The loss of large expanses of forests,
especially in the tropics, poses a serious threat to human
welfare and the global environment. The increasing rate of
deforestation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 110215Date: January 1, 1992Author:
Sharma,Narendra P.
This paper discusses the past, present,
and likely future of private business in part of Eastern
Europe, focusing on entrepreneurial firms which have been
created during...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 18919Date: January 1, 1992Author:
Johnson,Simon Charles
Progress in integrating environmental
objectives into International Development Associations
(IDA's) operational programs was reviewed in
"IDA's policies, operations,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81403Date: January 1, 1992
Abuses of diplomatic protection in the
19th century led some developing countries to insist that
disputes with foreign investors be settled exclusively
before their...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 34898Date: January 1, 1992Author:
Shihata,Ibrahim F. I.
Haiti's environment is undergoing a
gradual process of severe degradation, which has
irreversible effects. Even though this environmental problem
has arisen partially...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM143Date: December 31, 1991
This report is a mid-term progress
report of the "Rwanda - Improved Kilns and Charcoal
Stoves" project, which was funded by the Dutch
Government and UNDP (Kigali), and...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM141Date: December 31, 1991
The energy sector in Bolivia over the
past 10 years has accounted for 20 to 50 percent of the
country's merchandise exports and has absorbed 40
percent of public investments....
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 10498Date: December 31, 1991
This report presents the results of a
case study carried out in 1990 and 1991, jointly by the
United Nations Statistical Office (UNSO), the World Bank,
and the National...
Type: Environment Working PaperReport#: ENV50Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Van Tongeren, Jan ;
Schweinfest, Stefan
This paper points out the importance of
woody and non-woody biomass from an energy perspective in
developing countries. It then considers the dearth of
reliable data...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 11338Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Ryan, Paul ;
Openshaw, Keith ;
Industry and Energy Department
This speech by Robert S. McNamara,
President of the World Bank, was given to the United
Nations, in New York City on December 10, 1991. He reports
that the rapid growth...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 109967Date: December 12, 1991Author:
McNamara,Robert S.
This press release announces the Global
Environment Facility (GEF) approved its first investment
grant of four million five hundred thousand US dollars for a
project...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162580Date: December 12, 1991
This press release announces the World
Bank loan of fifty-five million US dollars to the
Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) in
support of Third power...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162206Date: December 11, 1991
This is a statement by Mr. Mr. Licun Jin
at the executive directors' meeting of December 10,
1991 concerning the Third Power System Development Project
for Thailand.
Type: Executive Director's StatementReport#: 121303Date: December 10, 1991
This report is largely devoted to
analyzing and advising upon the (i) macro-economic policies,
(ii) systemic reforms and (iii) sectoral adjustment policies
that will...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 9497Date: December 3, 1991
This report is the World Bank~^!!^s
first review of the Mongolian economy. It analyzes
Mongolia~^!!^s economic policies and problems at the time of
membership, February...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 10108Date: December 2, 1991
This report presents a regional training
program for enhancing the energy project management, survey,
and analytical capability of professionals in the Southern
African...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 17340Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Energy Sector Mangement Assistance Program (ESMAP) ;
Southern African Development Coordination
Conference (SADCC)
The chapters in this volume contain
partial answers to a question that governments of developing
countries addressed with renewed interest in the 1980s: what
can be...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 10187Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Ramamurti, Ravi ;
Vernon, Raymond [editors]
There are potential gains in terms of
lowering political, economic, administrative and time costs
from fostering privatization in Eastern Europe via forms of
minority...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP103Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Bogetic,Zeljko
This report presents a regional training
program for enhancing the energy project management, survey,
and analytical capability of professionals in the Southern
African...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 17340Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Energy Sector Mangement Assistance Program (ESMAP) ;
Southern African Development Coordination
Conference (SADCC)
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