The Niger Delta is one of the
world's largest wetlands and includes by far the
largest mangrove forest in Africa. Within this extremely
valuable ecosystem, oil activities...
Type: BriefReport#: 27158Date: December 1, 1995Author:
J.Singh, D. Moffat, O. Linden
The purpose of this study is to address
two main areas of concern regarding the control of air
pollution in developing countries. The first involves the
question of...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM177Date: November 30, 1995
This paper provides a description of how
forty three firms in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
have been adjusting to the transformation of economic system
since...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 21959Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Estrin, Saul ;
Gelb, Alan ;
Singh, Inderjit
The former Yugoslav Republic of
Macedonia, supported by a World Bank policy-based loan, is
trying a new approach to reform its enterprises. Enterprises
will still be...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16921Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Pernia, Joseph ;
Ramachandran, S.
The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) is an
effort to promote development and trade in natural gas in
the countries along West Africa's coastline from the
Senegal River to...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17628Date: November 30, 1995Author:
Shirazi,Mohsen
The cost of photovoltaic (PV) systems
continues to fall. At the same time, experience is being
rapidly gained in their practical use in the developing
world. It is now...
The collapse of the assistance from the
former Soviet Union in 1990 pushed Mongolia's economy
into deep recession and the energy sector to the brink of
crisis. Chronic...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 14586Date: November 3, 1995
Poor urban households in developing
countries spend a significant proportion of their limited
cash incomes, often as much as 15 to 22 percent, on energy,
and much of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 76070Date: November 1, 1995Author:
Barnes, Douglas
Concession-type arrangements are well
suited for privatizing sectors with monopolistic
characteristics. Under this approach, the state (or
municipality or other public...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16919Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Guislain,Pierre ;
Kerf,Michel
This is the final report of the Biomass
Gasification Monitoring Program (BGMP) sponsored by the
joint UNDP/World Bank Energy Management Assessment Programme
(ESMAP)....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP296Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Stassen, Hubert E.
Privatized in 1984, British
Telecommunications (BT) is the longest-standing privatized
utility in the United Kingdom. Comparing BT's stock
market returns over a long...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16920Date: October 31, 1995Author:
DNES, ANTONY
The report covers the FY95 operational
activities of the Bank's Asia Alternative Energy
Unit's (ASTAE) work program, which includes project
pipeline development, in-country...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 22937Date: October 31, 1995
This paper focuses on a few selected
environmental and natural resources issues in the Middle
East and North Africa (MNA) region that may have major
implications in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 14840Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Larsen,Bjorn Klavdy
Project financing of independent power
producers (IPPs) may seem the only solution to the
intractable problem of getting private credit to the power
sector. In the developing...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16916Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Jechoutek,Karl Georg ;
Lamech,Ranjit J.
This speech by James D. Wolfensohn,
President of the World Bank was given in Moscow, Russia on
October 27, 1995. He spoke in brief about Russia's
economic development....
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 136846Date: October 27, 1995Author:
Wolfensohn,James D.
Through this report, the Director
General, Operations Evaluation informs the Board of
Executive Directors about the state of evaluation in the
Bank and IFC. In view...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 15049Date: October 25, 1995
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