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
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.
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
The Indonesian crisis and its impact on the forestry sector, by Jeffrey A. Sayer. Message from the chairman, by Ismail Serageldin. Dr. Nelson receives MacArthur's Genius Award. CGIAR honors the Year of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23550Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Sayer, Jeffrey A. ;
Serageldin, Ismail ;
Reeves, Tim
Underneath the formal economy: why are Russian enterprises not restructuring?, by Clifford Gaddy & Barry W. Ickes. The virtual economy : a closer look, by Edwin G. Dolan. The summer the ruble collapsed...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18851Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Hirschler,Richard ;
Gaddy,Clifford ;
Ickes, Barry W. ;
Dolan, Edwin G. ;
Davies, Peter ;
Rutkowski,Michal J. ;
Cord, Richard A.
This Energy and Mining newsletter includes the following articles: Excellence in project quality at entry; Europe Central Asia (ECA) energy strategy forum with external participants; Independent power...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18395Date: August 28, 1998
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: can your children act, talk, and swing through trees? Sharing the burdens, by Kevin Rafferty; board consensus boosts capital and International...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56997Date: August 27, 1998Author:
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Marc,Alexandre ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shakow,Alexander ;
Shen,Anna
Emissions from fossil fuel combustion, especially coal combustion, are major contributors to air pollution. Concentrations of suspended particles and sulfur dioxide (SO2) in the air of many cities in developing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26348Date: August 1, 1998Author:
Takahashi,Masaki
The shadow economy (Dana Wickware). Microentrepreneurs: the unacknowledged borrowers (Lucy Conger). A conversation with Elaben Bhatt (Margaret Bergen and Paralekha Chatterjee). Waste not, want not (Michael...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18316Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Wickware, Dana ;
Conger,Lucy ;
Bergen,Margaret ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Sanio,Michael ;
Hanson, Frank ;
Auclair,Christine ;
French, Patrick ;
Biles,Annabel ;
Peirce, Neal ;
Saint, Andrew ;
Taillant,Jorge Daniel
Including project-related training (PRT) components in development projects is a sensible strategy. By ensuring that knowledge and skill levels are adequate to support the achievement of project objectives,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21130Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Maguire,Charles John
The Business Partnership Center forges ahead. Italy: a dynamic business partnership. MIGA creates specialized Investment Guarantee Trust Funds. Jean-Francois Rischard appointed the Bank's first Vice-President...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: new aid to lift Asia's crisis hit economies, by Kevin Rafferty; Asia, Africa boost FY98 lending, by Anna Shen; Wolfensohn praises 11-17...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56996Date: July 16, 1998Author:
Drattell,Alan M. ;
George,Morallina Fanwar ;
Oyewole,Olufunke Olabisi ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Sopher,Jamil
Deteriorating urban air quality causes significant economic losses in many developing countries. In some of the more industrialized developing countries, whose cities are now cloaked in smog, the cost...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26347Date: July 1, 1998Author:
Masami Kojima, and Eleodoro Mayorga-Alba
The results of technical tests on a range of lamps provide a guide to an optimal choice of lamps for improved lighting, mainly in rural areas in distributed applications i.e. in standalone (DC - Direct...
The note describes the objectives of the Inspection Panel (IP), i.e., to provide an independent forum to private citizens, who may believe their interests have been, or could be directly harmed by a project...
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