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Report | 2016
Indonesia: First Indonesia Logistics Reform Development Policy Loan Project
Author(s): World Bank Group
Development Policy Loans (DPL) provide support to governments for a program of policy and institutional actions to help achieve sustainable and shared growth. The policy actions are a result of careful research analysis, stakeholder discussions and deliberation by both the government and the World Bank. The development objective of the First...
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Policy Brief | 2016
International Financial Integration of East Asia and Pacific
Author(s): Didier Brandao, Tatiana ; Llovet Montanes, Ruth ; Schmukler, Sergio L.
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region have been integrating financially with the rest of the world since the 1990s, using bilateral data on portfolio investments, syndicated bank loans, mergers and acquisitions (M&As), and greenfield investments. Four main messages emerge from...
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Policy Brief | 2013
Air Transport in the OECS: Flying Solo
Author(s): Bofinger, Heinrich C. ; Placci, Florencia Millan
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) countries faces two critical barriers for developing their infrastructure and connectivity: their conditions of island states and their geographic location in the Caribbean. Exchanges of goods and services with the rest of the world are limited to air and maritime transport modes, logistics costs...
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Policy Brief | 2013
Global Connectivity and Export Performance
Author(s): Arvis, Jean-Francois ; Shepherd, Ben
The World Bank has developed a novel method for measuring countries connectivity in global networks and has applied it to the global air transport network. Connectivity in this context is defined as a countrys relative position in that network in terms of the total push and pull it exerts on air traffic, taking account of all possible...
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Policy Brief | 2016
Innovation by Design: Conducting a Border-Crossing Time-Release Study in Belarus
Author(s): Tetyora, Victoria ; Shemshenya, Irina ; Abrashkevich, Aliaksandr
In 2015, the World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducted a border-crossing time-release study (TRS) at three points on the Belarus border. The joint team customized a standard survey methodology to gather a wider range of data as well as to overcome time and other resource constraints. This smart lesson describes the team’s...
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Report | 2013
Hydropower and Regional Development: Case Studies
Author(s): World Bank Group
IFC’s Good Practice Handbook on Cumulative Impact Assessment Management: Guidance for the Private Sector in Emerging Markets is now available online. This handbook proposes a six-step process that guides private sector companies and emerging markets in the effective design and implementation measures to manage cumulative impacts. Energy World...
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Report | 2016
White Paper- Global Energy Interconnection
Author(s): International Electrotechnical Commission
Energy is central to nearly every major challenge and opportunity the world faces. However, one fifth of the world population still lacks access to energy and 3 billion people rely on wood, coal or animal waste for cooking and heating. Today, sustainable energy and climate change are big global concerns. The interconnection of grids would open...