The trading of rights to emit carbon
dioxide has not officially been sanctioned by the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, but it is of
interest to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2019Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Ellerman, A. Denny ;
Jacoby, Henry D. ;
Decaux, Annelene
Many governments have concluded joint
ventures with private investors that contain preemptive
rights contractually restricting the rights to transfer
ownership of a...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18723Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Frémond,Olivier ;
Nellis,John R.
Vietnam remains one of the world's
poorest countries. The energy sector can, however, provide a
foundation for future economic growth, since oil and coal
exports account...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 19037Date: December 31, 1998
Reform of the natural gas industry in
Ukraine started a year later than reform of the power
industry. Because gas reform had no blueprint, its direction
has remained...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18962Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
Most of Colombia's general cargo
trade has been handled by four public ports: Barranquilla,
Cartagena, and Santa Marta on the Atlantic coast and
Buenaventura on the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18924Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Gaviria,Juan
Restructuring Ukraine's coal
industry has been even more difficult and politicized than
reforming its electricity and gas industries. Coal reform
has divided Parliament...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18996Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
Vietnam remains one of the world's
poorest countries. The energy sector can, however, provide a
foundation for future economic growth, since oil and coal
exports account...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 19037Date: December 31, 1998
Although reform of Ukraine's
electricity sector is far from complete, the experience so
far shows that ingrained attitudes are harder to change than
written rules of...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18941Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
This Bank's World newsletter
includes some of the following headings: Rio street artist
shows the brutality of poverty, by Kevin Rafferty; basic
economics to solve parking...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57001Date: December 3, 1998Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna
This report covers the World Bank's
fiscal year 1998 (FY98), the sixth fiscal year of
ASTAE's operation. The report focuses on ASTAE's.
The report focuses on ASTAE's...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 89520Date: December 1, 1998
The objective of this Country Economic
Memorandum (CEM) is to identify key areas affecting the
acceleration of growth and investment over the medium term
in the Macedonian...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 18537Date: November 30, 1998
Should a conceding authority auction off
or negotiate a contract for an exclusive private
infrastructure deal? Advocates of negotiation often argue
that a formal competition...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18719Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
This report outlines a strategy that
maximizes the impact of World Bank Group activities on
development of the energy sector in the Europe and Central
Asia region in...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP393Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Lovei,Laszlo
The Inspection Panel (IP) was created as
a means for increasing the transparency and accountability
of the Bank's operations. It is an independent
instrument responding...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18654Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Umana, Alvaro [Editor]
The longer a concession lasts, the less
effect the initial rounds of bidding will have on the terms
of the concession over its full life. Much more influential
will...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18721Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
Private investors are considering
several large-scale oil and gas production, pipeline, and
cross-border pipeline projects in developing countries,
including in West...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18717Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Sinclair,Scott
This report presents the proceedings of
a five-day workshop organized by the World Bank Asia
Alternative Energy Program (ASTAE). The World Bank is
providing technical...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP391Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Piscitello, E. Scott ;
Bogach, V. Susan
Renewable energy is a feasible
technological option in sustainable energy. Rusting
monuments to past failures attest that his
"autonomous" technology must operate within...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26344Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Barnes, Douglas ;
Jechoutek, Karl ;
Young, Andrew
This paper points out that Governments
are facing increasing fiscal risks and uncertainties. Two of
the reasons for this situation are: first, the international
integration...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1989Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Brixi,Hana
The study responds to the establishment
of the Energy Regulatory Authority (ERA) in Poland, and the
restructuring of its energy sector. The relationship of
energy policy...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM208Date: October 31, 1998
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