This news release, dated December 17,
1999, announces poor people in 36 provinces in rural Vietnam
benefit from a United States (U.S.) 103.9 million dollars
equivalent...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161860Date: December 17, 1999
This news release, dated December 7,
1999, announces the World Bank approved a United States
(U.S.) 13.65 million dollars equivalent credit to support
the Albania Emergency...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161864Date: December 7, 1999
This note outlines the progress achieved
by the Western Cape Provincial Government to attain
formalization of the minibus taxi industry envisaged in
terms of the National...
Type: BriefReport#: 54854Date: December 1, 1999Author:
Ahmed, Yasir
In the early 1990s, Cote d'Ivoire
developed and implemented an ambitious privatization program
dealing with sixty enterprises from all sectors across the
economy, including...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 56440Date: December 1, 1999
The review presents an overview of the
road sector in the seven UDEAC countries and in the
Democratic Republic of Congo. It examines the adequacy of
the infrastructure...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27259Date: December 1, 1999Author:
Ole Kr. Sylte
Trade in Europe and Central Asia (ECA)
has been deeply transformed in the 1990s, with a strong
increase of international trade and exports, and a shift of
trade towards...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 25491Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Ollivier, Gerald ;
Taborga, Pedro N.
During the 1990s private sponsors have
participated in projects involving eighty-nine airports in
twenty-three developing countries, with investment totaling
US$5.4...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19933Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Da Silva,Gisele F.
Since the early 1990s, legal and
institutional reform in the roads sector has received more
attention in the Southern African Development Conference
(SADC) region. This...
Type: BriefReport#: 22654Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Coetzee, Sandra J.H.
When Argentina initiated reform of its
transport sector in 1989, it had few models to follow. It
was the first Latin American country to privatize its
intercity railroad,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2249Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Estache, Antonio ;
Carbajo, Jose C. ;
de Rus, Gines
In August 1996, the Heads of State of
the Southern African Development Community (SADC) signed the
Protocol on Transport, Communications and Meteorology, which
sets...
Type: BriefReport#: 22653Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Coetzee, Sandra J.H.
The Comprehensive Development Framework
(CDF), launched by the President of the World Bank in
January 1999, is a response to the alarming trends of
increased world poverty...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 20180Date: November 30, 1999
This Country Framework Report (CFR)
describes and assesses the current status and performance of
key infrastructure sectors in India, the policy, regulatory,
and institutional...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 36054Date: November 1, 1999
This Country Framework Report (CFR)
looks at Vietnam's Recent Performance in the
Infrastructure Sectors, and the significant improvements in
the supply of infrastructure...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 36052Date: November 1, 1999
The year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug could
potentially affect digital control systems and computer
hardware/software that rely on date-dependent calculations
for their proper...
As we enter the twenty-first century,
transport is a critical link between economic and social
development. Effective transport systems allow people to get
to their...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 30421Date: November 1, 1999
The note is based on a review of the
road sector within the member countries of the Customs and
Economic Union of Central African States (UDEAC), and
describes the road...
For a World Bank Institute course on
transport privatization, the authors cover basic issues
associated with the regulation of privatized airport
infrastructure and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2180Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Betancor, Ofelia ;
Rendeiro, Robert
This note reviews the outcomes of the
First Highway Rehabilitation Project, and its resettlement
and rehabilitation (R&R) activities, with significant
involuntary resettlement....
The goal of this study is to develop the
first steps of a Bank strategy for restraining greenhouse
gas (GHG) emission from transportation. The study addressees
the issue...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 20023Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Schipper, Lee ;
Marie-Lilliu, Celine
The private sector has become
increasingly involved in the operation of common-user port
facilities during the 1990s, following public sector
dominance of the sector...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22401Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Sommer,Dirk
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