New strategies, strengthened
partnerships; by Robert T. Watson. The Bank's evolving
environmental agenda - achievements and future challenges;
by Magda Lovei, and Anjali...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20104Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Watson, Robert T. ;
Mercier, Jean-Roger ;
Lovei, Mag
Developing countries are now recovering
from the worst ravages of the financial crisis of 1997-98.
However, the recovery is both uneven and fragile, and many
countries...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20039Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Nabli, Mustapha ;
Shaw, William ;
Riordan, Mick ;
Mody
This report evaluates the performance of
Bank's lending and non-lending activities in
India's energy sector. In particular it assesses the
impact that changes of the...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 19972Date: December 23, 1999
This news release, dated December 22,
1999, announces the World Bank approved a United States
(U.S.) 140 million dollars electricity transmission
rehabilitation loan...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161863Date: December 22, 1999
During the 1990s private sponsors have
participated in projects involving eighty-nine airports in
twenty-three developing countries, with investment totaling
US$5.4...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19933Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Da Silva,Gisele F.
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by James D. Wolfensohn, President of the World
Bank. He discusses that nothing is more important to us, at
the World Bank,...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 99979Date: November 2, 1999Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
The study reviews Nepal's
development strategy in the 1990s, providing a country
assistance evaluation on the Bank's contribution to
development. While a "fragile" macro-economic
...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 19850Date: November 1, 1999
Events such as the NAFTA and the
completion of the Uruguay Round have raised concern over the
impact of trade liberalization on the environment. It is
believed that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 28158Date: November 1, 1999Author:
Dean,Judith M.
The year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug could
potentially affect digital control systems and computer
hardware/software that rely on date-dependent calculations
for their proper...
This is a brief report addressing
India's strategy to attain an environmentally,
sustainable development as it meets future power needs.
While India's large reserves...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21521Date: October 31, 1999
This country economic memorandum, one of
the three reports produced jointly by the Bank, the Ministry
of Economy, and the International Center for Policy Studies,
defines...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 20325Date: October 31, 1999
The report examines three case studies
in Tanzania, and presents the findings for hydropower
development, based on cost-effective schemes designs,
intended to benefit...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 25218Date: October 31, 1999
This is a summary report of a brief
review of ESMAP's investment in renewable energy
between the years 1993 and 1998 that was carried out as part
of the normal supervisory...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM223Date: October 31, 1999
Tradecan is designed to analyze national
and regional competitiveness in commodities and manufactured
exports. It allows users to calculate market shares for each
three-...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29777Date: October 1, 1999
This annual report covers the calendar
1998 activities of the Energy Sector Management Assistance
Programme (ESMAP), jointly sponsored by the United Nations
Development...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 19667Date: September 30, 1999
This study evaluates progress,
identifies barriers, and proposes solutions to accelerate
access to electricity for rural people in Uganda, and is
based on the findings...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM221Date: September 30, 1999
The goal of this study is to develop the
first steps of a Bank strategy for restraining greenhouse
gas (GHG) emission from transportation. The study addressees
the issue...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 20023Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Schipper, Lee ;
Marie-Lilliu, Celine
Any place where municipal solid waste is
dumped or disposed of in large quantities is a bioreactor
generating leachate and gases. When generated in a landfill,
this...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 19791Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Johannessen, Lars Mikkel
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