This country economic memorandum shows
that fiscal imbalances are key to understanding
Turkey's inflation problem, and its volatile growth.
Its findings suggest that...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 20657Date: September 15, 2000
Electrification resides at the heart of
development. Access to electricity by all South Africans is
one of the government's priorities. The government sees
the electrification...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 31931Date: September 1, 2000
Urban air pollution is a matter of
increasing concern in many of the newly independent states
(NIS). This study has reviewed the current status of three
principal areas...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20873Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Fodor,Martin ;
Kojima,Masami ;
Lovei,Magda
When energy sector reforms were
essentially completed in Bolivia in 1966, technical
assistance initiatives in rural energy and energy efficiency
picked up steam. Assistance...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM235Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Birhuett Garcia, Enrique ;
Guzman Salinas, Juan Carlos ;
Ruiz Michel, Antonio
International approaches to global
climate change; by Richard N. Cooper. Comments on Cooper; by
Kenneth J. Arrow. Understanding how contagion spreads; by
Rudiger Dornbusch,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 21164Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Arrow, Kenneth J. ;
Claessens, Stijn ;
Cooper,Richard N. ;
Dornbusch,Rudiger ;
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Hammer,Jeffrey S. ;
Narayan,Deepa ;
Pritchett,Lant Hayward ;
Srinivasan,Thirukodikaval N. ;
Williamson, John ;
Woolcock,Michael ;
Park,Yung Chul
This report summarizes the Bolivian
power sector reform experience from 1993 until the end of
1999. The reform of Bolivia's electric sector is
considered one of the...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM233Date: August 31, 2000
The study reviews the active market for
photo-voltaic (PV) solar home systems (SHSs) in Kenya, with
cumulative sales in excess of 100,000 units, and current
sales of...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 21361Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Duke, Richard D. ;
Graham, Shannon ;
Hankins,Mark ;
Ja
This report examines the following
questions: Which factors determine the choice of the
economically preferred heating options from a set of
alternatives? Under which...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM234Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Meyer, Anke ;
Mostert, Wolfgang
The report summarizes discussions of the
technical workshop on Uganda's power sector reform and
regulation strategy, whose objectives were to assist the
country's Power...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 21360Date: August 31, 2000
The main objective of this study was to
determine the market potential for photo-voltaic systems in
the remote areas of China, particularly in villages without
access...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 21359Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Voravate, Tuntivate ;
Barnes, Douglas F. ;
Bogach, V
The countries of Europe and Central Asia
(ECA) Region possess about 10 percent of the world's
oil, almost 40 percent of gas, and 5 percent of coal
reserves. This significant...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45372Date: August 1, 2000
This report, "Payments and
Securities Clearance and Settlement Systems in
Argentina", is one of several public reports in the
World Bank series, Western Hemisphere Payments...
Type: PublicationReport#: 46257Date: August 1, 2000
Prescription for the commercialization,
restructuring, and privatization of the energy sector are
now in fashion. They are actively promoted by donors but
fiercely decried...
This document reports the results of an
ESMAP project in Comoros that was carried out between summer
1997 and September 1999 and funded by the French Ministry of
Cooperation....
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM230Date: July 31, 2000
This document reports on the two-day
Workshop on "Options for Renewable Energy in
Vietnam" organized by the Institute of Energy and EVN
in collaboration with the Asia...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 21349Date: July 31, 2000
Reform of the energy sector and reform
of subsidies ideally go hand in hand. Structural, ownership,
and regulatory reforms aimed at making services more
efficient should...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21469Date: July 31, 2000Author:
Jadresic,Alejandro
By collaborating with the Global
Environment Facility (GEF), the International Finance
Corporation (IFC) has been able to finance many promising,
small, market-oriented...
This ESMAP study was a response to a
request by the World Bank's Latin America and Caribbean
(LAC) Regional Office for support in designing an innovative
project to...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM232Date: July 31, 2000
International Center Settlement
Investment Disputes (ICSID) growth in the caseload reflects
the proliferation of investment laws and treaties with
provisions setting...
Type: World Bank Annual ReportReport#: 41803Date: July 25, 2000
This report is an update of the Country
Assistance Review of Argentina completed in 1996 (report
15844). The prior report found a mixed outcome to the
Bank's assistance...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 20719Date: July 10, 2000
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