Infrastructure's interactions with and importance to the economies of developing countries have not been fully understood. This is evident in the Bank's approach to sector work in infrastructure and in...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP232Date: November 30, 1993Author:
Creightney, Cavelle D.
This report is an evaluation of Russia's transportation sector. It proposes courses of action to be taken to arrest the transportation decline and to manage its transition to a system more suited to a...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12345Date: November 9, 1993Author:
Holt,Jane E.
This press release announces the World Bank's approval of a one hundred million dollar loan for Venezuela's Urban Transportation Project on November 8, 1993. The project intends to improve the quality...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160392Date: November 8, 1993
This paper provides an overview of a number of major legal factors that discourage foreign investment in productive activities in Brazil. It identifies restrictions on foreigners and non-residents arising...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP132Date: October 31, 1993Author:
Fischer, Georges Charles
The report presents the findings, and recommendations of the Refrigeration Sector Working Group, based on: an overview of hydrocarbon, and other flammable refrigerant applications in the domestic refrigeration...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 22771Date: October 31, 1993
Bangkok's urban transport crisis. A tribute to Jorge Hardoy. Urban transport in Lagos. Latin American mass transit. Transport and the environment in Santiago de Chile. The effects of Warsaw's rising car...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17442Date: October 31, 1993Author:
Stickland, Rod ;
Cohen, Michael A. ;
Bolade, Tunji ;
H
This press release announces a six hundred fifty-seven million dollar Blueprint for Modernization Project in Shanghai, China on October 15, 1993. The project intends to revitalize an aging and overburdened...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160384Date: October 15, 1993
All railways aim to improve management and operational efficiency and effectiveness. One of the dilemmas faced by railway managers in doing so is to set fair and realistic targets. The Transport Division...
Type: BriefReport#: 36011Date: October 1, 1993Author:
Fraser, Julie M. ;
Thompson, Luis S.
Urban economic and social development in the Third World often requires involuntary displacement and relocation of various groups of residents. This process has received little research by urban sociologists...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP152Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Cernea,Michael M.
The infrastructure sectors have played a prominent role in the Bank's efforts to assist developing countries, accounting for 41 percent of Bank lending over the past four and a half decades. In the last...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 12475Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Galenson, Alice ;
ESD
Many developing countries are being encouraged to shift toward increased processing and exports of domestically produced natural resource based products now exported in primary form. But in many major...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1174Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Safadi, Raed ;
Yeats, Alexander
The economy of the Occupied Territories (OT) is currently in turmoil. Income levels have stagnated over the past decade; unemployment and underemployment are rising rapidly; public infrastructure and social...
Type: PublicationReport#: 12360Date: September 30, 1993
This paper presents an examination of linkages between infrastructure and economic development based on both formal and empirical research and informal case studies. Its main thesis is that economic benefits...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP213Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Kessides,C. Fallert
This report was one of the first detailed studies of enterprise finances in a country of Central and Eastern Europe during transition. It is based on enterprise data collected monthly by the Polish Central...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 21951Date: September 30, 1993Author:
Gomulka, Stanislaw
For its domestic transport needs, Morocco relies on all modes of transport, including road, rail, coastal shipping and aviation. Shipping and aviation dominate international traffic, although there is...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 9712Date: September 20, 1993
This press release announces a just completed World Bank assessment of the economies of the West Bank and Gaza strip underscores the urgent need for a major upgrading of the physical and social infrastructure...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160530Date: September 10, 1993
The main objective of these guidelines is to advise on how to approach the complex issue of competitiveness in trade, and on how to achieve cost savings in logistics by reducing the time of immobilization...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27229Date: September 1, 1993Author:
De Castro,Carlos F.
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