Similar Search Results

Freight Flows,Logistics Costs, and Efficiency : Optimal Path Analysis

World Bank - 2012

In Central America, cargo is transported almost entirely by road. The movement of imports and exports to and from international seaports is done by truck. Rail service is almost nonexistent and air transport serves less than one percent of the cargo generated within the Central American Common...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012579094

Freight Flows,Logistics Costs, and Efficiency : Optimal Path Analysis

World Bank - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247515

Eswatini Public Finance Review

World Bank - 2025

Eswatini's fundamental policy challenge is to address the longstanding factors that have constrained growth and hindered broad-based improvements in living standards. Given the state's significant role in the economy, the build-up of macro imbalances, and slow improvements in social indicators,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015372312

The Case for Cycling Infrastructure Investments

World Bank - 2025

The Case for Cycling Infrastructure Investments presents CyclingMax, a cost-benefit analysis tool designed to assist decision-makers in evaluating investments in cycling infrastructure. The report highlights the multiple benefits of cycling infrastructure, including safety improvements,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015372384

Knowledge, Data, and Information

World Bank - 2025

Africa has significant potential to improve its climate-smart sustainable development by focusing on the Blue Economy. However, efforts to reach this potential are stymied by poor access to relevant data and knowledge due to inadequate historical investments in technology and institutional...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015372465

Sustainable Fisheries

World Bank - 2025

Climate change will have implications for the sustainability of Africa's fisheries sector, with knock-on consequences for local livelihoods, income, nutrition security, and economic development. The effects of climate change are already being felt in some parts of the continent's vast coastline,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015372488

Integrated Urban Land Management for Climate Sensitive Cities

World Bank - 2025

This report synthesizes lessons learned from the studies and interventions commissioned by the World Bank in Ethiopia from 2022-2024 to support integrated urban land management - highlighting the potential contribution integrated urban land approaches can play in achieving the long-term climate...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015424948

Cabo Verde Public Finance Review

World Bank - 2025

Cabo Verde has long been a story of economic success, but growth decelerated in the last decade and has become more volatile - with implications for fiscal performance. Economic growth and social indicators improved significantly after the country's independence from Portugal in 1975, driven by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015424950

Policies for Prosperity

World Bank - 2025

While the Philippines has been one of the most dynamic economies in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region, with gross national income (GNI) per capita more than tripling, and poverty declining sharply from 33.5 percent in 2000 to 18.1 percent in 2021, it still faces a complex range of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015411851

Consumer Price Index Manual : Theory, 2025

International Monetary Fund - 2025

The Theory publication and the companion on the practice of compiling consumer price indices (CPIs) is jointly … the update of the Theory publication and the CPI Manual. Drafting of this publication was led by Erwin Diewert with … support from various authors. The Theory publication will be translated into Spanish, French, Arabic, and Russian …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015452128