This paper is an attempt to provide a comprehensive overview of the privatization experience in Tunisia, focusing upon the respective roles of the public and private sectors, the relationship between them,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 11645Date: January 31, 1993Author:
Saghir, Jamal ;
Cofinancing and Advisory Services
Nepal's economy relies heavily on a relatively recent but modest road network of only 7,400 kms. The road network's backbone is now in place and comprises the East-West Highway and the North-South road...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 10988Date: January 12, 1993
As part of its profound, on-going movement from a centralized, planned socialist economic system toward a market-oriented economy, Poland has had to confront the need for institutional and regulatory reforms...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM153Date: January 1, 1993
The promotion of effective operations in the transport sector depends primarily on institutional and human resource development. A review of progress in the Sub-Saharan Africa transport program indicates...
Type: BriefReport#: 81601Date: January 1, 1993Author:
Moeller,Philip W.
Human capital investment is usually modeled in an intertemporal optimization framework in which households or individuals maximize the present value of life-time utility. The main cost emphasized in these...
Type: PublicationReport#: LSM93Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Lavy,Victor Chaim
A combination of regulations, incentives, and fuel taxes is a good solution for reducing pollution. To reduce emissions by renewing or improving equipment, some measures work best through regulation and...
The author presents a conceptual framework for road pricing based on a rigorous diagrammatic - but nonmathematical - framework derived from first (economic) principles. His analysis of traditional arguments...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1070Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Hau,Timothy Doe-Kwong
The author explores 20 criteria for a good road pricing system and presents case studies illustrating the costs, revenues, and benefits of alternative congestion charging mechanisms. The author finds...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1071Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Hau,Timothy Doe-Kwong
A review of World Bank experience in the energy sector of developing countries shows why energy efficiency is low and what the gains from greater efficiency might be. Many individual project components...
This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans to Brazil, thirty-eight million US dollars to the State of Alagoas, and fifty million US dollars to the State of Santa Catarina, for State...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162807Date: December 23, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of four million five hundred thousand US dollars to Seychelles for Environment and transport project on December 23, 1992.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162809Date: December 23, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred fifty million US dollars to Venezuela for Highway management project on December 23, 1992.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162808Date: December 23, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of one hundred fifty million US dollars for China to meet the burgeoning demands of trade to improve facilities at Shanghai Port, already...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162806Date: December 23, 1992
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