This note discusses the issues faced in introducing new gas fired power generation plants into Brazil's hydropower dominated system. Ordinarily, power project developers seek to operate their plants at...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26349Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Garcia,Hernan G. ;
Law,Peter L.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently completed an evaluation of "Experience with Conservation Trust Funds." The evaluation sought to determine the extent to which potential advantages of trust...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21217Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
Firm performance, conflict prevention, capital flight - World Bank researchers on new territories: interview with Paul Collier and David Dollar, by Richard Hirschler. Time to rethink privatization in transition...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 19031Date: February 28, 1999Author:
Bai, David D ;
Braunwieser,Birgit ;
Daniel, Pradhan ;
Enthoven,Adolf J. H. ;
Hirschler,Richard ;
Intriligator, Michael D ;
Jed, ChiFulin ;
Krastev, Ivan Kaufmann ;
Li, Friedman ;
Nellis,John R. ;
Paterson, Robert ;
Petkov, Boris ;
Randi, Gordon ;
Roger H, Chong-en ;
Sanjay, Ryterman ;
Shelley, Louise I ;
Willhelm, Kathy
Porto Alegre: where the public controls the purse strings, by Lucy Conger. Home ownership: the new Chinese Dream, by Ted Plafker. Riches in rags, by Gabriela Boyer. The city economy. The devastation for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 20843Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Conger,Lucy ;
Plafker, Ted ;
Boyer,M. Gabriela ;
Boyle, Robin ;
Landry,Charles ;
Stuart,Patrick Lindsay ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Juhel, Mark ;
Pollock, Eric ;
Drabrowski, Andrea ;
Raboh,Hossam Abd ;
Auclair,Christine ;
Lebo,Jerry A. ;
Bergen,Margaret
FY2000 Strategic Forum to chart Bank's direction. Post-conflict reconstruction brainstorming. Netherlands pledges $14.5 million for environment. Safeguard policies compliance. NGOs call for forest policy...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23120Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Briscoe,John ;
Foley,Mary-Ellen ;
Hassan, Hassan ;
Kiernan, Michael ;
Poore,Kerri Lynne ;
Rapp,Kennan W. ;
Rosenthal,Shane J. ;
Sherman,Mariam J. ;
Whitten, Tony
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) recently completed an evaluation of "Experience with Conservation Trust Funds." The evaluation sought to determine the extent to which potential advantages of trust...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21216Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Harstad, Jarle [editor]
Under reconstruction - an Asian journal; by Rob Wright. The Net effect on the nation state; by Charles J. Doyle, Glover T. Ferguson and Hugh F. Morris. The new Executive Vice President of IFC - Peter Woicke;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23475Date: January 31, 1999Author:
Wright, Rob ;
Alwis, Chitra [editors] ;
Doyle, Charl
The Pilot Program represents a new and so far unique model of international partnership. Together, the Brazilian government, the Bank, and the donors are seeking to make this innovative partnership work....
Some of the headings included in this newsletter of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) news are: MIGA to play important role in Asian growth and recovery program: President Clinton; council...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63023Date: January 1, 1999
In the wake of Hurricane Mitch. International city design competition. Renaissance art fuels commerce. Crime drives Johannesburg stock exchange out. Neighborhood park in Hamburg. Rating Russia. Letters...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21717Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Graef, Roger ;
Chatterjee,Patralekha ;
Kalbermatten,John M. ;
Cowen, Penelope J. Brook ;
Vines, Stephen ;
Johnson,Curtis Eugene
Two workshops were sponsored by the Demonstration Projects in October-November 1998 to identify lessons learned from projects involving agroforestry systems and recuperation of degraded lands. Both workshops...
In this issue: International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) home page on the web. Disputes before the Centre. New designations to the ICSID Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46563Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Parra,Antonio R.
Natural gas reservoirs are plentiful around the world, but many of them currently seem too small, or too remote from sizable population centers, to be developed economically. Furthermore, gas associated...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 26345Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Kojima,Masami
We introduce - the International Finance Corporation (IFC) : Leasing Development Project. Theory and practice - what is leasing : significance of the leasing sector for economic development. Leasing in...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: our dream is a world free of poverty; soccer teaches lessons for life, by Jamil Sopher; Bolivia shows that stabilization is not enough;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57002Date: January 1, 1999Author:
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen,Anna ;
Sopher,Jamil
In a world facing future food shortages, the global importance of aquaculture continues to rise. According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) statistics, 1995 worldwide production from aquaculture...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21132Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Zweig,Ronald D.
Board wrestles with energy and environment. ESSD Council retreat confronts key issues. Flash from the field. IFC implements revised environmental review process. World Commission on dams seeks continued...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23118Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Jechoutek, Karl ;
Liebenthal, Andres ;
Marroquin, Ma
Expert panel charts 21st century challenges. ICW98 (International Centers Week) tackles scientific, environmental, and organizational issues. CGIAR acts on "terminator technology." New IWMI (International...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 23556Date: December 31, 1998
The social assessment (SA) on Moldovan land reform was undertaken as economic and sector work to study farm communities; assess the impact of land reform on stakeholder groups; and identify the perspectives,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21266Date: December 31, 1998Author:
Dudwick,Nora ;
Youssef,Deborah
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