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#: 39277Date: January 15, 2002
The rapid urbanization in many
developing countries over the past half century seems to
have been accompanied by excessively high levels of
concentration of the urban...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76668Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Vernon Henderson
Maritime transport costs significantly
impede international trade. This article examines why these
costs are so high in some countries and quantifies the
importance...
The transport sector in India, is
characterized by high costs, and poor service quality,
resulting from outdated, and saturated road and rail
systems, problems aggravated...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 24580Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Levy,Hernan
The purpose of this paper is to distill
the lessons of ten years of infrastructure reform experience
in Latin America about how to make infrastructure
privatization...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 49945Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Estache, Antonio ; Foster, Vivien ; Wodon, Quentin
Realizing the promise of the new global
initiatives to expand trade requires concerted effort to
move development to center stage in trade policy
formulation. This report...
Type: PublicationReport#: 23590Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Newfarmer, Richard ;
Timmer, Hans ;
Varoudakis, Aris
Many inhabitants of rural areas in
developing countries lack adequate and affordable access to
transport infrastructure and services. Improving rural
people's access...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP525Date: January 1, 2002Author:
Starkey, Paul ;
Ellis, Simon ;
Hine, John ;
Ternell, Anna
The Supplemental Tables to the 2001
Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE) : Making
Choices, support the main report, 23342. The report
describes the outcome,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 27610Date: January 1, 2002
Assessing the welfare impacts of rural
roads poses a number of problems, with implications for data
collection and evaluation methods. The paper reports on a
study being...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44472Date: January 1, 2002Author:
van de Walle, Dominique; Cratty, Dorothyjean;
Buses are essential to everyday life in
South Asia. They affect urban air quality both, directly by
emitting air pollutants, and indirectly by reducing the
congestion,...
This document is an expanded version of
the paper published in 2000 under the title "Trade and
Transport Facilitation: An Audit Methodology." It seeks
to improve the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP427Date: December 31, 2001Author:
Raven,John A.
The Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy
Program (SSATP) was launched fifteen years ago as a joint
initiative of the World Bank and the United Nations Economic
Commission...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27318Date: December 24, 2001Author:
Nigel P.W. Ings
Following extensive consultations with
both public and private sector stakeholders, the Road
Management Initiative (RMI) formerly known as Road
Maintenance Initiative...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27317Date: December 1, 2001Author:
M.I. Pinard ;
Kaombwe,Severin M.
Investments in rural water systems can
have a profound impact on the economic activity and quality
of life of the poor. As the Bank has increasingly focused on
the poor,...
Type: BriefReport#: 24572Date: December 1, 2001Author:
McEuen, Caroline [series editor]
These remarks were delivered by James D.
Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank Group, on October
31, 2001. He discusses the strong support the Bank gives to
the African...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101463Date: October 31, 2001Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
Air pollution is viewed as a serious
problem in many cities in South Asia. Many city governments
hold transport largely responsible and have adopted, or are
considering,...
The East Timor Transitional
Administration (ETTA), the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP), the World Bank and the Asian Development
Bank (ADB) are currently conducting...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45359Date: October 1, 2001
Natural gas (NG) is a clean-burning
alternative fuel, with significant potential for reducing
harmful emissions, especially those of fine particles, from
vehicles. Vehicular...
This paper provides an overview of
current evidence on the nature and magnitude of the access
challenge in developing countries, of the policy options
available to governments...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 37559Date: October 1, 2001Author:
Brook,Penelope J. ;
Smith,Warrick P.
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