Documents & Reports
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Ghana - Transport Sector Improvement Project (TSIP) : Additional Financing : Implementation Support Mission - May 20 to 30, 2024 (English)
Document Type: Aide Memoire Report No.: 192865 Document Date: May 30, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: World Bank
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Buses, houses or cash ? socio-economic, spatial and environmental consequences of reforming public transport subsidies in Buenos Aires (English)
Transit subsidies in the urban area of Buenos Aires are high, amounting to a total of US$5 billion for 2012. They have been challenged on several counts: suspected of driving urban sprawl and associated...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8166 Document Date: August 14, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Avner,Paolo,Mehndiratta,Shomik Raj,Viguie,Vincent,Hallegatte,Stephane
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Kiribati - Food Crisis Response Operation Project (English)
The development objective of the Food Crisis Response Operation Project is to contribute to the Government of Kiribati's short-term efforts to improve the availability and affordability of food on the...
Document Type: Project Paper Report No.: 59002 Document Date: April 15, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Kiribati - Food Crisis Response Operation Project (English)
Document Type: Project Information Document Report No.: AB5762 Document Date: January 24, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Announcement of World Bank Supports Nepal’s Responses to Rising Food Prices on September 30, 2008 (English)
This press release announces that more help is on the way for millions of Nepalis living in food insecure areas where problems have been compounded by rising food prices, high fuel prices, drought, and...
Document Type: Announcement Report No.: 164898 Document Date: September 30, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Affordability and subsidies in public urban transport : what do we mean, what can be done? (English)
Subsidy policies on public urban transport have been adopted ubiquitously. In both developed and developing countries, subsidies are implemented to make transport more affordable. Despite their widespread...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4440 Document Date: December 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Estupinan,Nicolas Francisco,Gomez-Lobo,Andres,Munoz-Raskin,Ramon,Serebrisky,Tomas S.
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Public transport subsidies and affordability in Mumbai, India (English)
This paper describes the role of public transport and the nature and incidence of transport subsidies in Mumbai, India. Mumbai has an extensive rail and bus network, and public transport is used for over...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4395 Document Date: November 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cropper,Maureen L.,Bhattacharya,Soma
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Poland - Urban transport review (English)
This study grew out of the World Bank's analysis of urban transport in Warsaw, which identified the critical importance of this sector for the well-being of urban residents and the economic growth of cities...
Document Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report No.: 12962 Document Date: September 8, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed