This study has been carried out as a direct response to the government's request for assistance in preparing a comprehensive transport development strategy, with emphasis on the following objectives: 1)...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 13808Date: December 19, 1995
This study has been carried out as a direct response to the government's request for assistance in preparing a comprehensive transport development strategy, with emphasis on the following objectives: 1)...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 13808Date: December 19, 1995
The note addresses the immediate gains of trade liberalization to workers' welfare, allowing cheaper imports, and enabling most workers to become more productive, as their products increase in value. One...
The focus of this report is on world wide experience and identification of factors which make for trade facilitation through successful application of information technology (IT). Economic advantages from...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP316Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Schware, Robert ;
Kimberley, Paul
Roughly 16,000 buses serve the 16 million inhabitants of the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region; 12,000 of them serve the Sao Paulo municipality itself, where 8.5 million people live. Congestion is heavy at...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1546Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Rebelo, Jorge M. ;
Benvenuto, Pedro P.
During the coming years, air transport infrastructure needs to be expanded and modernized to accommodate the growing demand for international travel and transport of goods and merchandise. Developing...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 15271Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Juan,Ellis J.
The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) is an effort to promote development and trade in natural gas in the countries along West Africa's coastline from the Senegal River to South Africa. The initiative aims at...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17628Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Shirazi,Mohsen
Foreign trade statistics have been greatly affected by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the economic transformation that the newly independent states are now undergoing. Previously, the measurement...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15178Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Belkindas,Misha V. ;
Ivanova, Olga V. [editors]
This study has been carried out as a direct response to the government's request to develop a program of assistance in support of a comprehensive transport strategy, with emphasis on the following objectives:...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 13891Date: November 16, 1995
This study has been carried out as a direct response to the government's request to develop a program of assistance in support of a comprehensive transport strategy, with emphasis on the following objectives:...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 13891Date: November 16, 1995
This study has been carried out as a direct response to the government's request to develop a program of assistance in support of a comprehensive transport strategy, with emphasis on the following objectives:...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 13891Date: November 16, 1995
This Precis entitled, Privatization and deregulation in Mexico, is an abbreviated version of the Bank ' s Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Report No. 14400, dated April...
Type: BriefReport#: 29225Date: November 1, 1995Author:
Weaving,Rachel V.
East Asia's infrastructure challenges arise from three related elements: 1) project investment requirements are vast: during the next decade, developing East Asian economies will need to invest about 7...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 30629Date: November 1, 1995
Throughout the world, the rail industry has been one of the most heavily regulated sectors. The public utility paradigm of government regulation has failed to handle the central regulatory problem - the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16918Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N. ;
Willig,Robert D.
Advanced infrastructure, as addressed in this article, refers to a spectrum of transportation and communications systems and services enhanced by using information technology and delivered by innovative...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 16281Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Mody, Ashoka ;
Reinfeld, William
This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP294Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Valdes, Alberto ;
Schaeffer, Barry ;
Sturzenegger, A
The development of the performance of the Finnish road sector discussed using the Finnish National Road Administration, RinnRA, as the main example. The author also takes examples from municipal street...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27233Date: October 1, 1995Author:
Isotalo,Jukka L.
This publication comes three years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when almost all the countries in the world endorsed the concept of environmentally sustainable development. It documents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15024Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Mason,Jocelyn T.
In IFC Discussion Paper 19, the author found that the strength or weakness of a country's system of intellectual property protection seems to have substantial effect, particularly in high-technology industries,...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD27Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Mansfield, Edwin
This report is a summary of the publication "Mainstreaming the environment," which came three years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It documents how the World Bank has sought to be an...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15014Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Mason,Jocelyn T.
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