At the end of the 1980s, the road transport industries of Poland and Hungary emerged from decades of socialist organization with a small number of massive state-owned enterprises, surrounded by a margin...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP182Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Bennathan,Esra ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley
This report serves as a practical guide to show how satellite remote sensing can be a useful source of urban management information and to demonstrate the benefits of geographical analysis of available...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11364Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Paulsson, Bengt
Decisions about investments in the long-lived assets of transport infrastructure require some assumptions about prospective long-term demand from services using that infrastructure. To improve the basis...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS998Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Bennathan, Esra ;
Fraser, Julie ;
Thompson, Louis S.
With the emergence of a powerful trucking industry and the deregulation of transport, most of the once-powerful developing country railways are facing a struggle for survival. Traditional traffic is shifting...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1006Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Rebelo,Jorge M.
This press release announces famine-relief efforts for the Somali people will be aided by twenty million US dollars in grants approved yesterday by the World Bank in support of the United Nations 100-day...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163179Date: October 28, 1992
This paper discusses Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme's (ESMAP's) present and potential role in helping to respond to the global 'reform agenda' for the environment, particularly in the contexts...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 48203Date: October 1, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars to Estonia to help the country finance imports of goods needed to maintain essential services, such as electricity,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162730Date: October 1, 1992
The focus of this report is on the government's reform and development policies for the decade of the nineties. The assessment is based on a review of the successes and failures of China's reform experience...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11117Date: September 30, 1992
In early 1992, trade among the 15 state of the former USSR had declined dramatically, and trade relations were in disarray. This study discusses the incentives in the interstate trading environment of...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11169Date: September 30, 1992Author:
Michalopoulos,Constantine ;
Tarr,David
The authors give a long-term perspective on how changes in the former CMEA areas will affect international trade in manufactures. They show that expanding Eastern European exports to the West should be...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS973Date: September 30, 1992Author:
Erzan,Refik ;
Holmes,Christopher B. ;
Safadi,M. Raed
This report reviews the institutional obstacles to the efficient use of containers in the international trade of four Latin American countries. It looks particularly at four areas of potential concern;...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 11280Date: September 30, 1992Author:
Dick, Malise ;
LAC
Recent studies of the Philippines energy sector have identified key issues in the operations of the power sector and the development of indigenous coal, oil, geothermal and hydro resources. Resolution...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 11662Date: September 30, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of eleven million US dollars to Uruguay for Public enterprise reform loan (PERL) on September 8, 1992.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162728Date: September 8, 1992
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