An important question that arose with
the economic transition from centrally planned to market
economics is why the planned economies were so inefficient
in comparison...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 21945Date: January 1, 1993Author:
Hlavacek, Jiri ;
Jandik, Tomas
The New Delhi office started as a small
office, chiefly with representational and information
gathering responsibilities, in a single room in the Imperial
Hotel. It...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84395Date: January 1, 1993Author:
Al-Talib, Fatima
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...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM153Date: January 1, 1993
Human capital investment is usually
modeled in an intertemporal optimization framework in which
households or individuals maximize the present value of
life-time utility....
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...
The purpose of this annual report is to
inform the research and policy community inside and outside
the World Bank about the work of the Country Economics
Department....
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 11577Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Country Economics Department
The purpose of this study is to
determine the engineering and economic feasibility of
rehabilitating an abandoned mini-hydro plant at Kikagati in
south-western Uganda...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 11847Date: December 31, 1992
Two years after the Polish Big Bang,
privatization in Eastern Europe has been progressing at a
slow pace which frustrates many reformers in these
countries. Notwithstanding...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP119Date: December 31, 1992Author:
Bogetic, Zeljko ;
Conte, Michael
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....
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...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162809Date: December 23, 1992
This press release announces the World
Bank has approved a loan of one hundred thirty million US
dollars for Egypt to support a project aimed at enhancing
the country’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162804Date: December 17, 1992
This press release announces the World
Bank has approved a loan of ninety million US dollars to
help Russia implement its privatization program on December
17, 1992.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162803Date: December 17, 1992
This press release announces the global
environmental challenges depends on success in tackling
poverty, World Bank President Lewis Preston said in an
address to the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163188Date: December 15, 1992
This press release announces the World
Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars to
Peru for Privatization technical assistance project on
December 14, 1992.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162801Date: December 14, 1992
This press release announces the World
Bank has approved a loan of two hundred million US dollars
for Philippines to support integration of the country’s
economy with...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162799Date: December 11, 1992
The first country strategy paper (CSP)
was reviewed by the President's Council in November
1987. It outlined a strategy for the initiation of Bank
lending, which was...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 108466Date: December 6, 1992
The initial experience with windfarms in
India has been favorable; the technology has performed up to
expectations, and the large-scale wind monitoring program
established...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM150Date: December 2, 1992
What are the costs of making consumption
of production activities use less-polluting fuels? The
author reviews how the fuel mix used by different industries
has changed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1031Date: November 30, 1992Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
Small-scale hydropower has been
identified as a potentially cost-effective source of energy
for remote areas where connection to the national electric
grid is not feasible...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 11553Date: November 30, 1992
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