Roads often bring significant economic and social benefits, but they can also have substantial negative impacts on communities and the natural environment. As we become more aware of these impacts, there...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 13709Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Shalizi,Zmarak
If regulations are used to make cars and fuels cleaner, should gasoline taxes be used to manage demand for trips that pollute? Anaysis of a well-composed program for Mexico City indicates that the emission...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 13668Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern
India's trade policy regime has changed dramatically since July 1991. The objective of reform has been to improve export performance by improving export incentives and eliminating discretionary controls....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1355Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Kathuria,Sanjay
The Sahel Operational Review (SOR) seeks to accelerate the transfer of lessons learned in natural resource management from ongoing Bank projects to the design of new Bank projects. This paper is the final...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 13598Date: September 30, 1994Author:
Lusigi, Walter ;
Buursink, John
This report analyzes the industrial dynamism occurring in China during the period 1978-90. A detailed research of the relative importance of the Hong Kong and Taiwan factor, or coastal strategy, as well...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 18512Date: August 31, 1994Author:
Ratha,Dilip Singh ;
Inderjit,Geng Xiao
The paper looks at the transformation of intergovernment fiscal relations from the point of view of a regional administration in Russia. It also describes changes in local fiscal management. The Yaroslavl...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP143Date: August 31, 1994Author:
Freinkman, Lev ;
Titov, Stepan
Tajikistan's economic situation has been affected by unprecedented shocks since it gained independence. Since 1992 the country has undergone a protracted period of civil war, political instability, and...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 12692Date: August 12, 1994
In 1986, Viet Nam embarked on a cautious program of economic reforms designed to reverse the rapid economic deterioration of the previous 15 years, reduce the country's dependence on the Council for Mutual...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 12778Date: August 8, 1994
The purpose of Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme's (ESMAP's) study on energy conservation in the Philippine is to assist the government of the Philippines to formulate a long-term. This study...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 48188Date: August 1, 1994
This press release announces The World Bank's operational results for fiscal year 1994 on July 1, 1994. New lending commitments from the World Bank to development countries totaled twenty point eight billion...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160565Date: July 1, 1994
This study reveals the results of a review of World Bank assistance in member countries' efforts to privatize. This assistance and support has taken the form of financing and technical assistance: 1) to...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 13273Date: June 24, 1994
These press releases announce The World Bank's signing of four loans totaling eight hundred twenty million dollars to Russia to restore growth to the Russian economy, and a thirteen point two million dollar...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160509Date: June 22, 1994
This press release announces the World Bank's 1994 World Development Report on June 19, 1994. Investment in infrastructure delivers major benefits in economic growth if providers are given the right incentives....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160562Date: June 19, 1994
This report reviews Bank experience with lending for urban development, which is now entering its third decade. The review is based on the performance of the portfolio of 103 urban projects of a total...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 13117Date: June 14, 1994
This press release announces a three hundred eighty million dollar World Bank loan for a national highway project in China intended to reduce traffic congestion along a major north-south corridor on June...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160508Date: June 8, 1994
Three projects in Chile are outstanding examples of " best practices " in road sector management and lending, as noted in an OED's Performance audit report, No. 12983, dated April 21, 1994. The projects...
Type: BriefReport#: 28494Date: June 1, 1994Author:
Rachel Weaving (managing editor)
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