Commercial Agricultural Production (CAP)
was a United States Agency for International Development
(USAID)-funded technical assistance project implemented by
the US development...
Urban air pollution is a matter of
increasing concern in many of the newly independent states
(NIS). This study has reviewed the current status of three
principal areas...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20873Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Fodor,Martin ;
Kojima,Masami ;
Lovei,Magda
This 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 Donors'...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39248Date: August 7, 2000
Until the late 1970s, the Finnish Road
and Waterways Administration (RWA), under Finland's
Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC),
operated as a highly...
Type: BriefReport#: 54799Date: August 1, 2000Author:
Ojala, Lauri; Sirvio, Esko;
Developing countries, which received
about $35 billion in net settlement payments from the United
States telecom carriers between 1985 and 1998, were upset by
the Federal...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2401Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Wallsten, Scott J.
Some countries in the World Trade
Organization initially opposed WTO's decision to exempt
electronic delivery of products from customs duties, out of
concern for the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2380Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Mattoo, Aaditya ;
Schuknecht, Ludger
Road transport has long been the
dominant form of transport for freight and passenger
movement throughout the world. Because most road projects
require investments with...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2387Date: June 30, 2000Author:
Estache, Antonio ;
Romero, Manuel ;
Strong, John
This structural and regulatory review
focuses on key infrastructure sectors in Romania. The report
has both substantive and procedural aspects. At the
substantive level,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 36057Date: June 15, 2000Author:
Kessides, Ioannis N. [editor]
The paper is an economic analysis of how
to mitigate political risk to stimulate private investment
in Caspian oil and gas reserves, and explores the
macroeconomic implications...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 35370Date: June 1, 2000Author:
Walters,Jonathan D.
The authors describe how Sao Paulo State
granted a 20-year concession for operating a busway, one
requirement for which was that the concessionaire replace
the diesel...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2353Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Rebelo, Jorge ;
Machado, Pedro
In China, rural road improvements have
been integrated with major highway projects, implemented
with World Bank assistance, during 1995-98. These
improvements were called,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 21038Date: May 31, 2000Author:
Hajj, Hatim ;
Pendakur, V. Setty
Governance is the way in which public
power and authority is formed and used to control and manage
society's resources. Good governance rests on four
pillars: (a) accountability,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 28019Date: May 1, 2000Author:
Lee, Young ;
Nunberg,Barbara ;
Pilichowski,Elsa ;
Song,Su Yong ;
Stone,Andrew H. W. ;
Zoido-Lobaton,Pablo
The document provides the papers
presented, and discussions held at the Fourteenth Meeting of
the Coordinating Committee for the Rural Travel and
Transport Program (RTTP)...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27296Date: May 1, 2000Author:
Banjo,George A. ;
Bamberger,J. Michael ;
Mbogori, E.
This report comprises the proceedings of
the Fourteenth Annual Coordinating Committee Meeting for the
Road Management Initiative (RMI), held in Pretoria, the
Republic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27469Date: May 1, 2000
The World Bank has participated, along
with other financing agencies and many client countries, in
notable improvements to basic visible transport
infrastructure, through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20379Date: April 30, 2000Author:
Raven,John A.
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World
Bank. He discusses on poverty and the way in which the
institution is reacting....
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101404Date: April 13, 2000Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
This paper describes and analyses the
growth of private sector participation in public transport
supply in the countries in the Former Soviet Union in which
the World...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27040Date: April 1, 2000Author:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M.
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