This synthesis report presents a summary of analytical work undertaken to explore areas that significantly impact the infrastructure sector’s performance and sustainability, but which are often overlooked...
This paper develops a dynamic model that explains the pattern of population and production allocation in an economy with an urban location and a rural one. Agglomeration economies make urban dwellers benefit...
If the South Asia region hopes to meet its development goals and not risk slowing down or even halting growth, poverty alleviation, and shared prosperity, it is essential to make closing its huge infrastructure...
The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast-growing population. The importance of access to basic infrastructure services on welfare...
While South Asia's average gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the past decade was only slightly lower than in East Asia and the Pacific, the region significantly lags behind in terms of infrastructure...
Pakistan’s population is growing and becoming more urbanized. By 2020, Karachi and Lahore will each have a population of well over 10 million people and several other cities will have a population of at...
Despite recent rapid growth and poverty reduction, the South Asia Region (SAR) continues to suffer from a combination of insufficient economic growth, slow urbanization, and huge infrastructure gaps that...
The Mexico country partnership strategy (CPS), covering FY2014-2019, is fully aligned with the goals of Mexico's national development plan (NDP) for 2013-2018 and supports the Government of Mexico's development...
On a trend decline since 1960, Pakistan's economic growth is highly dependent on financial inflows of aid and worker's remittances. Manufacturing has great potential, though, based on a growing labor force...
The report starts with an overview and introduces the main findings. It addresses major constraints, instruments, and outcomes important to unleash the potential of infrastructure investments and policy...
The Government of Pakistan's (GoP's) 2011 Framework for Economic Growth seeks to place Pakistan on a sustained high economic growth path of 7 percent per year through measures to reduce the cost of doing...
This paper builds on available literature about the informal sector and environmental policymaking. Its goal is to raise awareness about urban informal sector contamination and to establish an initial...
This note examines broad questions of environmental institution building, focusing on basic elements that help explain an institution's success, possibly, applicable as well, to environmental government...
Sustainable economic development is inseparable from wise management of natural resources. In the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, debt and adjustment concerns that dominated the policy agenda...