Documents & Reports
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Avian and Human Influenza (English)
Avian and human flu raises the specter of a global pandemic that can kill hundreds of millions, make billions ill, and cost trillions of dollars. Uncoordinated actions in response to a future outbreak...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135358 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Jonas,Olga B.
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Colombia : Cartagena Water Supply and Sewerage (English)
Cartagena is a coastal city in Colombia, and tourism is a main pillar of the economy. In 2000, pollution from domestic wastewater was contaminating tourist beaches, degrading the environment, and producing...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135363 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Browder,Greg J.,Yee,Carmen
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Latvia - Who is Unemployed, Inactive or Needy? (English)
The central challenge was a lack of information about Latvia’s poor and unemployed, which was needed to develop anti-poverty programs and effectively target beneficiaries. While Latvia has among the highest...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135432 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Sinnott,Emily
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Kuwait - Enhancing Labor Market Information Systems (English)
Mismatches in the labor market negatively impacted employment opportunities, and policymakers in Kuwait were unable to make evidence-based decisions to correct these distortions. Information crucial for...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135435 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alkhoja,Ghassan N.
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Cambodia : Second Education Sector Support Project (English)
Drop-out rates due to economic reasons in upper primary and secondary schools have been very high in Cambodia. This program focused on the design, scaling-up, and mainstreaming of scholarship programs...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135361 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Beng,Simeth
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Argentina : Road Safety (English)
Road crash fatalities are an epidemic in the developing world, the number one killer of the young, with huge economic and social costs. These fatalities can only be stabilized and then reduced if all actors...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135357 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Raffo,Veronica Ines
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Global Scaling Up Rural Sanitation (English)
Worldwide, 2.5 billion people lack access to improved sanitation, and three quarters of these people live in rural areas. Seeking to respond to this development challenge, in 2007, the World Bank initiated...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135391 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Perez,Eduardo
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India : Improving Rural Livelihoods in Bihar (English)
The state of Bihar has some of the worst social and economic indicators in India, with significant challenges of social exclusion, lack of access to finance, landlessness, low food security, and indebtedness...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135393 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Shah,Parmesh
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Tanzania - Productive Safety Net Project (English)
In Tanzania, despite compulsory education for children from 5-12 years, those from poor households often either drop out of school or are not enrolled in school because their parents cannot afford to pay...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135425 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Manjolo,Ida,Salazar,Manuel
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FYR Macedonia : Public Expenditure Policy Based Guarantee (English)
The Euro Zone turmoil during 2011-2012 created strong headwinds for Macedonia’s economy, leaving it facing a complex tangle of problems with negative impact on citizens: low revenues, unpaid government...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135364 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hansl,Birgit
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India : DSCL Sugar - Increasing Productivity (English)
DCM Shriram Consolidated Limited (DSCL), an International Finance Corporation (IFC) investment client, is one of the major sugar producers in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, providing the 150,000 sugar...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135392 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Roberts,Bradford Lee,Vivek,Harsh
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Ghana : Disaster Preparedness and Watershed Management (English)
Recurring floods in the north of Ghana called for an improved flood forecasting system to better manage the situation, and find long-term solutions for mitigation. However, in working towards this there...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135390 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dingel,Carl Christian
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Nicaragua - The ECOM Monitoring Pilot (English)
The development challenge was low productivity, and therefore low income, among coffee farmers. A significant demand existed for services to improve productivity, such as market information, financing...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135480 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Yemen, Republic of - Social Fund for Development Phase Four (English)
In Yemen, a high proportion of the population lives in poverty, with low access to health, education, water, and other basic services. This falls particularly heavily upon vulnerable populations, such...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135427 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Hong,Mira
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Indonesia : Partnership for Knowledge-Based Poverty Reduction (English)
Partners in the Government of Indonesia face challenges in producing rigorous evidence and applying it to develop policy and program responses to reduce poverty and vulnerability, tackle inequality, and...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135389 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Alatas,Vivi
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Morocco : National Initiative for Human Development (English)
The main development challenge was a lack of participatory mechanisms to identify peoples’ needs for programs to alleviate poverty and social exclusion. The Moroccan government’s approach to dealing with...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135478 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Medouar,Mohamed,Liverani,Andrea
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Morocco - Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Project Phase One (English)
Morocco is the largest energy importer in the MENA region, but it is also seeking to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels, as well as its carbon footprint. In 2010, Morocco adopted a ‘National...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135479 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Afghanistan : Rural Enterprise Development Program (English)
About 80 percent of Afghanistan’s population depends on agriculture and livestock for a living. This project sought to improve the incomes of rural men and women working in the agricultural sector by helping...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135356 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Akbar,Kamran
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Indonesia : National Program for Community Empowerment in Rural Areas (English)
The government of Indonesia needed to cost-effectively deliver basic services and assistance to the rural poor across its vast territory. The government, with World Bank funding and technical assistance...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135394 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Woo,Sonya
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Nigeria - ICT for Social Accountability (English)
The development challenge was to ensure better service provision in health and agriculture by effectively collecting feedback from World Bank project beneficiaries in Nigeria. The project had to avoid...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 135424 Document Date: February 28, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Rossiasco,Paula