This paper describes the main characteristics of the Mongolian economy, delineates the reforms that are being introduced for the purposes of adjustment and structural change and finally defines the nature...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP145Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Yusuf,Shahid ;
Burki,Shahid Javed
This paper provides an overview of the current use of non-motorized vehicles (NMVs) in Asian cities, environmental and economic aspects of NMVs in Asian cities, the characteristics of NMVs and facilities...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP162Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Replogle, Michael
Many complain and offer evidence that in recent years the GATT system has become more power-oriented, less stable, and less equitable. A concern to reverse this drift was one of the motives that brought...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS818Date: January 31, 1992Author:
Finger, Michael J. ;
Dhar,Sumana
Infrastructure has a central role to play in accelerating growth in developing countries. The Infrastructure and Urban Development Department's (INU) work program for 1992-95 has three main objectives:...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11478Date: January 1, 1992Author:
EXT
This twenty-fifth World Bank atlas presents key social and economic information organized under three headings, people, economy, and environment, to emphasize the importance of these themes in the development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11538Date: January 1, 1992
Natural gas has always been regarded as a premium fuel. It is non-toxic and burns with a remarkably clean and controllable flame, so giving considerable practical and economic benefits to industrial, commercial...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48098Date: January 1, 1992Author:
Homer,John
This report aims to describe the current role that natural gas plays in the energy balances of Eastern Europe, and to identify its future potential. It also considers the key policy issues that need to...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM149Date: January 1, 1992
Current rural travel and transport are dominated by head loading and walking (largely by women) to satisfy the daily travel and goods movement needs of rural populations in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA)....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP161Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Riverson, John D.N. ;
Carapetis,Steve
Diffusion of innovation proceeds at varying rates in different countries, creating differences in the productivity with which resources are used, and hence affecting the competitive position of nations....
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 10428Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Mody,Ashoka ;
Sanders, Jerry ;
Suri, Rajan ;
Rao, Chandu ;
Contreras, Fernando
This report presents the findings of the first phase of the study which included a survey of the ongoing experience with contract maintenance in Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, British Colombia (Canada), Chile,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU91Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Miquel,Sergio S. ;
Condron, James
Competition in a period of rapid technological change is the subject of this report. The steel mill industry is of considerable interest to less developed countries and was chosen to investigate whether...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 7657Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Mody, Ashoka ;
Sanders, Jerry ;
Suri, Rajan ;
Thompson
This paper reviews the Bank's current policies on managing and charging for roads. It does so because roads are important economic assets and arrangements for managing them and charging for road services...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU92Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Heggie, Ian G.
This press release announces the World Bank loan of sixty-nine million five hundred thousand US dollars to help finance an expansion of the Indonesian government’s nonformal education program on December...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162210Date: December 20, 1991
This press release announces the World Bank two loans to Chile totaling ninety-eight million US dollars for transport, hospital infrastructure project on December 18, 1991.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162212Date: December 18, 1991
This partial transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) held on Tuesday,...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 121213Date: December 17, 1991
This Precis entitled, Modernizing China's ports, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Project performance audit report, Report No. 9695, dated June 10, 1991. The audit notes...
Type: BriefReport#: 29210Date: December 1, 1991Author:
Weaving,Rachel V.
This Precis entitled, Lending for railways : Pakistan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Report No. 10015, dated October 18, 1991. The audit recommends...
Type: BriefReport#: 29206Date: December 1, 1991Author:
Weaving,Rachel V.
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