The major energy problems in Bangladesh
are the high cost of oil imports to meet the country's
energy needs, about 60 percent of export earnings in recent
years, and...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM15Date: April 30, 1984
This paper is a summary of the study,
titled "Regional Electrical Interconnection Study of
the Central American Isthmus," performed by the
Regional Office in Mexico...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: EGY15Date: April 30, 1984
Portugal's high energy import bill
is a serious constraint to the development of its
industrializing economy. The government has made an
impressive attempt to deal with...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4824Date: April 30, 1984
This press release announces The World
Bank is granting a loan of Fifty-Nine Million One Hundred
Thousand Dollars to Thailand on April 26, 1984. The loan
will be used...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158364Date: April 26, 1984
These remarks were delivered by A.W.
Clausen, President of the World Bank and International
Finance Corporation, before the Los Angeles World Affairs
Council on April...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 55809Date: April 25, 1984Author:
Clausen,A. W.
This press release, dated April 13,
1984, announces thirteen Robert S. McNamara fellowships,
totaling 265,000 dollars, have been awarded to young
scholars to support...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151068Date: April 13, 1984
This report records the remarks by Frank
Vogl, Director, Information and Public Affairs, the World
Bank at the Battery Council International ninety sixth
convention...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112092Date: April 10, 1984Author:
Vogl,Frank R.
This press release announces the World
Bank has approved a One Hundred Seventy Million Dollar loan
to Colombia on April 2, 1984. The loan will be used to help
finance...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158354Date: April 2, 1984
This Banks world newsletter includes
some of the following issue: task force on concessional
flows: tackling some different questions, by Shahid Javed
Burki; up, up,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 59348Date: April 1, 1984Author:
Alisbah,Bilsel ;
Calkins,Richard A. ;
Elz,Klaus Dieter ;
Burki,Shahid Javed ;
Enriquez Mejia,Luis Mariano ;
MESSITER, MARJORIE W. ;
Nepomuceno, Patricia D. ;
Sagnier,Thierry ;
Stern,Ernest ;
Tillier,Ellen
A railway vehicle requires substantially
less propulsive energy than a road vehicle of the same
weight moving at the same speed. However, other factors
favor road transport....
Type: Staff Working PaperReport#: SWP634Date: March 31, 1984Author:
Alston,Liviu L.
This report identifies the major issues
in Morocco's power subsector and the options open to
the Moroccan authorities for dealing with them. It reviews
briefly the country's...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4135Date: March 31, 1984
Morocco faces a complex set of choices
in the energy sector. While it currently is 85 percent
dependent on imported oil for its commercial energy needs,
it has important...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 4157Date: March 31, 1984
This press release announces the World
Bank has granted a loan of Forty Million Dollars to Peru on
March 29, 1984. The loan will be used to fund a project
designed to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158302Date: March 29, 1984
This press release announces the World
Bank has granted two loans totalling Two Hundred Million
Dollars to Hungary on March 29, 1984. The loans will be used
to help...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158303Date: March 29, 1984
This press release announces the Bank
has approved a Two Hundred Twenty Million Dollar Loan to
China on March 29, 1984. The loan will be used to support
the development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158160Date: March 29, 1984
This press release announces the Bank
has approved a loan of Two Hundred Thirty Million Dollars to
Korea on March 22, 1984. The loan will be used to help
support Korea’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157993Date: March 22, 1984
This press release announces the Bank
has approved a technical assistance loan of Twenty- Five
Million Dollars to Nigeria on March 22, 1984. The loan will
help Nigeria...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157983Date: March 22, 1984
This press release, dated March 12,
1984, announces the visit of Mr. A. W. Clausen, the
President of the World Bank, to the Sudan, Madagascar, and
Mauritius on March...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 151507Date: March 12, 1984
This press release announces the IDA
will grant Burma a credit equivalent to Twenty-Five Million
Dollars on March 8, 1984. The credit will help finance a
project to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 157043Date: March 8, 1984
It is becoming increasingly clear that
high but temporary oil revenues may be somewhat of a mixed
blessing. Many Third World oil producers are encountering
serious problems...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: REP297Date: March 1, 1984Author:
van Wijnbergen, Sweder
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