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  1. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Egypt

    This document builds upon several recent
    studies and reports carried out in the 2006-2007 period. The
    first note, entitled analysis of housing supply mechanisms
    (World Bank), analyzes the situation of housing supply in
    urban areas in Egypt, including the study of existing formal
    and informal mechanisms for the delivery of urban housing,
    the institutions responsible for supply and regulation, the
    characteristics of the formal and informal stock, and the

  2. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Sudan

    This policy note was prepared in
    response to a request from the Government of Southern Sudan
    (GoSS) for World Bank assistance in developing legislative
    and institutional policies and strategies that will take
    advantage of the potential of the region's forest
    resources to contribute to poverty alleviation, food
    security, sustainable agriculture, economic growth, and to
    protection of forest-related environmental services such as

  3. Library Resource
    December, 2012
    South Sudan, Sudan

    The work described in this report is a
    first step to addressing the longer-term issues related to
    the competitiveness of South Sudan's farmers in a
    regional context. It focuses on the options for increasing
    the amount and value of agricultural production in the crop
    sector, the potential contribution of rural roads to
    increasing crop production and how to sequence and
    prioritize rural road investments in a way that maximizes

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2013
    Algeria

    This staff sector assessment note
    accompanies the recently completed national environmental
    action plan for sustainable development (NEAP-SD), which, as
    an output of the Industrial Pollution Control Project in
    Algeria, focused on charting a new course for environmental
    management in the country, based on an objective assessment
    of past policy, and institutional failures, on a new
    consensus on the need for mainstreaming the environment into

  5. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    South Sudan, Sudan

    This study responds to the need for
    information and analysis on the urban sector in South Sudan,
    to inform the Bank's policy dialogue with the
    Government of the Republic of South Sudan (GoSS) on urban
    and local government issues, and to inform the design of
    future Bank assistance. The first phase of this analytical
    exercise, which is the focus of this report, develops an
    overview of the urban landscape. A second phase of this

  6. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Egypt

    The objective of this paper is to
    present a succinct and up-to-date review of the urban sector
    in Egypt, with a focus on issues for which there is new
    insight or emerging government interest. The two main themes
    of the report are the challenges facing the urban sector and
    the policy implications at various levels of government.
    Some of the reports mains findings are: urbanization in
    Egypt takes on forms and processes which are not well

  7. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Egypt

    The objective of this study, requested
    by the Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development,
    is to assist the government of Egypt in: formulating a
    coherent national affordable housing strategy which puts in
    place an effective institutional and regulatory framework
    that creates the necessary conditions for an efficiently
    functioning housing market, devises the incentive structure
    needed to promote increased private sector participation in

  8. Library Resource
    March, 2013
    Sudan

    East Sudan has received a continuous
    influx of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees
    over the last forty years. Mass influxes were witnessed
    during years when the region experienced natural
    catastrophes as droughts and floods, or an escalation of
    tensions and conflict in neighboring countries, mainly
    Eritrea and Ethiopia. Presently there is still a steady but
    smaller in numbers influx of refugees, mostly from Eritrea,

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2011
    Western Asia, Northern Africa

    In this paper the author analyze the link between spatial agglomeration, spatial disparities and political governance with an emphasis on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The agglomeration index and the urban-rural consumption ratio are used respectively as a measurement of spatial agglomeration and spatial disparities. The author distinguishes two aspects of political governance: political rights and political stability.

  10. Library Resource
    June, 2014
    Morocco

    This economy profile presents the Doing
    Business indicators for Morocco. In a series of annual
    reports, Doing Business assesses regulations affecting
    domestic firms in 189 economies and ranks the economies in
    10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a
    business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders.
    This year's report data cover regulations measured from
    June 2012 through May 2013. The report is the 11th edition

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