India's transport
system--especially surface transport--is seriously
deficient, and its services are highly inefficient by
international standards. The economic losses...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 24457Date: May 10, 2002
With accelerated global urbanization,
ever-expanding population and related urban environmental
degradation, a critical issue for city authorities in the
new century...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46014Date: May 1, 2002Author:
Joanna Harper, Lee; Fernandes, Vellet;
The report is based on the Interim Work
Plan for 2001 issued in February 2001 following discussions
with donors at the Initial General Assembly Meeting held in
Copenhagen....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27320Date: May 1, 2002
The note describes the response taken to
the deteriorating condition of the road network and high
associated economic cost, involving various stakeholder
consultations...
Type: BriefReport#: 28538Date: May 1, 2002Author:
Ajay Kumar
The authors test two alternative models
of learning to export: productivity learning, whereby firms
learn to reduce production cost, and, market learning,
whereby firms...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2827Date: April 30, 2002Author:
Fafchamps, Marcel ;
El Hamine, Said ;
Zeufack, Albert
Traffic management can improve the flow
of traffic on the roads, reducing emissions per vehicle
kilometer traveled and enhancing urban mobility. But if it
generates...
This Strategic Country Gender Assessment
(SCGA) summarizes relevant gender issues in Benin both to
support the dialogue with the government and to inform our
own country...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39330Date: April 11, 2002
The project -Transport Sector Technical
Assistance, later renamed Project for the Adjustment and
Planning of the Urban and Transport Sectors - was conceived
as an integral...
Type: BriefReport#: 30034Date: April 1, 2002Author:
Mohan, P.C. [editor]
The present report builds on previous
efforts directed toward reform of the oil and gas sector and
focuses on the implementation of a regulatory framework for
the downstream...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 33285Date: April 1, 2002
Tanzania has been one of the countries
at the forefront of reforms inspired by the Road Management
Initiative. This paper focuses on some of the main
challenges that...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 29727Date: April 1, 2002Author:
Kumar, Ajay
Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in
Delhi recently reviewed the information available since 1990
in India to answer the question: which sources are
responsible...
Government has responded to the
recommendations of the May 2000 Logging Mission. There is
now no evidence of significant continuing illegal logging in
the project area....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66596Date: March 26, 2002
This monthly report updates the
activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET),
established by the World Bank's Board of Governors
following the December 1999 Tokyo...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39279Date: March 26, 2002
This news release, dated March 8, 2002,
announces the World Bank approved 20.9 million dollars in
loans and credits to support five Emergency Recovery
Projects undertaken...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162345Date: March 8, 2002
This is the second edition of
'Ghana and the World Bank' that I have had the
pleasure of overseeing. Again, this is timed to coincide
with the holding of the Consultative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74383Date: March 1, 2002
The key features of the road reform
process initiated in Uganda are: (a) development of an
analytical basis to review different road financing and
management options;...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 29726Date: March 1, 2002Author:
Kumar, Ajay
Mexico City has for years experienced
high levels of ozone and particulate air pollution. In
1995-99 the entire population of the Mexico City
metropolitan area was exposed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2785Date: February 28, 2002Author:
Cesar, Herman ;
Borja-Aburto, Victor H. ;
Dorland, K
Recent literature has emphasized the
importance of transport costs and infrastructure in
explaining trade, access to markets, and increases in per
capita income. For...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2781Date: February 28, 2002Author:
Clark, Ximena ;
Dollar, David ;
Micco, Alejandro
This monthly report updates the
activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET),
established by the World Bank's Board of Governors
following the December 1999 Tokyo...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39278Date: February 14, 2002
Over the past ten years or so, the road
sector has undergone major reforms in a number of
Sub-Saharan African countries. This process has been
encouraged by the donor...
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