• Promoting policy reforms for effective transport services in COMESA countries
    Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been promoting reforms to help regional integration for effective transport services. The study indicated the need for better traffic management, in...
    Type: Brief Report#: 57120 Date: December 1, 1997
  • Indonesia - Country portfolio performance review (CPPR)
    This second country portfolio performance review (CPPR) conducted in May 1996 aimed at: (i) increasing the implementation and development effectiveness of the portfolio of GOI projects financed by the...
    Type: Country Portfolio Performance Review Report#: 105629 Date: December 1, 1997
  • Kazakhstan - Natural gas investment strategy study (Vol. 2 of 3) : Appendices 1 to 3
    Kazakhstan possesses a significant hydrocarbon resource base. The challenge facing Kazakhstan is how best to exploit its gas resource base and ensure that its gas resources deliver the maximum potential...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM199 Date: December 1, 1997
  • Motorization and the provision of roads in countries and cities
    Using panel data from 50 countries and 35 urban areas (covering a wide range of country incomes), the authors summarize trends in motorization and the provision of roads, and they examine the ratio of...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1842 Date: November 30, 1997 Author: Ingram, Gregory K. ; Zhi Liu
  • Transportation infrastructure investments and regional trade liberalization
    The author examines whether trade liberalization should create a greater incentive for countries to invest in transportation infrastructure. He pays special attention to the case of preferential trade...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1851 Date: November 30, 1997 Author: Bond,Eric W.
  • Conformed Copy - C3000 - Inland Waterways and Port Rehabilitation Project - Supplemental Letter 2
    Type: Side Letter Date: November 8, 1997 Author: Legal Dept of World Bank
  • Benin - Improving budget systems to increase poverty alleviation impact
    The Public Expenditure Review (PER) in Benin is considered an integral component of the structural adjustment program. The process is multi-year and multi-sectoral, in order to allow the government to...
    Type: Brief Report#: 59722 Date: November 1, 1997
  • Utility regulators : the independence debate
    Some governments are reluctant to surrender political control over regulatory decisions, and some who agree on the general desirability of independent agencies may question whether they are feasible in...
    Type: Viewpoint Report#: 17315 Date: October 31, 1997 Author: Smith,Warrick P.
  • Utility regulators : roles and responsibilities
    There are three main issues in defining a utility regulator's role: the scope of its coverage, its role in relation to ministers, and its role in relation to other regulatory entities such as the competition...
    Type: Viewpoint Report#: 17223 Date: October 31, 1997 Author: Smith,Warrick P.
  • Brazil - Multimodal freight transport : selected regulatory issues
    With railway restructuring and privatization and other sector reforms begun or being considered, this report overviews the remaining public policy reforms needed to foster an efficient, multimodal freight...
    Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 16361 Date: October 15, 1997
  • Seminar on railway concessioning in Africa - proceedings
    These are the proceedings of the Seminar on Railway Concessioning in Africa, which provide the overall theme of the conference, namely the concern that the railway experience in Africa shows a declining...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 27250 Date: October 14, 1997 Author: Akele, Ezan ; Thiam,Tidjane Cheick ; Thompson,Louis Stanley ; Posner,Henry ; Victo, Paul ; Monpert, Jean-Yves
  • Conformed Copy - C2989 - Road Transport Project - Development Credit Agreement
    Type: Credit Agreement Date: October 14, 1997 Author: Legal Dept of World Bank
  • Bangladesh – Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance
    Type: Brief Report#: 141516 Date: October 6, 1997
  • Village immersion : Mandaka, Cameroon
    During the period May 19-31, 1997, three Bank staff, Connie Luff, Philippe Callier, and Mark Blackden, took part in a village immersion program. They stayed for two weeks in the village of Mandaka, Far...
    Type: Brief Report#: 57077 Date: October 1, 1997
  • Mongolia - Economic Transition Support Project
    Type: Brief Report#: 140078 Date: October 1, 1997
  • Turkey - Agroindustry
    Type: Brief Report#: 139957 Date: October 1, 1997
  • Transport in Thailand : lessons for institutional development
    The World Bank has founded 25 transportation projects in Thailand since 1950. An OED Performance audit report, by Antti Talvitie, of five of these projects, approved between 1983 and 1990, found that they...
    Type: Brief Report#: 27793 Date: October 1, 1997 Author: Talvitie,Antti P.
  • The World Bank economic review 11(3)
    Rationing can backfire: the "day without a car" in Mexico City. Prices and protocols in public health care. Formal and informal regulation of industrial pollution: comparative evidence from Indonesia and...
    Type: Publication Report#: 17657 Date: September 30, 1997 Author: Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern ; Feyzioglu, Tarhan ; Hammer, Jeffrey S. ; Pargal,Sheoli ; Hettige,Hemamala S. ; Singh, Manjula ; Wheeler, David ; Taylor, Mark P. ; Sarno, Lucio ; Hoekman,Bernard M. ; Djankow, Simeon ; Haggarty,Luke Augustine ; Shirley,Mary M.
  • Vehicular air pollution : experiences from seven Latin American urban centers
    Latin America and the Caribbean is the most urbanized region in the developing world with a rapidly growing motor vehicle fleet. The number of urban areas with populations exceeding 1 million was 43 in...
    Type: Publication Report#: WTP373 Date: September 30, 1997 Author: Onursal,Bekir A. ; Gautam,Surhid P.
  • Brazil - hydro and thermal power sector study
    The objective of this study is to assess the economic viability of the inclusion of gas turbine and combined cycle power plants in the Brazilian South-Southeast (SSE) Electrical system over the timeframe...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM197 Date: September 30, 1997
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