The authors analyze inequality in future
carbon emissions using a group decomposition of the Gini
index. Business-as-usual projections to the year 2100 for
135 countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2084Date: March 31, 1999Author:
Heil, Mark T. ;
Wodon, Quentin T.
Collectively or individually, countries
are likely to implement policies designed to limit
greenhouse gas emissions. Experience from tradable quota
schemes suggests...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2090Date: March 31, 1999Author:
Larson, Donald F. ;
Parks, Paul
The main objectives of the study are to:
a) assess options and formulate a strategy for power trade
among the Greater Mekong countries, paying special attention
to the...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 19067Date: March 31, 1999
Over the last ten years, the average
cost and construction time of greenfield fossil fuel-fired
power plants has been reduced by approximately 50, even as
their performance...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 30524Date: March 1, 1999Author:
O'Leary,Donal T. ;
Paul, Ingo ;
Taud, Robert
A scorecard for energy reform in
developing countries; by Robert Bacon. Private
participation in the transmission and distribution of
natural gas - Recent trends; by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29776Date: March 1, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Gomez-Lobo, Andres and Foster, Vivien ;
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Juris,Andrej ;
Law, Peter L. and Svensson, Bent R. ;
Law, Peter L. and de Franco, Nelson ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Lovei,Laszlo ;
Rasmussen,Karen T. ;
Shepherd, Rob ;
Sinclair,Scott ;
Smith, Suzanne [editor]
A scorecard for energy reform in
developing countries; by Robert Bacon. Private
participation in the transmission and distribution of
natural gas - Recent trends; by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29776Date: March 1, 1999Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Gomez-Lobo, Andres and Foster, Vivien ;
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre ;
Juris,Andrej ;
Law, Peter L. and Svensson, Bent R. ;
Law, Peter L. and de Franco, Nelson ;
Lehmann, Peter ;
Lovei,Laszlo ;
Rasmussen,Karen T. ;
Shepherd, Rob ;
Sinclair,Scott ;
Smith, Suzanne [editor]
This report presents the status of
ongoing activities for all current Energy Sector Assessment
Program (ESMAP) projects as of the period ending December
31, 1998. Its...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 47831Date: March 1, 1999
This carbon back-casting study was
carried out in response to recommendations by the Federation
of American Scientists (FAS), and uses the methodology
developed under...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM212Date: February 28, 1999
This session addresses the assignment of
expenditure responsibilities. It begins by laying a broad
framework of the importance of a decentralized strategy when
approaching...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 93880Date: February 24, 1999Author:
Vazquez, Jorge-Martinez
This session provides an introduction to
the alternative forms of service delivery including:
contracting out services to private firms, franchising
services to the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 93879Date: February 24, 1999Author:
McMaster, Jim
These reports constitute the proceedings
of the Joint Commonwealth Secretariat and the World Bank
Task Force on the Conference on the Small States, held in
St. Lucia,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 19277Date: February 19, 1999Author:
Stevens, Christopher ;
McQueen, Matthew ;
Kennan, Ja
This is a statement by Khalid H. Alyahya
at the meeting of February 18, 1999 concerning the Country
Assistance Strategy Progress Report and Andhra Pradesh Power
Sector...
Type: Executive Director's StatementReport#: 86770Date: February 17, 1999Author:
Alyahya, Khalid H.
This article, which synthesizes the
results of more than 140 economic models analyzing the
causes of tropical deforestation, raises significant doubts
about many conventional...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76632Date: February 1, 1999Author:
Angelsen,Arild ;
Kaimowitz,David
Scandinavia, where countries have traded
power for decades, has the world's most developed
international market for electricity. Recently the trading
system has changed...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19063Date: January 31, 1999Author:
CARLSSON, LENNART
The present annual report aims at
disseminating the current thinking, on how developing
countries can best meet the challenge of energy services
provision, to as many...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 19837Date: January 31, 1999Author:
McCarthy, Eugene ;
Martin, Felix [editors]
This volume is intended as a potential
tool for Central and Eastern European policy makers inside
and outside the public sphere who are trying to craft a new
model of...
The note focuses on the global effects
of land degradation, but emphasizes other important levels
of land degradation: at the field level, it may result in
reduced productivity;...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20321Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Pagiola,Stefano P.
This technical guide seeks to
demonstrate that, by encouraging small, continuous
improvements in landfill siting, construction, and
operation, the accumulative effect...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP426Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Rushbrook, Philip ;
Pugh, Michael
This book has been prepared as part of
the World Bank~^!!^s Global Program on Capital Markets
Development at the Sub-national Level, which provides a
framework to assess...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 20233Date: January 1, 1999
This report discusses the
accomplishments of the GEF through June 30, 1999, and
highlights new GEF initiatives leading into the 21st
century. Its success to date stems...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 20763Date: January 1, 1999
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