This paper shows that the existing official budget of the Russian Federation, inherited from the central planning era, grossly misrepresents the government's revenues and outlays. It explains what the...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP137Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Le Houerou, Philippe ;
Gold, Elana ;
Katash, Stanisl
In the year of 1994, Arturo Israel was interviewed on behalf of the World Bank Group Archives oral history program by Richard Webb and Davesh Kapur. He was good observers and practitioners during the year...
There are over one and a half million km of roads in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including 554,000 km of main roads. Almost without exception, these roads are managed by bureaucratic government roads departments....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27216Date: January 1, 1994Author:
Heggie,Ian Graeme
For 40 years the World Bank has been assisting Brazil in its development efforts. In the 1950s and 1960s most of the Bank's loans were for energy, transport, and heavy industry, helping to support a period...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13496Date: January 1, 1994
This press release announces the World Bank's loan of twenty million dollars to Belize for The City Infrastructure Project. The objectives aim to improve the health and safety of the city dwellers, preserve...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160397Date: January 1, 1994
This publication describes the process by which a training forum became the catalyst for Sri Lankan government, industry, and environmental professionals to develop and begin implementing an action plan...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17943Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Pilapitiya, Sumith ;
Stern, Stephen ;
Baijal, Hemant
The paper reviews analytically the issues concerning the involvement of the government in infrastructure and industrial policy in South Asia. It does so both in order to: (i) see what guidance can be offered...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP134Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Seabright,Paul B.
Rail transportation has often been wrongly viewed as a natural monopoly which should be provided by the government and for which private provision is not approriate. In recent years, however, it has become...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 12727Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Galenson,Alice C. ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley
The authors try to gauge why the GATT dispute settlement process has, to date, been so ineffective in disciplining the use of antidumping measures. Focusing on the five cases in which panels have completed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1232Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Finger, J. Michael ;
Fung, K.C. ;
DEC
This review of the transport sector operations concentrates on the performance of the Fiscal Year (FY) 93 portfolio and its development impact. Section II describes briefly the compostion of FY93 portfolio...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 18185Date: December 31, 1993
The Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) is the executing agency for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) Project, who commissioned this study to be undertaken in three phases....
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 18894Date: December 31, 1993
This press release announces a World Bank sixty-five million dollar loan to Paraguay to improve roads on December 22, 1993. This is the first World Bank-assisted operation in Paraguay's transport sector...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160456Date: December 22, 1993
This press release announces a World Bank sixty million dollar loan to Panama to assist in a road rehabilitation program on December 21, 1993. The project includes improvement of the overall transport...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160457Date: December 21, 1993
Since the open door policy was initiated in 1979, the Southeast Coastal Region has experienced phenomenal rates of growth in foreign trade, averaging over 20 percent per year. The region was considerably...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 11771Date: December 10, 1993
The operational performance of a port is generally measured in terms of the speed with which a vessel is dispatched, the rate at which cargo is handled, and the duration that cargo stays in port prior...
Type: BriefReport#: 81609Date: December 1, 1993Author:
Chung,Kek Choo
Car and locomotive management control systems can be powerful tools to improve utilization and thereby postpone capital investments in rolling stock and motive power. This note describes how to evaluate...
Type: BriefReport#: 36012Date: December 1, 1993Author:
Rebelo,Jorge M.
In 1992 and 1993, an international of six experts in road safety visited Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia to assess the situation of road safety and recommend actions...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 15970Date: November 30, 1993Author:
Gerondeau, Christian ;
Bouzigues, Jean-Baptiste ;
Ellinghaus, Dieter ;
Hobbs, Adrian ;
Lowe,Peter ;
Wall,John W.
This report reflects the findings of a research effort within the Bank's Transport, Water, and Urban Development Department which was aimed at developing a clearer understanding of the crisis in the international...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP220Date: November 30, 1993Author:
Peters,Hans J.
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