This report covers the World Bank's
fiscal year 1997 (FY97), the fifth fiscal year of
ASTAE's operation. The report focuses on ASTAE's
activities and work program, staffing...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 89519Date: September 1, 1997
Renewable energy resources have
attracted renewed interest in both the developed and
developing world in the last five years. The main drivers
for this interest and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48201Date: September 1, 1997Author:
Adamantiades,Achilles G. ;
Eitel,Birgit
Economic theory and recent empirical
work suggest that when formal regulation of pollution is
absent or less than 100 percent effective, affected
communities are often...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 77253Date: September 1, 1997Author:
Hettige,Hemamala S. ;
Manjula Singh ;
Pargal,Sheoli ;
Wheeler, David
Increased energy consumption, generally
linked to an improved standard of living in many Asian
countries, also presages serious environmental consequences
at the local,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17108Date: August 31, 1997Author:
Downing, Robert J. ;
Ramankutty, Ramesh ;
Shah, Jitendra J.
This report draws on the experiences of
East Asia (Malaysia, Australia) and elsewhere (India, Chile)
to analyze the impediments to and prospects for private
financing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17093Date: August 31, 1997Author:
Kohli, Harinder ;
Mody, Ashoka ;
Walton, Michael [e
This Country Economic Memorandum
supports the Government's action plan of November 1996.
The plan spells out an ambitious program that includes
banking, enterprise,...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 16749Date: August 18, 1997
The most common compensation scheme used
to retrench labor in the context of privatization of
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) is the voluntary departures
scheme with...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP170Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Kouame,Auguste Tano
The author explains the drivers of the
information revolution - the decline in the cost of
transmitting information, the increase in the power of
computing, and the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17125Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Bond,James P.
This report covers the experience with
power sector reform in Hungary, Poland, and Ukraine. The
selection of these countries was based on their respective
progress as...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM196Date: July 31, 1997
The author looks at how the drivers of
the information revolution are transforming the structure of
the telecommunications industry. The end of natural
monopoly, the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 17126Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Bond,James P.
Controversy has mounted over the last
two decades about the role of dams in development. In the
1980s proposals for large dams began to be fundamentally
questioned by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 17875Date: July 31, 1997Author:
Dorcey, Tony ;
Steiner, Achim ;
Acreman, Michael ;
Orl
This Country Economic Memorandum aims to
assist Poland in further elaborating the economic aspects of
its integration strategy. The report focuses on formal
European...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 16858Date: July 15, 1997
The purpose of this study is to compare
and contrast a number of different cane payment systems
adopted by various industries, and to highlight the key
issues common...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52739Date: July 1, 1997
This report presents status of ongoing
activities, and contains information on all current Energy
Sector Assessment Program (ESMAP) tasks. This document is
circulated...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 47827Date: June 30, 1997
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