Roundup : oil : into the Caspian sea, and Asia : pieces of the puzzle; by Linda McCormick. Dealing with the devil - the hell of corruption; by Philip Segal. Just what the Doctor ordered - prescriptions...
The impact of IPPs in developing countries - out of crisis and into the future, by Yves Albouy and Reda Bousba. International power trade - the Nordic power tool, by Lennart Carlsson. Electricity reform...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19657Date: March 31, 1999Author:
Albouy, Yves ;
Bousba, Reda ;
Carlsson, Lennart ;
Love
Despite improvements in health, nutrition, and other factors important to the human condition, by the year 2025 as many as 1,000 million people of a projected 8,000 million could suffer from malnutrition....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20869Date: March 31, 1999Author:
Mccalla,Alexander F.
Over the last ten years, the average cost and construction time of greenfield fossil fuel-fired power plants has been reduced by approximately 50, even as their performance has improved. This is the result...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 30524Date: March 1, 1999Author:
O'Leary,Donal T. ;
Paul, Ingo ;
Taud, Robert
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: resolve first adjudicate last; building a kinder, gentler culture through teamwork, by Jamil Sopher; improving air quality and urban...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57003Date: March 1, 1999Author:
Casas,Cynthia ;
Delgadillo,Cynthia Raquel ;
George,Morallina Fanwar ;
Frick,Helen Louise ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Sopher,Jamil
Theory and practice -- cross-border leasing. Small business -- the Maisky Chai Bakery. Leasing in the regions -- Ulyanovsk. The leasing project -- events, news in the group. News -- press digest. Taxation...
Council to discuss sustainability strategy. Global forestry workshop: input for Bank's strategy. UNEP governing Council to feature governance. Sector boards' quality assurance plans due February 5. Strategic...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23121Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Dixon, John ;
Gregory, Peter ;
Midgley, Peter ;
Sherma
This note discusses the issues faced in introducing new gas fired power generation plants into Brazil's hydropower dominated system. Ordinarily, power project developers seek to operate their plants at...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26349Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Garcia,Hernan G. ;
Law,Peter L.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently completed an evaluation of "Experience with Conservation Trust Funds." The evaluation sought to determine the extent to which potential advantages of trust...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21217Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
Firm performance, conflict prevention, capital flight - World Bank researchers on new territories: interview with Paul Collier and David Dollar, by Richard Hirschler. Time to rethink privatization in transition...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19031Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Bai, David D ;
Braunwieser,Birgit ;
Daniel, Pradhan ;
Enthoven,Adolf J. H. ;
Hirschler,Richard ;
Intriligator, Michael D ;
Jed, ChiFulin ;
Krastev, Ivan Kaufmann ;
Li, Friedman ;
Nellis,John R. ;
Paterson, Robert ;
Petkov, Boris ;
Randi, Gordon ;
Roger H, Chong-en ;
Sanjay, Ryterman ;
Shelley, Louise I ;
Willhelm, Kathy
Porto Alegre: where the public controls the purse strings, by Lucy Conger. Home ownership: the new Chinese Dream, by Ted Plafker. Riches in rags, by Gabriela Boyer. The city economy. The devastation for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20843Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Conger,Lucy ;
Plafker, Ted ;
Boyer,M. Gabriela ;
Boyle, Robin ;
Landry,Charles ;
Stuart,Patrick Lindsay ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Juhel, Mark ;
Pollock, Eric ;
Drabrowski, Andrea ;
Raboh,Hossam Abd ;
Auclair,Christine ;
Lebo,Jerry A. ;
Bergen,Margaret
FY2000 Strategic Forum to chart Bank's direction. Post-conflict reconstruction brainstorming. Netherlands pledges $14.5 million for environment. Safeguard policies compliance. NGOs call for forest policy...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23120Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Briscoe,John ;
Foley,Mary-Ellen ;
Hassan, Hassan ;
Kiernan, Michael ;
Poore,Kerri Lynne ;
Rapp,Kennan W. ;
Rosenthal,Shane J. ;
Sherman,Mariam J. ;
Whitten, Tony
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently completed an evaluation of "Experience with Conservation Trust Funds." The evaluation sought to determine the extent to which potential advantages of trust...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21216Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
Under reconstruction - an Asian journal; by Rob Wright. The Net effect on the nation state; by Charles J. Doyle, Glover T. Ferguson and Hugh F. Morris. The new Executive Vice President of IFC - Peter Woicke;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23475Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Wright, Rob ;
Alwis, Chitra [editors] ;
Doyle, Charl
The Pilot Program represents a new and so far unique model of international partnership. Together, the Brazilian government, the Bank, and the donors are seeking to make this innovative partnership work....
In the wake of Hurricane Mitch. International city design competition. Renaissance art fuels commerce. Crime drives Johannesburg stock exchange out. Neighborhood park in Hamburg. Rating Russia. Letters...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21717Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Graef, Roger ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Kalbermatten,John M. ;
Cowen, Penelope J. Brook ;
Vines, Stephen ;
Johnson,Curtis Eugene
Some of the headings included in this newsletter of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) news are: MIGA to play important role in Asian growth and recovery program: President Clinton; council...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63023Date: January 1, 1999
Two workshops were sponsored by the Demonstration Projects in October-November 1998 to identify lessons learned from projects involving agroforestry systems and recuperation of degraded lands. Both workshops...
In this issue: International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) home page on the web. Disputes before the Centre. New designations to the ICSID Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46563Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Parra,Antonio R.
Natural gas reservoirs are plentiful around the world, but many of them currently seem too small, or too remote from sizable population centers, to be developed economically. Furthermore, gas associated...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26345Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Kojima,Masami
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