With containerized shipping, maritime
transport has changed profoundly. Among other things, it has
shifted from labor-intensive to more capital-intensive
activities,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2181Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Trujillo, Lourdes ;
Nombela, Gustavo
Contents: Theory and practice: legal
conflicts and leasing company practice; municipal transport
and leasing; leasing Ford automobiles. Expert opinion:
licensing leasing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39575Date: September 1, 1999
Road funds, user charges, and taxes, by
Ken Gwilliam and Zmarak Shalizi. Between the state and the
market: can informal insurance patch the safety net? By
Jonathan Morduch....
Type: PublicationReport#: 20350Date: August 31, 1999Author:
Binswanger,Hans P. ;
Blank,Lorraine R. ;
Deininger,Klaus W. ;
Dinar,Ariel ;
Grosh,Margaret Ellen ;
Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ;
Irwin, Timothy ;
Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann ;
Mendelsohn,Robert ;
Morduch,Jonathan J. ;
Perry, Guillermo E. ;
Reilly, John ;
Shalizi,Zmarak ;
Thobani,Mateen
Insufficient or uncertain budgetary
allocations to road maintenance have resulted in road
deterioration that has significantly increased production
and transport costs...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76637Date: August 1, 1999Author:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ;
Shalizi,Zmarak
Since the 1980s, most Sub-Saharan
African railways have been experiencing a severe crisis:
declining traffic and revenue, lack of market orientation
and poor service,...
Transport is often viewed as having only
an indirect role in poverty reduction. This note highlights
opportunities for transport to directly help the poor, and
suggests...
Type: BriefReport#: 81603Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Gannon,Colin A. ;
Liu,Zhi
Cracow a city of 750,000, is well
situated to benefit from Poland's integration into the
European Union. It is a city near the center of Europe, with
an exceptionally...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48153Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Bertaud,Alain
The report examines the major
investments required for transport infrastructure, to pursue
Poland's economic development, and potential accession
to the European Union...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 19450Date: June 30, 1999
A scorecard for energy reform in
developing countries. Private participation in the
transmission and distribution of natural gas - recent
trends. Regulation in new natural...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19690Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Bacon, Robert ;
Izaguirre, Ada Katrina ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Rasmussen, Karen ;
Green, Richard ;
Gomez-Lobo, Andres ;
Foster, Vivien ;
Komives, Kristin ;
Brook Cowen, PenelopeJ. ;
Saghir, Jamal ;
Sherwood, Elisabeth ;
Macoun, Andrew ;
Tynan, Nicola ;
Rebelo, Jorge M.
This note focuses on rail projects with
private participation, that reached financial closure in
1990-1997, surveying regional trends, types of private
participation,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19566Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Tynan,Nicola Caroline
Although Croatia achieved major
improvements in the transport sector since independence,
creating suitable laws to govern the sector, in addition to
privatizing some...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 19447Date: June 15, 1999
Although Croatia achieved major
improvements in the transport sector since independence,
creating suitable laws to govern the sector, in addition to
privatizing some...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 19447Date: June 15, 1999
This note presents the main conclusions
of an on-site study of urban transport dysfunction, and air
pollution in the Dakar agglomeration, carried out from
August to...
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