This news release, dated October 22,
1998, announces the Executive Board of the World Bank
approved a United States (U.S.) 2 billion dollars second
structural adjustment...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161836Date: October 22, 1998
For Madagascar the challenge is clear:
unless the country can close the gap between performance and
potential, poverty will continue to affect a large share of
the Malagasy...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 18473Date: October 14, 1998
This Bank's World newsletter
includes some of the following headings: Yuuki tells the
world trees are cool; fasten your seatbelts, by Kevin
Rafferty; Kirmani: engineer...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56999Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Cullen,Timothy W. B. ;
Drattell,Alan M. ;
Hovde, Kate ;
Parchuc De Jeria Figueroa,Ana Maria ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Sopher,Jamil
Private participation in electricity
industries has grown substantially since 1990, with
electricity becoming one of the leading infrastructure
sectors in attracting...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18714Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Izaguirre Alvarado Bradley,Ada Karina
This study uses the term public goods
for air quality and the global climate, not because the
control should be by the government the government is anyway
just a conduit...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1975Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Jian Xie
The Greenhouse Gas Assessment Handbook
is designed as a reference manual for estimating the net
impact of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, that result from
World Bank...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 24619Date: September 30, 1998
Within the focus for energy reforms, to
improve energy efficiency by fostering competition, and
market-driven institutional arrangements, the Bank organized
the Second...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM207Date: September 30, 1998
This volume aims to provide a
comprehensive description of one country's experience
of public finance reform in a former socialist economy. Its
ambition is to make the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 18435Date: September 30, 1998
These remarks were given via
teleconference to the Prime Minister's Jubilee Business
Summit in Jerusalem. They touch on economic harmony in the
region, as well as the...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 99954Date: September 28, 1998Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
This report concerns the International
Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID). Fiscal
year 1998 was a notable one for the Centre in many respects.
In this...
Type: World Bank Annual ReportReport#: 41801Date: September 18, 1998
This is a section of a financial
management course titled Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
and Local Financial Management Course: Case Studies. There
are two dramatic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 93891Date: September 13, 1998Author:
Ebel, Robert ;
Varfalavi, Istvan ;
Varga, Sandor
As is evident from public finance
principles, redistribution objectives do not influence
environmental policies if there are other, costless means of
redistribution....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1961Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Eskeland, Gunnar ;
Chingying Kong
When privatization is not feasible or
palatable, developing country governments seeking to improve
the performance of state enterprises are often negotiating
performance...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18441Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Shirley,Mary M.
The authors discuss the impact of the
East Asian financial crisis on the power sectors of four of
the most severely affected economies-Indonesia, Malaysia,
the Philippines,...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18436Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Gray, R. David ;
Schuster, John
Title IV of the 1990 US Clean Air Act
Amendments established a market for transferable sulfur
dioxide emission allowances among electric utilities. The
market offers...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1966Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Carlson, Curtis ;
Burtraw, Dallas ;
Cropper, Maureen ;
Palmer, Karen L.
This Energy and Mining newsletter
includes the following articles: Excellence in project
quality at entry; Europe Central Asia (ECA) energy strategy
forum with external...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 18395Date: August 28, 1998
This news release, dated August 27,
1998, announces the World Bank approved a global environment
facility (GEF) grant of United States (U.S.) 5.8 million
dollars for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161794Date: August 27, 1998
Emissions from fossil fuel combustion,
especially coal combustion, are major contributors to air
pollution. Concentrations of suspended particles and sulfur
dioxide...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26348Date: August 1, 1998Author:
Masaki Takahashi
As a part of the Living Standards
Measurement Study, this paper presents a critical overview
of alternative approaches towards setting poverty lines,
which: a) define...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM133Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Ravallion,Martin
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