The author examines whether trade
liberalization should create a greater incentive for
countries to invest in transportation infrastructure. He
pays special attention...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1851Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Bond,Eric W.
Urban Air Quality Management Strategy
(URBAIR) aims to assist in the design and implementation of
policies, monitoring, and management to restore air quality
in Asian...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17370Date: November 30, 1997Author:
Shah, Jitendra J. ;
Nagpal, Tanvi ;
Brandon, Carter
The Public Expenditure Review (PER) in
Benin is considered an integral component of the structural
adjustment program. The process is multi-year and
multi-sectoral,...
Some governments are reluctant to
surrender political control over regulatory decisions, and
some who agree on the general desirability of independent
agencies may question...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17315Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Smith,Warrick P.
There are three main issues in defining
a utility regulator's role: the scope of its coverage,
its role in relation to ministers, and its role in relation
to other regulatory...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17223Date: October 31, 1997Author:
Smith,Warrick P.
With railway restructuring and
privatization and other sector reforms begun or being
considered, this report overviews the remaining public
policy reforms needed to...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 16361Date: October 15, 1997
These are the proceedings of the Seminar
on Railway Concessioning in Africa, which provide the
overall theme of the conference, namely the concern that the
railway experience...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27250Date: October 14, 1997Author:
Akele, Ezan ;
Thiam,Tidjane Cheick ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley ;
Posner,Henry ;
Victo, Paul ;
Monpert, Jean-Yves
During the period May 19-31, 1997, three
Bank staff, Connie Luff, Philippe Callier, and Mark
Blackden, took part in a village immersion program. They
stayed for two...
The World Bank has founded 25
transportation projects in Thailand since 1950. An OED
Performance audit report, by Antti Talvitie, of five of
these projects, approved...
Type: BriefReport#: 27793Date: October 1, 1997Author:
Talvitie,Antti P.
Rationing can backfire: the "day
without a car" in Mexico City. Prices and protocols in
public health care. Formal and informal regulation of
industrial pollution: comparative...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17657Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Feyzioglu, Tarhan ;
Hammer, Jeffrey S. ;
Pargal, Sheoli ;
Hettige, Hemamala ;
Singh, Manjula ;
Wheeler, David ;
Taylor, Mark P. ;
Sarno, Lucio ;
Hoekman, Bernard ;
Djankow, Simeon ;
Haggarty, Luke ;
Shirley, Mary M.
The objective of this study is to assess
the economic viability of the inclusion of gas turbine and
combined cycle power plants in the Brazilian South-Southeast
(SSE)...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM197Date: September 30, 1997
The role of transport sector operations
in the contribution to poverty reduction, needs to be
articulated. By and large, transport projects are assessed
in terms of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 22568Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Gannon,Colin A. ;
Liu,Zhi
Mexico's private toll road program
more than doubled the national toll road network from 1989
to 1994. The investment of approximately US$13 billion in
the program was...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17083Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Ruster,Jeff E.
Latin America and the Caribbean is the
most urbanized region in the developing world with a rapidly
growing motor vehicle fleet. The number of urban areas with
populations...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP373Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Onursal, Bekir ;
Gautam, Surhid P.
China was closed economy until 1979. As
a result of open-door policies and reforms, its relationship
with the rest of the world has been transformed and its
growth has...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17231Date: September 30, 1997Author:
Dasgupta,Dipak
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