons...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 189798 Document Date: May 2, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae,Ba,Sokhna,Coulibaly,Mamani Massiri,Newman,Charles Kevin,Hasoloan,Jonathan Todo,Semichon, Marine,Ayih-Akakpo, Ayih M. Arnold,Boltz, Caroline,Diagne,Mamadou,Seck, Mokhtar,Varna, Bea
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Global Smart City Partnership Program Engagement Guidance Note (English)
This note is developed to guide the World Bank Group (WBG) teams in their policy and investment dialogues with the clients on smart cities. It introduces the key features, building blocks and development...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 183070 Document Date: June 21, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae,Hasoloan,Jonathan Todo
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Cities, Jobs, and Local Economic Development : A Guidance Note for Task Teams (English)
Cities offer enormous opportunities for economic growth and job creation. When local businesses succeed, they create demand for workers, inputs, materials, and additional services, increase productivity...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 189802 Document Date: May 1, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baker,Judy L.,Choi,Narae,Gonzalez Schuler,Manuel Andres,Sivaev,Dmitry
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Housing Solutions for Low-Income Urban Communities in Rwanda (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main Report (English)
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 in its approach to housing that...
Document Type: Report Report No.: AUS0001351 Document Date: February 22, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae,Berrisford,Stephen,Held,Alexander Christian
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Housing Solutions for Low-Income Urban Communities in Rwanda (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annexes (English)
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 in its approach to housing that...
Document Type: Report Report No.: AUS0001351 Document Date: February 4, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae,Berrisford,Stephen,Held,Alexander Christian
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Concept Project Information Document (PID) - Rwanda Urban Development Project II - P165017 (English)
Document Type: Project Information Document Report No.: PIDC26643 Document Date: June 14, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Disclosable Version of the ISR - Rwanda Urban Development Project - P150844 - Sequence No : 07 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR36657 Document Date: April 23, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Disclosable Version of the ISR - Tanzania Strategic Cities Project - P111153 - Sequence No : 19 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR36162 Document Date: April 23, 2019 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Disclosable Version of the ISR - Rwanda Urban Development Project - P150844 - Sequence No : 06 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR34638 Document Date: November 15, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Disclosable Version of the ISR - Tanzania Strategic Cities Project - P111153 - Sequence No : 18 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR34480 Document Date: November 14, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Disclosable Version of the ISR - Rwanda Urban Development Project - P150844 - Sequence No : 05 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR32510 Document Date: June 15, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Disclosable Version of the ISR - Rwanda Urban Development Project - P150844 - Sequence No : 04 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR30668 Document Date: December 21, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Reshaping urbanization in Rwanda : economic and spatial trends and proposals - note 2 : internal migration in Rwanda (English)
The objective of this report is to inform the government’s policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internal migration...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 122175 Document Date: December 8, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bundervoet,Tom,Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Nakamura,Shohei,Choi,Narae
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Reshaping urbanization in Rwanda : economic and spatial trends and proposals - note 1 : urbanization and the evolution of Rwanda’s urban landscape (English)
The objective of this report is to inform the government’s policies and strategies on urbanization as a driver of economic development, job creation, and poverty reduction. Note 1 examines Rwanda’s urbanization...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 122174 Document Date: December 7, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bundervoet,Tom,Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Nakamura,Shohei,Choi,Narae
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Reshaping urbanization in Rwanda : economic and spatial trends and proposals - note 3 : urbanization,job creation, and poverty reduction in Rwanda (English)
This note analyzes whether and how the country’s rising urbanization levels (measured primarily by population density) are associated with nonfarm job creation and poverty reduction. By focusing on Rwanda’s...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 122184 Document Date: December 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bundervoet,Tom,Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Nakamura,Shohei,Choi,Narae
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Reshaping urbanization in Rwanda : economic and spatial trends and proposals - synthesis report (English)
Rwanda has demonstrated a remarkable performance in economic growth and poverty reduction in the past decade and a half. With urbanization as an explicit developmental strategy, the government has indeed...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 122178 Document Date: December 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bundervoet,Tom,Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Nakamura,Shohei,Choi,Narae
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Reshaping urbanization in Rwanda : economic and spatial trends and proposals - note 4 : profiling secondary cities in Rwanda - dynamics and opportunities (English)
Reshaping Urbanization in Rwanda: Economic and Spatial Trends and Proposals is an Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA), jointly provided by the Poverty and Equity Global Practice and the Social, Urban...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 122185 Document Date: December 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bundervoet,Tom,Parby,Jonas Ingemann,Nakamura,Shohei,Choi,Narae
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Rwanda - Rwanda Urban Development Project : P150844 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 03 (English)
Document Type: Implementation Status and Results Report Report No.: ISR28740 Document Date: June 28, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Choi,Narae
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Malawi economic monitor : harnessing the urban economy (English)
The Malawi Economic Monitor (MEM) provides an analysis of economic and structural development issues in Malawi. This edition of the MEM was published in May 2017. It follows on from the four previous editions...
Document Type: Economic Updates and Modeling Report No.: 115253 Document Date: May 25, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Record,Richard James Lowden,Kandoole,Priscilla Flaness,Choi,Narae,Stylianou,Eleni,Kalemba,Sunganani Violet