This report discusses the remarks
delivered by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World
Bank. He discusses that in many parts of the world, access
to water distinguishes...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101399Date: March 22, 2000Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
This news release, dated March 21, 2000,
announces the World Bank and the United Nations Interim
Administration in Kosovo (UNMIK) signed a United States
(U.S.) 5 million...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161922Date: March 21, 2000
The report reviews Papua New
Guinea's economic, and social development in the 1990s,
and provides a country assistance evaluation on the
Bank's contribution to development....
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 20183Date: March 6, 2000
The objective of the private sector
reconstruction credit (at an advanced state of preparation)
is to support the Government of Eritrea's strategy to
revive the country's...
This paper discusses issues and problems
related to private sector involvement in China's power
section in two parts. The first part consists of a summary
of the conference...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP406Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Zhao,Jianping
This book was developed as part of a
five-year program of policy seminars on economic development
and environmental management as well as economic
globalization and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20262Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Furtado, Jose I. dos R. ;
Belt, Tamara ;
Jammi, Rama
This study first reviews the cost of
grid extension in a number of countries. It then identifies
ways to reduce costs by examining how they are affected by a
variety...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM227Date: February 29, 2000
The report summarizes the British
experience in the electricity industry, from its
privatization in 1989, until 1998. It reviews the principles
of private ownership,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM226Date: February 29, 2000Author:
Littlechild,Stephen C
The paper seeks to provide a basis for
identifying common issues, and operational synergies between
monitoring, and evaluation capacity development (M&ECD),
and governance...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 21154Date: February 28, 2000
In many countries of Sub-Saharan Africa
energy sector planning has long been something of a
paradoxical exercise in the context of modern as opposed to
traditional fuels...
Type: BriefReport#: 54845Date: February 1, 2000Author:
Roddis, Suzanne
This report documents the performance of
the Asia Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE) for the World
Bank's fiscal year 1999 (FY99), the seventh fiscal year
of ASTAE's...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 89521Date: February 1, 2000
More and more African governments are
beginning to realize that the old ways of state ownership of
an economy's 'commanding heights' cannot be
sustained. Simply put,...
This paper is one of a series of
background papers to the Energy Sector Strategy currently
being prepared by the Energy, Mining and Telecommunications
Sector Board....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 31867Date: February 1, 2000Author:
Bogach,Victoria Susan ;
Cabraal,Ravindra Anil ;
Heijndermans,Enno
This Annual Review of Development
Effectiveness focuses considerably, on the cooperative
approach of the Comprehensive Development Framework, which
captures the consensus...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 19905Date: January 19, 2000
The paper examines the bottlenecks,
other than the technical and economic feasibility of energy
trade projects, which have prevented in the past a greater
development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52574Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Khelil, Chakib;
The Supplemental Tables to the 1999
Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE), supports
the main report, 20180. The report describes the outcome,
sustainability,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 27612Date: January 1, 2000
The World Bank's program on
"Clean Transportation Fuels for Air Quality Improvement
in Central Asia and the Caucasus" was initiated to
assess the changing transport...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21297Date: January 1, 2000
An adequate supply of reliable and low
cost energy is essential for economic growth. In almost all
developing countries the state plays a predominant role in
the energy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52578Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Khelil, Chakib;
This report explores the role of energy
policy in reducing the environmental consequences of
transportation in developing countries. The report's
central thesis is that...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM224Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Krupnick, Alan ;
Harrington, Winston
Among the potential effects of fossil
fuel combustion are urban air pollution, acid rain, and
changes in global climate. A study of six cities in
developing countries...
Type: BriefReport#: 20760Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Lvovsky, Kseniya ;
Hughes, Gordon
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