• Urban air pollution in India : perceptions of stakeholders
    How do people who work in air-pollution-related areas view urban air quality trends and management? To answer this question, a questionnaire was sent out in early 2004 to stakeholders in India. Nearly...
    Type: Brief Report#: 33904 Date: August 1, 2004
  • News from ICSID Vol. 21 (No. 1)
    ICSID client survey. Resolution of oil and gas disputes at ICSID. Disputes before the Centre. New ICSID publications. New designations to the ICSID Panels of Conciliators and of Arbitrators. Membership...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 33324 Date: August 1, 2004 Author: Onwuamaegbu,Ucheora Obumneme
  • The private sector's role in the provision of infrastructure in post-conflict countries
    This paper examines private investment patterns in post-conflict countries based on the Bank's Private Participation in Infrastructure database, and looks at some success stories that may offer useful...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 39515 Date: August 1, 2004 Author: Bannon,Ian ; Hahn,Shelly ; Schwartz,Jordan Z.
  • Appendix - ITS applications around the World
    This Technical Note is an appendix of ITS - Intelligent Transport Systems - applications around the World, with a specific focus on three regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. It describes...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 35682 Date: July 22, 2004 Author: Yokota,Toshiyuki
  • ITS standars for devleoping countries
    IT standards, help to make the introduction of technology more systematic and economic. In some respects, ITS standards present a greater challenge than many other kinds of standards because they, like...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 35680 Date: July 22, 2004 Author: Weiland,Richard J. ; Yokota,Toshiyuki
  • Romania - Transport Restructuring Project : environmental and social assessment executive summary
    This executive summary of safeguard issues specifies the environmental and social potential adversity resulting from the implementation of the Transport Restructuring Project, reviews the country's environmental...
    Type: Board Report Report#: 29717 Date: July 22, 2004
  • ITS for developing countries
    The purpose of this ITS Technical Note is to introduce Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to decision makers and planners in developing countries. It also aims to increase their awareness of both the...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 35677 Date: July 22, 2004 Author: Yokota,Toshiyuki
  • ITS system architectures for developing countries
    This Technical Note focuses on system architectures for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). As discussed in Section 1, an ITS system architecture is an extremely useful tool for helping guide the...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 35681 Date: July 22, 2004 Author: Yokota,Toshiyuki
  • Innovative approaches to the application of ITS in developing countries
    Deploying ITS - Intelligent Transport System - in developing countries has many direct and indirect benefits for various stakeholders, including travelers, shippers, and transportation system operators....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 35679 Date: July 22, 2004 Author: Yokota,Toshiyuki
  • Two stage selection model for ITS applications
    This Technical Note describes the relationship between Intelligent Transport System (ITS) applications and their benefits, including the requirements that must be met to actually introduce ITS applications....
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 35678 Date: July 22, 2004 Author: Yokota,Toshiyuki
  • Zero day : timing is everything
    The report discusses current issues faced by computer users and the Internet, namely, the security of such systems, and how these are potentially compromised. This is so due to existing capabilities to...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 35907 Date: July 20, 2004 Author: Kellermann, Tom
  • Announcement of World Bank Calls for Balanced Approach to Curb Air Pollution on July 2, 2004
    This news release, dated July 2, 2004, announces in a report released, the World Bank calls for a balanced approach to reducing unhealthy emissions from vehicles. According to the World Health Organization,...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 165492 Date: July 2, 2004
  • Lebanon quarterly update
    This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Lebanon Country Office. This issue features: The Next Five Months in Lebanon: An Opportunity for Short Term Action and Long Term Reform; Cost of Environmental...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 37123 Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Aviv, Chadi Bou ; Choucair, Farra ; Dessus,Sebastien C. ; El Khalil,Zeina ; Razzaz,Omar Ahmad Munif ; Saba,Joseph P. ; Sarraf,Maria ; Zacchia,Paolo B. ; Ziade,Mona
  • Making rural roads work for both women and men : the example of Peru's Rural Roads Program
    Access to transport is often a critical precondition for rural development. This note describes a rural transport project that, by involving rural women in its design and implementation, was able to deepen...
    Type: Brief Report#: 34839 Date: July 1, 2004
  • BOTs : cyber-zombies
    Bot is short for robot, a program that provides services such as Internet relay channel (IRC) channel management, IRC channel spying, network and host scanning and DoS attacks. Short for robot, a bot is...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 35906 Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Kellermann, Tom
  • User fees in primary education
    User fees in primary education are pervasive, and a serious obstacle to enrollment, and completion for millions of children around the world. This has been evidenced by the huge surges in enrollment, that...
    Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: 30108 Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Bentaouet Kattan,Raja ; Burnett,Nicholas R.
  • Truck drivers and casual sex - an inquiry into the potential spread of HIV/AIDS in the Baltic region
    This study, perhaps the first of its kind in this region, is based on a study that explores the practice of casual sex among truck drivers, and commercial sex workers in the border areas of the Baltic...
    Type: Publication Report#: 29891 Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Kulis, Marzena ; Chawla, Mukesh ; Kozierkiewicz, A
  • Ghana - highway sector investment program
    The objective of the project (IDA credit of $100 million over the period 1997-2001) was to assist the Government of Ghana to increase economic growth by (a) maintaining, rehabilitating and reconstructing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 31064 Date: July 1, 2004
  • Roads economic decision (RED) model : software user guide and case studies
    This manual presents the Roads Economic Decision Model (RED) developed to improve the decision-making process for the development and maintenance of low-volume rural roads. The model performs an economic...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 34929 Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Archando Callao, Rodrigo
  • Good practice in trade facilitation: lessons from Tunisia
    Although trade liberalization can create jobs and raise incomes, these benefits can easily be undermined if trade transactions involve excessive costs and delays-reducing a country's export competitiveness....
    Type: Brief Report#: 30203 Date: July 1, 2004 Author: Alavi,Hamid R.
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