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18549: Transit ITS Implementation Guidance: Part 1. Introduction to Transit ITS

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18548: Transit ITS Implementation Guidance: Part 3. Technical Studies Associated with ITS Management

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18547: The Growing Accountability Agenda in Tertiary Education: Progress or Mixed Blessing?

Jamil Salmi

18546: Shaping the Future: A Long-Term Perspective of People and Job Mobility in the Middle East and North Africa

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18545: Land Reform, Rural Development, and Poverty in the Philippines: Revisiting the Agenda

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18544: Zimbabwe Public Expenditure Notes: Managing Government Wage Bill for Sustained Recovery

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18532: Zimbabwe Public Expenditure Notes: Financial and Regulatory Challenges in Infrastructure Parastatals and Sectors

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18530: Philippines: Study on Agribusiness, Infrastructure, and Logistics for Growth in Mindanao

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18528: Republic of Rwanda: Technical Assistance for Public Expenditure Management

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18526: China: Shandong Culture Heritage Sector Review

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18524: Uruguay Policy Notes: Challenges and Opportunities 2010-2015

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18522: Urban Accessibility / Mobility Index Feasibility Stage Report

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18521: Argentina - Economic Memorandum for the Province of Buenos Aires: Key Public Policy Issues

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18519: Beyond the Sum of its Parts: Combining Financial Instruments for Impact and Efficiency

Richard Hosier, Nataliya Kulichenko, Aditi Maheshwari, Natsuko Toba and Xiaodong Wang

18516: Republic of Yemen Education Status Report: Challenges and Opportunities

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18508: Monitoring Climate Finance and ODA Issues Brief

Ari Huhtala, Stefano Curto and Philippe Ambrosi

18507: Liberia: Gender-Aware Programs and Women's Roles in Agricultural Value Chains

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18503: Ecuador: Diversification and Sustainable Growth in an Oil - Dependent Country

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18501: Cambodia: Review of Government Information and Communications Technologies Policies and Investments

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18488: Croatia: Diagnostic Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, Volume 1. Key Findings and Recommendations

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18487: Secondary School Madrasas in Bangladesh: Incidence, Quality, and Implications for Reform

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18486: Poland - Public Land and Property Asset Management in Warsaw: Strategic Opportunities

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18474: Croatia: Diagnostic Review of Consumer Protection and Financial Literacy, Volume 2. Comparison against Good Practices

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18441: Doing Business 2014 Economy Profile: Panama

World Bank and International Finance Corporation

18426: Transit ITS Implementation Guidance: Part 2. Transit ITS Projects in China--Lessons Learned

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18425: Urban Rail Development in China: Issues and Options

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18424: Developing the Public Transport Sector in China

Ken Gwilliam

18423: Monitoring Climate Finance and ODA

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18422: Afghanistan - Scoping Strategic Options for Development of the Kabul River Basin: A Multisectoral Decision Support System Approach

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18421: Making Global Value Chains Work for Development

Daria Taglioni and Deborah Winkler

18420: The Emerging Global Landscape of Mobile Microinsurance

Camilo Tellez and Peter Zetterli

18419: Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion

Edlira Dashi, Estelle Lahaye and Ralitsa Rizvanolli

18418: Bitcoin Versus Electronic Money

Sarah Rotman

18417: Designing Customer-Centric Branchless Banking Offerings

Claudia Vonderohe McKay and Yanina Ester Seltzer

18416: Using National Education Management Information Systems to Make Local Service Improvements: The Case of Pakistan

Ritu Nayyar-Stone

18414: Tracking Access to Nonsolid Fuel for Cooking

Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee, Elisa Portale, Heather Adair-Rohani and Sophie Bonjour

18413: Tracking Access to Electricity

Sudeshna Ghosh Banerjee and Elisa Portale

18412: Implementing Onshore Wind Power Projects

Gabriela Elizondo Azuela and Rafael Ben

18411: Understanding the Differences between Cookstoves

Koffi Ekouevi, Kate Kennedy Freeman and Ruchi Soni

18410: Designing Credit Lines for Energy Efficiency

Ashok Sarkar, Jonathan Sinton and Joeri de Wit

18406: Strategic Environmental Assessment: Improving Water Resources Governance and Decision Making - Case Studies

Rafik Hirji and Richard Davis

18402: Vulnerability to Oil Price Increases: A Decomposition Analysis of 161 Countries

Robert Bacon and Masami Kojima

18401: Changes in End-User Petroleum Product Prices: A Comparison of 48 Countries

Masami Kojima

18400: Extractive Industries Value Chain: A Comprehensive Integrated Approach to Developing Extractive Industries

Eleodoro Mayorga Alba

18399: Mineral Rights Cadastre: Promoting Transparent Access to Mineral Resources (Cadastres miniers: Promotion d’un accès transparent aux ressources minérales)

Enrique Ortega Girones, Alexandra Pugachevsky and Gotthard Walser

18398: Emerging Players in Global Mining

David Humphreys

18397: Changing Patterns of Household Expenditures on Energy: A Case Study of Indonesia and Pakistan

Robert Bacon, Soma Bhattacharya and Masami Kojima

18396: A Critical Review of the Literature on Structural Adjustment and the Environment

Anna Gueorguieva and Katherine Bolt

18395: A Review of the Valuation of Environmental Costs and Benefits in World Bank Projects

Patricia Silva and Stefano Pagiola

18394: Participatory Conservation for Protected Areas: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Sources (1996-2001)

Nancy Diamond, Elisabeth Nkrumah and Alan Isaac

18393: Paying for Biodiversity Conservation Services in Agricultural Landscapes

Stefano Pagiola, Paola Agostini, José Gobbi, Cees de Haan, Muhammad Ibrahim, Enrique Murgueitio, Elías Ramírez, Mauricio Rosales and Juan Pablo Ruíz

18392: Models for Recognizing Indigenous Land Rights in Latin America

Roque Roldán Ortega

18391: Assessing the Economic Value of Ecosystem Conservation

Stefano Pagiola, Konrad von Ritter and Joshua Bishop

18390: Poverty Reduction and the Millennium Development Goal on Environmental Sustainability: Opportunities for Alignment

Jan Bojö and Rama Chandra Reddy

18389: National and Regional Legislation for Promotion and Support to the Prevention, Control, and Eradication of Invasive Species

Tomme Rosanne Young

18388: The Aid Trade: International Assistance as Pathways for the Introduction of Invasive Alien Species

Sean T. Murphy and Oliver D. Cheesman

18387: Environment in 2005 Country Assistance Strategies

Sunanda Kishore

18386: Financial Surety: Guidelines for the Implementation of Financial Surety for Mine Closure

Meredith Sassoon

18385: Mainstreaming Environment in the Implementation of PRSPs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sunanda Kishore

18384: Strengthening Policy Dialogue on Environment: Learning from Five Years of Country Environmental Analysis

Poonam Pillai

18383: Transitioning to Climate Resilient Development: Perspectives from Communities in Peru

Frank Sperling, Corinne Validivia, Roberto Quiroz, Roberto Valdivia, Lenkiza Angulo, Anton Seimon and Ian Noble

18382: Climate Change and Sea Level Rise: A Review of the Scientific Evidence

Susmita Dasgupta and Craig Meisner

18381: Environmental Flows in Water Resources Policies, Plans, and Projects: Case Studies

Rafik Hirji and Richard Davis

18380: Mainstreaming Environment and Climate Change in the Implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategies

Gonzalo Griebenow and Sunanda Kishore

18379: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Climate Change: The Economic Problem

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18376: The State of Social Safety Nets 2014

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18375: Early Childhood Development and Education in China: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Improving Future Competitiveness

Kin Bing Wu

18374: China: Water Pricing and Water User Associations Sustainability

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18373: Nicaragua: Energy Sector Policy Note, Executive Summary

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18372: Mortgage Liquidity Facilities

Olivier Hassler and Simon Walley

18371: Yemen: Towards Deeper Trade Integration

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18370: ICT Indicators and Implications for Methods for Assessing Socioeconomic Impact of ICT

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18369: Carbon Livelihoods: Social Opportunities and Risks of Carbon Finance

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18368: Gabon Public Expenditure Review: Better Management of Public Finance to Achieve Millennium Development Goals

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18367: Hospital Sector Reform in Uzbekistan: A Policy Note

Loraine Hawkins

18366: A Guide for Local Benefit Sharing in Hydropower Projects

Chaogang Wang

18365: Greenhouse Gas Analysis at the World Bank (Asociacion entre el Caribe y Centro América para Aseguramiento Contra Riesgo Catastrófico: agrupación de riesgos para protegerse contra catástrofes generadas por eventos naturales)

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18364: Feedback Matters: Designing Effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms for Bank-Financed Projects, Part 2. The Practice of Grievance Redress

David Post and Sanjay Agarwal

18363: Road for Cultural Heritage: Policy Note on Cultural Heritage and Infrastructure Development in Timor-Leste

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18362: The Transition from Underpricing Residential Electricity in Bangladesh: Fiscal and Distributional Impacts

Faizuddin Ahmed, Chris Trimble and Nobuo Yoshida

18333: Risks and Opportunities of Participation in Global Value Chains

Gary Gereffi and Xubei Luo

18327: What Drives the Volatility of Firm Level Productivity in China?

Xubei Luo and Nong Zhu

18318: Mitigating Climate Change through Restoration and Management of Coastal Wetlands and Near-shore Marine Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities

Stephen Crooks, Dorothée Herr, Jerker Tamelander, Dan Laffoley and Justin Vandever

18317: Black Carbon and Climate Change: Considerations for International Development Agencies

Michael Levitsky

18315: The Status and Impact of Bio Safety Regulation in Developing Economies Since Ratification of the Cartagena Protocol

Morven McLean, Mary-Ellen Foley and Eija Pehu

18309: Public Consultation in Environmental Assessments 1997-2000: Findings from the Third Environmental Assessment Review

Nightingale Rukuba-Ngaiza, Rusdian Lubis, Michelle Cullen, Zongmin Li and Christopher Mausolff

18307: Poverty Reduction Strategies and Environment: A Review of 40 Interim and Full Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs)

Jan Bojo and Rama Chandra Reddy

18305: Biological Resource Management: Integrating Biodiversity Concerns in Rural Development Projects and Programs

Robin Grimble and Martyn Laidlaw

18304: Beating the Resource Curse: The Case of Botswana

Moortaza Jiwanji and Maria Sarraf

18303: Environmental Costs of Fossil Fuels: A Rapid Assessment Method with Application to Six Cities

Kseniya Lvovsky, Gordon Hughes, David Maddison, Bart Ostro and David Pearce

18302: Country Assistance Strategies and the Environment

Priya Shyamsundar, Kirk Hamilton, Lisa Segnestam, Maria Sarraf and S. Frankhauser

18301: Genuine Saving as a Sustainability Indicator

Kirk Hamilton

18300: A Decade of Environment Management in Chile

Ina-Marlene Ruthenberg

18299: Tourism and the Environment in the Caribbean: An Economic Framework

John Dixon, Kirk Hamilton, Stefano Pagiola and Lisa Segnestam

18298: Climate Information and Forecasting for Development: Lessons from the 1997/98 El Nino

Maarten K. Van Aalst, Sam Fankhauser, Sally M. Kane and Kelly Sponberg

18297: Hunting of Wildlife in Tropical Forests: Implications for Biodiversity and Forest Peoples

Elizabeth L. Bennett and John G. Robinson

18296: Biodiversity Conservation in the Context of Tropical Forest Management

Francis E. Putz, Kent H. Redford, John G. Robinson, Robert Fimbel and Geoffrey M. Blate

18295: Social and Environmental Assessment to Promote Sustainability: An Informal View from the World Bank

Robert Goodland

18294: Gender-Sensitive Approaches for the Extractive Industry in Peru: Improving the Impact on Women in Poverty and Their Families - Guide for Improving Practice

Bernie Ward, John Strongman, Adriana Eftimie and Katherine Heller

18293: The Role of Liquefied Petroleum Gas in Reducing Energy Poverty

Masami Kojima