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Regional Development : Lessons from International Experience Applicable for Kazakhstan

Akkaya, Sebnem - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2011

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India - Public Financial Management and Accountability in Panchayati Raj Institutions (Rural Local Governments) : Synthesis Study

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2006

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Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia : Issues in Urban and Municipal Development

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank - 2006

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Infrastructure at the Crossroads : Lessons from 20 Years of World Bank Experience

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

Infrastructure at the Crossroads brings together lessons from the last two decades of World Bank engagement in infrastructure. It analyzes trends in the Bank's infrastructure lending, describes the evolution of the external environment and the Bank's own strategic priorities, and presents...

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Treasury Reference Model

Hashim, Ali; Allan, Bill - Economics Research, World Bank Group

The Treasury Reference Model (TRM) gives guidelines for the design of automated treasury systems for government aiming at a) authorities within government and their advisors who are engaged in planning and implementing such systems; and b) software designers and suppliers from the private sector...

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Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities--Now : Priorities for City Leaders

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

to attract private investors to create jobs in cities. This report also distills lessons from prototypes urbanization …, Indonesia), and mature (Brazil, Colombia, South Korea, Turkey) urbanization. These diagnostics under the World Bank …'s Urbanization Review program have engaged strategic counterparts, such as those in national ministries of finance and planning, in …

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Lessons for the Urban Century : Decentralized Infrastructure Finance in the World Bank

Annez, Patricia Clarke; Huet, Gwénaelle; Peterson, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This book takes a look at the past to gain insights for the future. Nearly 30 years ago, when the world urban population was only about half of the 3 billion that it is today, when most Less Developed Countries (LDCs) were primarily rural, and before the wave of decentralization of the 1980s and...

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The Quality of Life in Latin American Cities : Markets and Perception

Lora, Eduardo; Powell, Andrew; Praag, Bernard M.S. van; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group

This book suggests how that exploration should be undertaken, and how a monitoring system that has a solid conceptual basis and is both easy to operate and reasonable in cost can then be put into practice. Long the ideal of many scholars and observers of urban problems, such a system may now be...

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Improving Institutional Capability and Financial Viability to Sustain Transport : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support since 2002

Group, Independent Evaluation - Economics Research, World Bank Group

The services provided by investments in road networks, railways and transit systems, and ports for trade by air and water are important contributors to poverty alleviation and economic growth. Sustained transport investments can support poverty reduction directly, in terms of improving access...

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Cali, Colombia : Toward a City Development Strategy

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

Although many of the problems that Cali is experiencing - social and human capital deterioration, a declining economy, and institutional crisis - are a reflection of Colombia's complicated socioeconomic situation, the city has been hit harder by the crisis than other large cities, as confirmed...

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