This paper addresses the question whether rail transport should be preferred over road-based modes because of its superior environmental characteristics, presumed to exist because rail is more energy efficient...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 16124Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Gwilliam,Kenneth M. ;
Shalizi,Zmarak ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley
Fiscal policies such as commodity taxes, subsidies, and price reforms, can complement direct pollution abatement instruments, and encourage fuel substitution. The note explores barriers to efficient abatement...
Type: BriefReport#: 21676Date: March 31, 1994Author:
Moss, Diana L. ;
Tybout, James R.
This press release announces The World Bank's one hundred fifty million dollar loan for Peru's transport rehabilitation project on March 18, 1994. The project objective is to address urgent transport infrastructure...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160481Date: March 18, 1994
This press release announces The World Bank's two hundred twenty million dollar loan for a Brazil state highway management project on March 17, 1994. The immediate objective of the project is to prevent...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160480Date: March 17, 1994
This press release announces The World Bank's approval of a fifty point five million credit for a road project in Nepal on March 15, 1994. The loan helps create a more efficient and cost-effective road...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160478Date: March 15, 1994
This press release announces The World Bank's three hundred fifty million dollar loan to Indonesia for the second highway sector project: paving the way for continued economic growth on March 11, 1994....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160477Date: March 11, 1994
The study reviews the intermediate means of transport in eastern Uganda, suggesting that ownership, and use of bicycles is a double-sided factor in meeting household needs, for it not only provides transportation,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 19833Date: February 28, 1994Author:
Malmberg Calvo, Cristina
This press release announces Yemenis help to outline investment project to boost the education sector on February 24, 1994. Over two hundred Yemeni private and public sector educational professionals contributed...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160450Date: February 24, 1994
This press release announces a three hundred million dollar loan to Russia to help them rehabilitate highways on February 17, 1994. This is the World Bank's first highway project for Russia and is designed...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160468Date: February 17, 1994
In a very short time Cambodia has made impressive progress in achieving peace and stability. Following UN-sponsored elections in May 1993 and three months of an interim government, a national government...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 12667Date: February 10, 1994
This report discusses the following aspects of Turkmenistan's economy: recent economic trends, economic prospects, reform program for economic stabilization, structural reform (private sector development...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 11647Date: February 7, 1994
In many reforming socialist economies decentralization of governmental functions to local governments and privatization of government-owned assets are fundamentally linked. Often the ownership of previously...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 26804Date: February 1, 1994Author:
Alm,James R. ;
Buckley,Robert M.
Reforming the financial management of public administrations is often at the core of the search for improved efficiency. When an administration delivers services of commercial or industrial nature, adapting...
Type: BriefReport#: 81610Date: February 1, 1994Author:
Juhel,Marc H. ;
Audige, Michel G.
Reducing the transport burdens or rural women, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), would release time and energy for productive and socially beneficial activities. This case study investigates the magnitude of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27217Date: February 1, 1994Author:
Cristina Malmberg Calvo
Understanding the costs of road construction, road maintenance and vehicle operation is essential to sound planning and management of road investments. While the infrastructure costs borne by road agencies...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP234Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Archando-Callao, Rodrigo S. ;
Faiz,Asif
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