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10668: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Guinea-Bissau Country Report

Osei Agyeman Tutu

10667: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Mauritania Country Report

Osei Agyeman Tutu

10666: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Libya Country Report

Amr Hamdy

10665: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Sao Tome and Príncipe Country Report

Babacar Fall

10664: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Mali Country Report

Babacar Fall

10663: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Morocco Country Report

Amr Hamdy

10662: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Nigeria Country Report

Osei Tutu Agyeman

10661: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Niger Country Report

Osei Tutu Agyeman

10660: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Sudan Country Report

Amr Hamdy

10659: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: South Africa Country Report

Shafika Isaacs

10658: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Somalia Country Report

Harry Hare

10657: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Sierra Leone Country Report

Kofi Mangesi

10656: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Tunisia Country Report

Amr Hamdy

10655: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Uganda Country Report

Glen Farrell

10654: "Show Me the Money!" Quantifying the Impact of Regulatory Simplification Projects

Sanda Liepina, Andrea Dall'Olio and Sanwaree Sethi

10653: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Equatorial Guinea Country Report

Babacar Fall

10652: Communication as a Tool in Policy Reform: Getting the Message Through in Egypt

Thomas Moullier and Sherif Hamdy

10651: Shifting the Focus to "Quality at Exit" - An Effective Approach to Improving the Business Environment at the Subnational Level

Le Duy Binh and Thomas Finkel

10650: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Senegal Country Report

Babacar Fall

10649: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Seychelles Country Report

Shafika Isaacs

10648: Survey of ICT and Education in Africa: Tanzania Country Report

Harry Hare

10647: Private Participation in Infrastructure in Europe and Central Asia: A Look at Recent Trends

Maria Vagliasindi and Ada Karina Izaguirre

10646: A Juicy Story - Using the Pull Factor to Build an Agricultural Supply Chain

Ebbe Johnson

10645: What it Takes to Lower Regulatory Risk in Infrastructure Industries: An Assessment and Benchmarking of Brazilian Regulators

Paulo Correa

10644: Designing and Using Public-Private Partnership Units in Infrastructure: Lessons from Case Studies Around the World

Apurva Sanghi, Alex Sundakov and Denzel Hankinson

10643: When You Sweep the Stairs, You Always Start from the Top

Sebastian Molineus

10642: Eliminating Minimum Capital Requirement and Facilitating Business Start-Up in Saudi Arabia

Dr. Awwad Al-Awwad

10641: Boosting Trade in Egypt

Rachid Mohammed Rachid

10640: Weaving Peace and Equality in Conflict: The Handloom Weaving Enhancement Project of the Women of Dayawan, Marawi City

Lourdes Marina P. Padilla

10639: Managing Municipal Solid Waste in Latin America and the Caribbean: Integrating the Private Sector, Harnessing Incentives

Daniel Hoornweg and Natalie Giannelli

10638: What (Business) Women Want - Employing Surveys to Expand Our Knowledge About the State of Female Entrepreneurship in MENA Region

Carmen Niethammer and Hela Gharbi

10637: Gender Equity Promotion in the Private Sector in Mexico: The Development of a Successful Model

Maria Castro Elena

10636: Reviving the Handicraft Sector in Bali: Reviving the Handicraft Sector in Bali

Carl Dagenhart

10635: Turning Pro: Raising the Level of Professionalism in Ukraine's Leasing Industry

Ernst Mehrengs and Sarah Ockman

10634: Great Expectations but Disappointing Results: What Went Wrong with the Cambodia Institute of Banking?

Margarete O. Biallas

10633: Taking on the Bailiff Monopoly in Poland

Krzysztof Józefowicz

10632: How Efficiently is Capital Created? Evidence from Property Registration Reform in Egypt

Jamal Haidar

10631: “To Permit or Not to Permit” — Tools for Reforming Permits and Licensing Systems

Sanjar Ibragimov and Bobir Taymetov

10630: Setback or Blessing in Disguise? Implementing Management Information Systems in Partner Banks and Leasing Companies

Umedjan Umarov and Patrick Luternauer

10629: One-Stop Shopping in Portugal

Maria Manuel Leitão Marques

10628: Modernizing Italy's Bankruptcy Law

Michele Vietti

10627: Ghana - Establishment of the Commercial Court

Sandra Cofie

10626: Reforming the Labor Administration in Bhutan

Pema Wangda

10625: Knowledge Map: School-Level Issues

World Bank

10624: Knowledge Map: Current Projects and Practices

World Bank

10623: Knowledge Map: Monitoring and Evaluation

World Bank

10622: Electronic Case Management and Mediation - Drastic Improvement for the Courts in Tonga

Anthony D. Ford

10621: Evaluation of World Bank Support for Public Sector Reform

Vinod Thomas

10620: India Leads Developing Nations in Private Sector Investment: But the Region Needs More Investment to Meet Demands

Clive Harris

10619: Ethiopia: Country Assistance Evaluation, 1998-2006

Vinod Thomas

10618: Public Service Announcements on TV: An Effective Tool for Reaching Entrepreneurs in Tajikistan

Andrea Dall'Olio and Teresa Ha

10617: Frontier Finance - Microfinance as a Prudent First Intervention in Post-Conflict Countries

Julie Earne, John Gutin and Jumoke Jagun

10616: Exporting by Mail - An Innovative Trade Facilitation Tool

J. Luis Guasch

10615: A Conflict’s Impact on Project Goals and Reputation Risk: Lessons from Kosovo Privatization Program

Karl Bach

10614: Trading Up: How Tunisia Used ICT to Facilitate Trade

Hamid Alavi

10613: Stakeholder Engagement in Post-Conflict Countries: The Liberian Experience

Nana Yaa Ofori- Atta

10612: Recent Trends in Private Activity in Infrastructure: What the Shift Away from Risk Means for Policy

Clemencia Torres de Mästle and Ada Karina Izaguirre

10611: Does the Private Sector Deliver on its Promises? Evidence from a Global Study in Water and Electricity

Katharina Gassner, Alexander Popov and Nataliya Pushak

10610: Protecting Electricity Retailers Against Price Volatility: The Electricity Tariff Equalization Fund in New South Wales

Michel Kerf and Eric Groom

10609: Asking the Right Questions: Johannesburg Completes a Groundbreaking Municipal Bond Issue

Jason Ngobeni

10608: Are Brownfield Concessions Poised for a Comeback? New Signs of Life After a Decade in Decline

James Leigland

10607: Worldwide Trends in Private Participation in Roads: Growing Activity, Growing Government Support

Cesar Queiroz and Ada Karina Izaguirre

10606: “Dividing the Wheat from the Chaff”: How to Get at the True Picture of Entrepreneurship Behind Misleading Statistics – Lessons from Ukraine’s Example

Yuriy Kuzmyn and Florentin Blanc

10605: The Role of Developing Country Firms in Infrastructure: New Data Confirm the Emergence of a New Class of Investors

Michael Schur, Stephan von Klaudy, Nataliya Pushak, Apurva Sanghi and Georgina Dellacha

10604: A Demand-Driven Design for Irrigation in Egypt: Minimizing Risks for Both Farmers and Private Investors

Safwat Abdel-Dayem and Aldo Baietti

10603: Egypt - Country Assistance Evaluation

Vinod Thomas

10602: Georgia Country Assistance Evaluation, 1993-2007

World Bank

10601: Independent Evaluation of IFC’s Development Results 2008: IFC’s Additionality in Supporting Private Sector Development

World Bank

10600: Support Emergence of Home-Grown Policies by Putting Local Partners in the Drafting Seat

Martin Norman

10599: Unlocking Land Values to Finance Urban Infrastructure: Land-Based Financing Options for Cities

George E. Peterson

10598: Enhancing the Creditworthiness of Municipal Bonds: Innovations from Mexico

James Leigland and Cledan Mandri-Perrott

10597: Taking a Holistic Approach to Planning and Developing Hydropower: Lessons from Two River Basin Case Studies in India

Michael Haney and Judith Plummer

10596: Supporting Environmental Sustainability: An Evaluation of World Bank Group Experience, 1990-2007

World Bank

10595: An Evaluation of Bank Support for Decentralization in Client Countries

World Bank

10594: Climate Change and the World Bank Group - Phase I: An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms

World Bank

10593: IFC in Indonesia: An Independent Country Impact Review

World Bank

10592: Nigeria - Country Assistance Evaluation

World Bank

10591: Working Together to Move Client Relationships from Advice to Partnership in Sustainable Energy Finance

William Beloe

10590: The World Bank’s Economic and Sector Work and Technical Assistance, FY00-06

World Bank

10589: Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2008: Shared Global Challenges

World Bank

10588: IFC in Nigeria: An Independent Country Impact Review

World Bank

10587: China's Emerging Role in Africa: Part of the Changing Landscape of Infrastructure Finance

William Butterfield, Vivien Foster, Chuan Chen and Nataliya Pushak

10586: The Informal recycling Sector in Developing Countries: Organizing Waste Pickers to Enhance their Impact

Martin Medina

10585: The Changing Landscape of Infrastructure Finance in Africa: Nontraditional Sources Take on a Growing Role

Vivien Foster

10584: Pay Less, Get More - “Insurance Scheme” as a Sustainable Business Approach to Capacity Building Services

Juan Carlos Fernandez

10583: Biennial Report on Operations Evaluation in IFC 2008: Enhancing Monitoring and Evaluation for Better Results

World Bank

10582: Why Use an NGO Partner for Your Public Awareness Campaign Instead of a PR Agency? Experience of the Recycling Linkages Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Denis Obarcanin

10581: Risk Management: So Critical, yet So Elusive

Chris Razook

10580: Changing Programs to Fit New Strategies: Some Lessons from Ukraine

David Lawrence

10579: Well-Structured Agribusiness Linkages Projects Lead to Happy Clients and a Developed Sector

Viktoryia Menkova and Sanwaree Sethi

10578: Knowledge Map: Impact of ICTs on Learning and Achievement

World Bank

10577: Financing the Boom in Public-Private Partnerships in Indian Infrastructure: Trends and Policy Implications

Clive Harris and Sri Tadimalla Kumar

10576: Lessons Learned from Past Financial Crises: Korea 1998-2000 - Investing Equity/Quasi-Equity with Agility in Financial Institutions

Jean-Marie Masse

10575: How International Experience Helped the Czech Republic Reform Construction Permits

Milostav Pavlik

10574: Review of IDA Internal Controls: An Evaluation of Management’s Assessment and the IAD Review

World Bank

10573: Improving Effectiveness and Outcomes for the Poor in Health, Nutrition, and Population

World Bank

10572: Linking Business Tax Reform with Governance: How to Measure Success

Max Everest-Phillips and Richard Sandall

10571: Small Business Taxation: Reform to Encourage Formality and Firm Growth

Jan Loeprick

10570: Mission Difficult…but Not Impossible Making Public-Private Partnerships Work for the Poor

Robert Taylor

10569: What Drives Private Sector Exit from Infrastructure? Economic Crises and Other Factors in the Cancellation of Private Infrastructure Projects in Developing Countries

Clive Harris and Kumar V. Pratap