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. Using household surveys to build...
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 in many countries. To avoid this...
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, continued operation of high-loss passenger...
Type: BriefReport#: 54990Date: August 1, 1999Author:
MITCHELL, BRIGITTA ;
Budin,Karim-Jacques
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 practical ways to address poverty...
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 beautiful environment and a rich intellectual...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48153Date: July 1, 1999Author:
Bertaud,Alain Charles
The report examines the major investments required for transport infrastructure, to pursue Poland's economic development, and potential accession to the European Union (EU). Policy choices and investment...
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 gas markets - the Northern Ireland...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19690Date: June 30, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Izaguirre, Ada Katrina ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Rasmussen,Karen T. ;
Green, Richard ;
Gomez-Lobo,Andres ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Komives,Kristin ;
Brook Cowen, PenelopeJ. ;
Saghir,Jamal ;
Sherwood,Elisabeth ;
Macoun,Andrew ;
Tynan,Nicola Caroline ;
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, and project size. Through database...
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 transport enterprises, not all direct...
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 transport enterprises, not all direct...
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 November 1998, whose findings were discussed...
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