• Annual review of evaluation results 1995 (R96-238) : Executive Directors' meeting - December 12, 1996
    The Annual Review of Portfolio Performance (ARPP) raises the question (and so did several EDs) whether our evaluation standards may be too stringent. There is a rigorous methodology behind the ratings...
    Type: Board Report Report#: 66488 Date: December 12, 1996
  • Gabon : Road Maintenance Project
    Type: Brief Report#: 141514 Date: December 9, 1996
  • Air pollution from motor vehicles : standards and technologies for controlling emissions
    This handbook presents a state-of-the-art review of vehicle emission standards and testing procedures and attempts to synthesize worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their...
    Type: Publication Report#: 16190 Date: November 30, 1996 Author: Faiz,Asif ; Weaver, Christopher S. ; Walsh,Michael P.
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina - The priority reconstruction program : from emergency to sustainability (Vol. 3 of 3) : Reconstruction sector reports
    This report consists of two main sections. The first provides an overview of progress in the reconstruction effort in Bosnia-Herzegovina during 1996, and summarizes the lessons of implementation. The second...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 22908 Date: November 30, 1996
  • Concessions in transport (Vol. 1 of 2)
    This paper considers world wide experience with a restricted range of the spectrum of options for private participation in the supply of transport infrastructure and services. That range, which is termed...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 17876 Date: November 30, 1996 Author: Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ; Shaw,L. Nicola ; Thompson,Louis Stanley
  • Institutional development impact study
    This report attempts to determine the causes behind the South Asia region's (SAS) poor relative performance in the achievement of institutional development objectives. The first portion of the analysis...
    Type: Internal Discussion Paper Report#: IDP168 Date: November 30, 1996 Author: Godek, Lisa M.
  • Annual review of evaluation results 1995 (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annexes
    The OED's twenty-second annual review reports on the results of 264 operations for a disbursement value of almost $26 million. It also analyzes performance trends and describes OED's rating methodology....
    Type: IEG Evaluation Report#: 16110 Date: November 15, 1996
  • Creating mixed-income communities in Jordan
    This Precis entitled, Creating mixed-income communities in Jordan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Jordan : Second urban development project,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 28696 Date: November 1, 1996 Author: Ronald Parker, Farah Ebrahimi
  • The Zambian RPED study : final report - round three
    Due to the somewhat tighter budget of this round compared to that of the two earlier rounds, it has not been possible within the frame of the project to undertake any proper analyses of the collected data....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 56887 Date: November 1, 1996 Author: Von Der Fehr,Nils-Henrik M. ; FORSUND, FINN R. ; KITTELSEN, SVERRE A. C.
  • Concessions in transport (Vol. 2 of 2) : Descriptions of concessions, by mode
    This paper considers world wide experience with a restricted range of the spectrum of options for private participation in the supply of transport infrastructure and services. That range, which is termed...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 17876 Date: November 1, 1996 Author: Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ; Shaw,L. Nicola ; Thompson,Louis Stanley
  • Best practice in labor-based contracting in the road sector
    This program trained contractors in labor-based methods in the local road contracting industry in Ghana in order to produce gravel roads of equal quality to equipment-based methods, and generate rural...
    Type: Brief Report#: 60569 Date: November 1, 1996
  • Constructing a competitive environment in public road passenger transport
    This paper considers how much regulatory reform may improve performance in urban public passenger transport and the nature of the regulatory reform necessary to achieve the greatest benefit. The report...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 16119 Date: October 31, 1996 Author: Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ; Scurfied, Richard G.
  • Metro Manila report
    The Urban Air Quality Management Strategy, or URBAIR aims to assist in the design, and implementation of policies, monitoring, and management tools to restore air quality in the major Asian metropolitan...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 26302 Date: October 31, 1996 Author: Shah, Jitendra ; Nagpal, Tanvi [editors] ; Larssen,
  • Road funds, user charges and taxes
    Road related expenditures can be classified as: capital expenditures, financed through borrowing for the categories of construction and rehabilitation; or, current expenditures, for periodic and routine...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 18930 Date: October 31, 1996 Author: Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ; Shalizi, Zmarak M.
  • Greater Mumbai report
    This report aims to assist policymakers in designing and implementing policies, in monitoring and devising management tools to restore air quality in Mumbai (Bombay), India's financial and commercial capital....
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 26304 Date: October 31, 1996 Author: Shah,Jitendra J. ; Nagpal, Tanvi [editors] ; Larssen, Steinar ; Gram, Frederick ; Hagen, Leif Otto ; Jansen, Huib ; Olsthoorn, Xander ; Aundhe, Rajiv V. ; Joglekar, Ulhas
  • Transport and the village : findings from African village-level travel and transport surveys and related studies
    This paper, prepared under the Rural Travel and Transport Project (RTTP) of the sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) focuses on local level transport in rural Africa. Households surveys...
    Type: Publication Report#: WDP344 Date: October 31, 1996 Author: BARWELL, IAN J.
  • China - Container transport services and trade : framework for an efficient container transport system
    This report describes the barriers that hinder intermodal transport in China and presents a policy framework against which the country can develop an efficient and market-oriented system. The report finds...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 15303 Date: October 10, 1996
  • Urban Air Quality Management Strategy in Asia (URBAIR) : Kathmandu valley report
    Larger and more diverse cities are a sign of Asia's increasingly dynamic economies. Yet this growth has come at a cost. Swelling urban populations and increased concentration of industry and automotive...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 52906 Date: October 1, 1996 Author: Gronskei, Knut Erik ; Gram, Frederick ; Hagen, Leif Otto ; Larssen,Steinar
  • Promoting intermediate means of transport : approach paper
    A transport system responsive to needs is recognized as a major prerequisite for the social and economic development of rural areas. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the rural transport system are, in general, in...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 27221 Date: October 1, 1996 Author: I.T. Transport Ltd
  • Rural transport planning : approach paper
    Transport Infrastructure (RTI) - its "public goods "nature - was identified as the primary reason why governments and, therefore, planners must be involved in providing it. The concept of a "public service...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 27220 Date: October 1, 1996 Author: Ed Connerley, and Larry Schroeder
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