The development objective of the Eastern Türkiye Middle Corridor Railway Development Project for Türkiye is to improve the rail connectivity of eastern Türkiye along the Divrigi-Kars-Georgia border railway...
This study attempts to relate the policy and good practice literature on urban and suburban passenger rail, much of which originates from high- or middle-income countries to the context of developing cities...
The development objective of the Second Tanzania Intermodal and Rail Development Project for Tanzania is to improve safety, climate resilience, and operational efficiency of the railway along the Dar es...
Railways are a low carbon way to access opportunities and move goods to markets. To realizethe benefits of railways in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs), an estimated USD 25-80billion of investment...
Railways play an important role in the transportation systems of many developing countries. Railways stations are a key but often neglected part of this railway service. Many countries are considering...
As a green mode of transportation, railways have an important role to play in decarbonizing transport through shifting transport from more polluting modes of transport such as road and air. Railways can...
Infrastructure is critical to economic development. When infrastructure companies are owned and operated by the government, however, they create significant sources of fiscal risk. These fiscal risks can...
This paper examines the performance of infrastructure companies owned by the state, using the newly created World Bank Database of Infrastructure State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). The data cover 19 countries...
Ratings for the HaJia Railway Project for China were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the Bank performance was satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality was modest. Some lessons learned...
Existing literature on the relationship between infrastructure and economic growth is inconclusive. This study evaluates the contributions to economic growth of three main categories of infrastructure—transport...