The report examines three case studies
in Tanzania, and presents the findings for hydropower
development, based on cost-effective schemes designs,
intended to benefit...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 25218Date: March 31, 2000
Competitive markets go a long way toward
making telecommunications services available throughout the
population. But governments often seek to extend access to
services...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21463Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Wellenius,Bjorn
The note reviews three successive
transport projects in Ghana (First and Second Transport
Rehabilitation, and National Feeder Roads Rehabilitation
Projects), which contributed...
Type: BriefReport#: 23003Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Reja,Binyam
The report is an overview of
Nepal's economic development, comprising five volumes,
which include the main report, followed by reviews on
agricultural and rural development,...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 20211Date: March 31, 2000
The study presents an overview on
Argentina's economic growth, income distribution, and
poverty, mostly as of 1991, when the country underwent a
period of adjustment,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 19992Date: March 23, 2000
The first nationwide regulation of
transportation in the United States (U.S.) was intervention
in railways. In the 1830 to 1880 period, railways had been
over-built...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84209Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Thompson,Louis Stanley
The basic premises of the Program are
that: (i) policy reform is essential to obtain improved
provision of transport services; and (ii) countries and
their development...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27260Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program
In developed and developing countries,
road systems are central not only to the economic health of
the nation, but also to the quality of the environment and,
in general,...
Type: BriefReport#: 54810Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Samantha de Silva, Christine Kamwendo
To increase investment in
infrastructure, in the early 1990s Chile's government
introduced private capital into the transport infrastructure
sector, covering roads and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2279Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Gomez-Lobo, Andres ;
Hinojosa, Sergio
This Annual Review of Development
Effectiveness focuses considerably, on the cooperative
approach of the Comprehensive Development Framework, which
captures the consensus...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 19905Date: January 19, 2000
The report summarizes the air quality
monitoring component, as part of the regional study on
Cleaner Transportation Fuels for Urban Air Quality
Improvement in Central...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21295Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Telling, Steve ;
Stacey, Brian ;
Mansimov, Rzakhan ;
Hajiev, Abdul ;
Gasan-Zade, Zaki ;
Abbasov, Gazanfar ;
Chub, Victor ;
Ososkova, Tatyana ;
Nazarova, Valentina ;
Sventsiskaya,Olga ;
Kojima, Masami ;
Bacon, Robert ;
Fodor, Martin ;
Lovei, Magda
The combination of distance, poor
infrastructure, and being landlocked by neighbors with poor
infrastructure, can make transport costs many times higher
for some developing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2256Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Venables, Anthony J. ;
Limao, Nuno
This overview of the road transport
sector in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, includes an
analysis of current status, and developments since 1989, and
examines...
This report explores the role of energy
policy in reducing the environmental consequences of
transportation in developing countries. The report's
central thesis is that...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM224Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Krupnick, Alan ;
Harrington, Winston
The authors use three different data
sets to investigate how transport depends on geography and
infrastructure. Landlocked countries have high transport
costs, which...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2257Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Limao, Nuno ;
Venables, Anthony J.
More than ninety developing economies
opened their telecommunications sector to private
participation between 1990 and 1998. These countries
transferred to the private...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21461Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
This news release, dated December 22,
1999, announces the World Bank approved 22.4 million dollars
in credits to the government of Bhutan to improve and expand
the coverage...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161856Date: December 22, 1999
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