This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: Philippines, World Bank sign US$600m package. Government of Philippines, WB identify actions to improve project performance....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23221Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
Private participation in the electricity sector - recent trends, by Ada Karina Izaguirre. World Bank guarantees for oil and gas projects, by Scott Sinclair. Bidding for concessions - how contract design...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Rio street artist shows the brutality of poverty, by Kevin Rafferty; basic economics to solve parking problem; Africa day, victim of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57001Date: December 3, 1998Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna
Feeding megacities : a worldwide viewpoint. A tale of two cities : feeding Beijing and Delhi. Nobody need starve. Business takes a new look at inner cities. Farming inside and around cities. The global...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18336Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Tinker, Irene ;
Chatterjee, Patralekha ;
Sen, Amarty
This issue focuses on the experience of private sector involvement in Global Environment Facility (GEF) projects from Batangas Bay in the Philippines. The Batangas Bay Demonstration Project was part of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21208Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
This Note outlines the scope of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CD) and indicates how the obligations and commitments of the country parties under the CCD could provide golden opportunities for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 37268Date: November 1, 1998Author:
Hassan, Hassan M. ;
English,John C. ;
Riethmacher, Gunter W. ;
Eskikuri, Enos E.
Renewable energy is a feasible technological option in sustainable energy. Rusting monuments to past failures attest that his "autonomous" technology must operate within a frame of sustainable energy development...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26344Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Barnes, Douglas ;
Jechoutek, Karl ;
Young, Andrew
Some of the headings included in this issue of the Quality Assurance Group are: Africa and MNA Lead Portfolio Improvement - Annual Reports on Portfolio Performance (ARPP) results; Quality of Bank supervision...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18466Date: October 31, 1998
"We did not neglect institutional development": interview with World Bank's ECA Chief Economist Marcelo Selowsky, by Richard Hirschler. The nature of Russia's economic castrophe - an alternative diagnosis,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18695Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Hirschler,Richard ;
Nekipelov, Alexandr ;
Vlachoutsicos, Charalambos ;
Batra, Rajeev ;
Chi Fulin ;
Saywell, Trish ;
Schuler, Kurt ;
Davies, Peter ;
Hoge,Robert K. S. ;
Frick,Miroslav ;
Scott, Evan ;
Popov, Vladimir ;
Kopatsy, Sandor ;
Matolcsy, Gyorgy ;
Menshikov, Stanislav ;
Ickes, Barry W. ;
Mueller, Katharina
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: better aid will give new life to 80m a year by Kevin Rafferty; Hollywood comes to the World Bank, by Nazanine Atabaki and Lynn Thornton;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57000Date: October 26, 1998Author:
Atabaki,Nazanine ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Thornton, Lynn
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: Yuuki tells the world trees are cool; fasten your seatbelts, by Kevin Rafferty; Kirmani: engineer of a better world; Woicke relishes...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56999Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Cullen,Timothy W. B. ;
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Hovde, Kate ;
Parchuc De Jeria Figueroa,Ana Maria ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Sopher,Jamil
This newsletter examines the work of the World Bank regarding the privatization of state-owned enterprises in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, as well as the developing world as a whole...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18561Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Mahmood, Syed A.
This note evaluates the potential, and limitations of contracting out as an opportunity for public sector development. The paper examines the progress achieved by transition economies in maintaining appropriate...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18560Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Keefer,Philip E.
The East Asian financial crisis - fallout for private power projects, by R. David Gray and John Schuster. Contingent liabilities for infrastructure projects - implementing a risk management framework for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21277Date: September 30, 1998Author:
GRAY, R. DAVID ;
Schuster,John ;
Lewis, Christopher ;
Mody,Ashoka ;
Haarmeyer, David ;
Law,Peter L. ;
De Franco,Nelson ;
O'Leary,Donal T. ;
Charpentier,Jean-Pierre ;
Minogue,Diane Catherine ;
Shirley,Mary M. ;
Da Silva,Gisele F. ;
Tynan,Nicola Caroline ;
Sayin Taylor,Yesim
Rome celebrates millennium, by Christian Jubilee. US-Mexico identities: culture at the border. Asia pacific discussion: heritage network on-line. Geographic Information System: historical town analyses....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19256Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Bergen,Margaret ;
Juiblee, Christian ;
Landry,Charles ;
Serageldin,M. Ismail ;
Ebbe,Katrinka ;
Eirinberg, Keith W. ;
Afshar, Mahasti ;
Crosby, ToddVincent ;
Hale, Jonathan ;
Khoo,Salma Nasution
Cities in developing countries are becoming increasingly, unhealthy places to live, with local governments lacking the capacity to collect, and dispose of municipal sewage, and solid waste, or control...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22674Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Carter,Brandon Enrique
Identification of Land Quality Indicators (LQIs) is a key requirement of sustainable land management. They are required to assess, monitor, and evaluate changes in the quality of land resources and environmental...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21131Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Damanski, Julian
This is a newsletter of the World Bank country office Manila. This issue features: World Bank backs government's pro-poor agenda. Helping the Philippines respond to the crisis. Meet the Bank's new staff:...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23220Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Gonzales,Leonora Aquino
The note provides an overview of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), following the first conference of parties in Rome, highlights the commitments of affected countries that ratified the Convention,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 22343Date: August 31, 1998
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