The purpose of this note is to brief the Executive Directors on the sources and uses of International Development Association (IDA) funds during FY98. The note responds to the request of the IDA deputies...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 68819Date: September 4, 1998
This article describes an annual database of physical infrastructure stocks for a cross section of 152 countries for 1950-95. The database includes estimates of six measures of infrastructure: the number...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 77279Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Canning,David J.
The Regulatory Reform and Private Enterprise Division of The Economic Development Institute (EDIRP) conducted a core course on privatization and regulation of transport services in Washington, DC from...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49426Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Estache,Antonio
The World Bank's role in Sub-Saharan Africa's urban transport sub-sector has evolved in the last few years. Recent projects concerned specifically with urban transport (e.g., in Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal),...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27254Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Bultynck,Patrick
Until the late 1970s, the Finnish Road and Waterways Administration (RWA) operated as a highly centralized agency. Then RWA started its gradual reforms. In the mid 1980s, RWA began evolving into a market-oriented...
Type: BriefReport#: 22587Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Ojala, Lauri ;
Sirvio, Esko
In a hub and spoke system of containerized seaborne trade, cargo to a region is delivered first to a primary hub port and then transported to its final destination, whether by sea, rail, road or inland...
Experiences in several Latin American countries, show the promises, and challenges of contracting out road maintenance, based on performance standards, rather than on the traditional way, which is based...
Type: BriefReport#: 22586Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Zietlow,Gunter
This news release, dated July 15, 1998, announces the World Bank approved a total of 142 million dollars to support four development projects in Egypt during fiscal year 1998 (July 1997 to June 1998).
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161832Date: July 15, 1998
This news release, dated July 15, 1998, announces the World Bank approved a total of 222 million dollars to support development projects in Tunisia during fiscal year 1998 (July 1997 to June, 1998).
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161830Date: July 15, 1998
Providing effective and efficient infrastructure underpins all attempts to reduce poverty. Trade is the engine of economic growth, and reliable and efficient transport is essential for successful trade....
Type: BriefReport#: 57136Date: July 1, 1998Author:
Watson,Peter
This paper presents a framework for improving management and financing of local government roads and community roads and paths based on two distinct owner categories and a redefined partnership between...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP411Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Calvo, Cristina Malmberg
The note examines the concession technique in railway operations, for the first time used in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso, who jointly concessioned the Abidjan-Ouagadougou Railway...
Lead is an extremely toxic substance. The phaseouts of lead-based, octane-enhancing gasoline additives is widely recognized as a technically feasible measure to reduce ambient environmental lead concentrations...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 20010Date: June 30, 1998Author:
Lovei, Magda
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