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Conformed Copy - L3633 - Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Transport Decentralization Project - CBTU Project Agreement

Type: Project Agreement Date: October 14, 1993 Author: Legal Dept of World Bank
Conformed Copy - L3633 - Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Transport Decentralization Project - State Project Agreement

Type: Project Agreement Date: October 14, 1993 Author: Legal Dept of World Bank
Conformed Copy - L3633 - Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Transport Decentralization Project - Amendment 1

Type: Agreement Date: October 14, 1993 Author: Legal Dept of World Bank
Conformed Copy - TF028642 - Tehran Transport Emissions Reduction Project - Global Environment Trust Fund Grant Agreement

Type: Grant or Trust Fund Agreement Date: October 5, 1993 Author: Legal Dept of World Bank
World Bank's railway database

All railways aim to improve management and operational efficiency and effectiveness. One of the dilemmas faced by railway managers in doing so is to set fair and realistic targets. The Transport Division...
Type: Brief Report#: 36011 Date: October 1, 1993 Author: Fraser, Julie M. ; Thompson, Luis S.
The urban environment and population relocation

Urban economic and social development in the Third World often requires involuntary displacement and relocation of various groups of residents. This process has received little research by urban sociologists...
Type: Publication Report#: WDP152 Date: September 30, 1993 Author: Cernea,Michael M.
Developing the Occupied Territories : an investment in peace (Vol. 5 of 6) : Infrastructure

The economy of the Occupied Territories (OT) is currently in turmoil. Income levels have stagnated over the past decade; unemployment and underemployment are rising rapidly; public infrastructure and social...
Type: Publication Report#: 12360 Date: September 30, 1993
The contributions of infrastructure to economic development : a review of experience and policy implications

This paper presents an examination of linkages between infrastructure and economic development based on both formal and empirical research and informal case studies. Its main thesis is that economic benefits...
Type: Publication Report#: WDP213 Date: September 30, 1993 Author: Kessides,C. Fallert
The evolution of Bank lending for infrastructure

The infrastructure sectors have played a prominent role in the Bank's efforts to assist developing countries, accounting for 41 percent of Bank lending over the past four and a half decades. In the last...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 12475 Date: September 30, 1993 Author: Galenson, Alice ; ESD
Asian trade barriers against primary and processed commodities

Many developing countries are being encouraged to shift toward increased processing and exports of domestically produced natural resource based products now exported in primary form. But in many major...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS1174 Date: September 30, 1993 Author: Safadi, Raed ; Yeats, Alexander
The financial situation of Polish enterprises (1992-3) and its impact on monetary and fiscal policies

This report was one of the first detailed studies of enterprise finances in a country of Central and Eastern Europe during transition. It is based on enterprise data collected monthly by the Polish Central...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 21951 Date: September 30, 1993 Author: Gomulka, Stanislaw
Morocco - Transport sector strategy paper

For its domestic transport needs, Morocco relies on all modes of transport, including road, rail, coastal shipping and aviation. Shipping and aviation dominate international traffic, although there is...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 9712 Date: September 20, 1993
Announcement that the World Bank Estimates Investment Needs at Three Billion Dollars in Occupied Territories Year of Success for East Asia in Economic Growth on September 10, 1993

This press release announces a just completed World Bank assessment of the economies of the West Bank and Gaza strip underscores the urgent need for a major upgrading of the physical and social infrastructure...
Type: Announcement Report#: 160530 Date: September 10, 1993
Changing Structure of East - West Gas Trade and the Role of the Gas Transit Countries

Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 11934 Date: September 9, 1993
Trade and transport logistics facilitation guidelines

The main objective of these guidelines is to advise on how to approach the complex issue of competitiveness in trade, and on how to achieve cost savings in logistics by reducing the time of immobilization...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 27229 Date: September 1, 1993 Author: De Castro,Carlos F.
Railway projects

This paper is based on OED evaluations of 40 railway projects conducted between 1985 and 1992. Of these 40 projects, only 21 (52 percent) were considered satisfactory. The projects were appraised 10-20...
Type: Brief Report#: 39362 Date: September 1, 1993
Preferential trade arrangements : estimating the effects on South Asia countries

Measuring the impact of potential trading blocks involving South Asian countries is the aim of this paper. The author broadens this line of research to analyze the impacts of other potential preferential...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 68407 Date: September 1, 1993 Author: Srinivasan, T.N. ; Canonero,Gustavo E.
Argentina's privatization program

This survey examines the privatization program in Argentina, the result of a strong commitment by the country~^!!^s top political leadership to economic recovery. The privatization program is wide ranging...
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: 12289 Date: August 31, 1993 Author: Alexander, Myrna ; Corti, Carlos
Road user taxation in selected OECD countries

The objective of this paper is to examine issues related to road user taxation, in a selection of "most successful countries". On the basis of six case studies, it provides a comparative review of policy...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 27215 Date: August 30, 1993 Author: Creightney,Cavelle D.
Trade issues in the new independent states

Since the breakup of the USSR, trade has contracted sharply for the fifteen new independent states, both with each other and with the rest of the world. This paper analyzes the factors that contributed...
Type: Publication Report#: 12174 Date: July 31, 1993 Author: Michalopoulos,Constantine