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What a Railway in Laos Can Tell Us about China’s Belt and Road
Scott Morris
May 17, 2019
The Chinese-financed effort to build a national railway through Laos is a quintessential project of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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The Kunming-Vientiane Railway: The Economic, Procurement, Labor, and Safeguards Dimensions of a Chinese Belt and Road Project
Scott Morris
May 17, 2019
The Kunming-Vientiane railway is an anchor investment of the Chinese government’s Belt and Road initiative. This case study will assess the rail project along four dimensions: economic implications; procurement arrangements; labor; and environmental and social safeguards. In each of these area...
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Enhancing Domestic Resource Mobilization: What are the Real Obstacles?
Sanjeev Gupta
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Mark Plant
April 30, 2019
At the Center for Global Development, we recently initiated a project to develop more effective and equitable strategies for domestic resource mobilization in low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The impetus for the project is the Addis Ababa Action Agenda for financing d...
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Reforming World Bank Aid to the Private Sector for Greater Competition and Transparency
Charles Kenny
April 15, 2019
Chairwoman of the US House Committee on Financial Services Maxine Waters' recent intervention provides an opportunity for the Bank Group to rethink the Private Sector Window to better align with the International Finance Corporation’s 3.0 reform process, which was designed to inc...