Transport infrastructure plays a central role in rural development, yet little is known about the size - or, especially, the distribution - of benefits from road investments. Among other benefits, rural...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2028Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Jacoby,Hanan G.
Since the demise of the Soviet Union, urban transport services in the Kyrgyz Republic have deteriorated badly and are increasingly incapable of satisfying public demand. Currently publicly owned and operated...
Reform of the natural gas industry in Ukraine started a year later than reform of the power industry. Because gas reform had no blueprint, its direction has remained ambiguous. That ambiguity is the result...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18962Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
Most of Colombia's general cargo trade has been handled by four public ports: Barranquilla, Cartagena, and Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast and Buenaventura on the Pacific coast. These four ports were...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18924Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Gaviria,Juan
This news release, dated December 23, 1998, announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 50 million dollars credit to help Nicaragua recover from the devastation of Hurricane Mitch.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161837Date: December 23, 1998
Over the past five years, the 'second liberalization' of Africa has liberalized the local media in turn. The explosion of media outlets and the diversity of their outreach provide excellent opportunities...
Type: BriefReport#: 57147Date: December 1, 1998Author:
Mwale,Samuel Mwamburi
This report reviews the current situation of Ukraine's transport sector, follows with a vision of a reformed transport sector in a market economy, and suggests the steps necessary to the transition. The...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 18636Date: November 30, 1998
This report reviews the current situation of Ukraine's transport sector, follows with a vision of a reformed transport sector in a market economy, and suggests the steps necessary to the transition. The...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 18636Date: November 30, 1998
This report reviews the current situation of Ukraine's transport sector, follows with a vision of a reformed transport sector in a market economy, and suggests the steps necessary to the transition. The...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 18636Date: November 30, 1998
For over three decades, Sub-Saharan African countries have had an interest in regional integration initiatives to accelerate their industrialization and growth. With the help of a more comprehensive database...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2004Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Yeats,Alexander James
Should a conceding authority auction off or negotiate a contract for an exclusive private infrastructure deal? Advocates of negotiation often argue that a formal competition may take too much time, that...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18719Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
The longer a concession lasts, the less effect the initial rounds of bidding will have on the terms of the concession over its full life. Much more influential will be periodic renegotiations or price...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18721Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
This transcript discusses about the business in the community program, befriended in 1985, a program which today seems quite normal in terms of its focus on having businesses reach out into the communities...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 99960Date: November 17, 1998Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
Accounting for around a third of the 1996 Goss Domestic Product (GDP) of US$ 9 billion (second only to oil), and almost three-fourths of all employment, agriculture is a dominant sector of the Cameroonian...
Type: BriefReport#: 57146Date: November 1, 1998Author:
Bindlish, Vishva L. ;
Clementine Ananga, Messina
The Thirteenth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee for the Road Management Initiative (RMI) and the Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP) of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP)...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27257Date: November 1, 1998
This paper develops a simple framework to analyze various pollution control strategies that have been used or are proposed in the urban passenger transport sector. The context is the declining quality...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1991Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Heil, Mark ;
Pargal,Sheoli
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: better aid will give new life to 80m a year by Kevin Rafferty; Hollywood comes to the World Bank, by Nazanine Atabaki and Lynn Thornton;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57000Date: October 26, 1998Author:
Atabaki,Nazanine ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Thornton, Lynn
Private participation in electricity industries has grown substantially since 1990, with electricity becoming one of the leading infrastructure sectors in attracting private investment. Between 1990 and...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18714Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre
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