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Calendar of aid coordination meetings 1993

This report presents revised schedule of aid coordination meetings for 1993 as of December 31, 1992.
Type: Board Report Report#: 86471 Date: December 31, 1992
Investment in human capital : schooling supply constraints in rural Ghana

Human capital investment is usually modeled in an intertemporal optimization framework in which households or individuals maximize the present value of life-time utility. The main cost emphasized in these...
Type: Publication Report#: LSM93 Date: December 31, 1992 Author: Lavy,Victor Chaim
Economic fundamentals of road pricing : a diagrammatic analysis

The author presents a conceptual framework for road pricing based on a rigorous diagrammatic - but nonmathematical - framework derived from first (economic) principles. His analysis of traditional arguments...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1070 Date: December 31, 1992 Author: Hau,Timothy Doe-Kwong
How to reduce pollution at low cost

A combination of regulations, incentives, and fuel taxes is a good solution for reducing pollution. To reduce emissions by renewing or improving equipment, some measures work best through regulation and...
Type: Brief Report#: 21631 Date: December 31, 1992
Congestion charging mechanisms for roads : an evaluation of current practice

The author explores 20 criteria for a good road pricing system and presents case studies illustrating the costs, revenues, and benefits of alternative congestion charging mechanisms. The author finds...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1071 Date: December 31, 1992 Author: Hau,Timothy Doe-Kwong
Energy efficiency in developing countries

A review of World Bank experience in the energy sector of developing countries shows why energy efficiency is low and what the gains from greater efficiency might be. Many individual project components...
Type: Brief Report#: 21634 Date: December 31, 1992
Announcement of Brazil State Highway Management Project on December 23, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans to Brazil, thirty-eight million US dollars to the State of Alagoas, and fifty million US dollars to the State of Santa Catarina, for State...
Type: Announcement Report#: 162807 Date: December 23, 1992
Announcement of Seychelles Environment and Transport Project on December 23, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of four million five hundred thousand US dollars to Seychelles for Environment and transport project on December 23, 1992.
Type: Announcement Report#: 162809 Date: December 23, 1992
Announcement of Hungary Roads Project on December 23, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of ninety million US dollars to Hungary for Roads Project on December 23, 1992.
Type: Announcement Report#: 162810 Date: December 23, 1992
Announcement of Venezuela Highway Management Project on December 23, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred fifty million US dollars to Venezuela for Highway management project on December 23, 1992.
Type: Announcement Report#: 162808 Date: December 23, 1992
Announcement of China Shapes Up for Shipping Needs on December 23, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred fifty million US dollars for China to meet the burgeoning demands of trade to improve facilities at Shanghai Port, already...
Type: Announcement Report#: 162806 Date: December 23, 1992
Announcement of World Bank Lends Three Hundred Ninety-Four Million US Dollars to Mexico to Help Reduce Pollution and Improve Labor Productivity on December 15, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans totalling three hundred ninety-four million US dollars for Mexico to help reduce air pollution in Mexico city metropolitan area, and to...
Type: Announcement Report#: 162800 Date: December 15, 1992
Announcement of Peru Privatization Technical Assistance Project on December 14, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars to Peru for Privatization technical assistance project on December 14, 1992.
Type: Announcement Report#: 162801 Date: December 14, 1992
Announcement of Phlippines Seeks World Competitiveness on December 11, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of two hundred million US dollars for Philippines to support integration of the country’s economy with the international system, signalling...
Type: Announcement Report#: 162799 Date: December 11, 1992
Measuring the effects of urban transportation policies on the environment : a survey of models

Mandating emission control devices in new cars is only one of the most obvious steps to address the problem of vehicle emissions. Others range from taxes on gasoline and parking to incentives to scrap...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1030 Date: November 30, 1992 Author: Krupnick,Alan Jeff
A new approach to evaluating trade policy

The authors introduce a new measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, to measure the restrictiveness of a system of trade protection. They propose an alternative to the commonly used ad hoc indexes of...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1022 Date: November 30, 1992 Author: Anderson, James E. ; Neary, J. Peter
Zambia - Financial performance of the government-owned transport sector

The overriding issue arising from this report is the need to reduce the transport sector's drain on the government's overall fiscal revenues. The drain took the form of injections of cash and equity, overdrafts...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 10667 Date: November 30, 1992
Announcement of China Seeks to Remove Transport Bottlenecks on November 18, 1992

This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans totalling three hundred sixty million US dollars for Indonesia to relieve traffic congestion in Guangdong Province, a leading export centre,...
Type: Announcement Report#: 162788 Date: November 18, 1992
Announcement of Russia and World Bank Sign Loan Agreement on November 16, 1992

This press release announces on November 16, 1992, the Russian Federation and the World Bank signed an agreement for a six hundred million US dollars loan approved by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors...
Type: Announcement Report#: 163185 Date: November 16, 1992
Chile - Infrastructure Strategy Note

Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 11234 Date: November 10, 1992