• Announcement of the World Bank Approves One Hundred Fifty Million Dollars for Peruvian Government Decentralization on December 2, 2003
    This news release, dated December 2, 2003, announces the World Bank approved a 150 million dollars loan to Peru to support an ambitious and innovative government decentralization program.
    Type: Announcement Report#: 162911 Date: December 2, 2003
  • SSATP review of national transport and poverty reduction strategies : guidelines
    This report discusses the process and methodology involved in developing a practicable method for undertaking a comparative analysis of transport sector and poverty reduction strategies. The report notes...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 29853 Date: December 1, 2003 Author: Braithwaite,Mary
  • Benin - transport sector investment program
    The objectives of this project (1997-2001) using $40 million of IDA funds were to: (i) safeguard the competitiveness of Benin's transport sector and of its transit corridor through open modal competition;...
    Type: Brief Report#: 27989 Date: December 1, 2003 Author: Munasinghe,P. C. Mohan
  • Phase-out of leaded gasoline in oil importing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa : The case of Tanzania action plan
    This is one of four documents of a series presenting the results of studies, workshops and action plans recently undertaken for four sub-Saharan African countries (Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania and Tanzania)...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 28453 Date: December 1, 2003
  • Phase-out of leaded gasoline in oil importing countries of Sub-Saharan Africa : The case of Ethiopia - action plan
    This is one of four documents of a series presenting the results of studies, workshops and action plans recently undertaken for four sub-Saharan African countries (Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania and Tanzania)...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 28452 Date: December 1, 2003 Author: Bultynck,Patrick ; Reliquet,Chantal
  • Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) annual report 2003
    The Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) is a multidonor technical assistance facility aimed at helping developing countries improve the quality of their infrastructure through private...
    Type: Annual Report Report#: 35498 Date: December 1, 2003
  • A tale of two ports: the cost of inefficiency
    While these studies illustrate generally the effect of transport on trade flow patterns and the importance of transport costs to trade success, some use distance as a proxy for transport costs in their...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 30140 Date: December 1, 2003 Author: Kent,Paul E ; Londono-Kent, Maria del Pilar
  • Announcement of World Bank Helps to Strengthen the Energy Sector in Moldova on November 25, 2003
    This news release, dated November 25, 2003, announces the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a United States (U.S.) 35 million dollars credit for the Moldova Second Energy Project. The...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 162415 Date: November 25, 2003
  • Connecting cities with macroeconomic concerns : the missing link
    Urban growth is, in all parts of the world, inevitable and welcomed. Despite concerns that local governments will not be able to address those issues associated with increased urban population, the number...
    Type: Publication Report#: 27833 Date: November 1, 2003 Author: Mila Freire and Mario Polese
  • The rail decentralization and modernization program in Brazil : lessons learned
    In 1991, the Republic of Brazil asked the World Bank's assistance in the decentralization program of its urban rail systems run by the Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos (Brazilian Urban Trains Company...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 33898 Date: November 1, 2003 Author: Rebelo,Jorge M.
  • GEF talking points Volume 3 (No. 2)
    In this issue: Highlights from the upcoming GEF Council Meeting. Focal point news. GEF/NGO network news. News from monitoring and evaluation. Other news.
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 37619 Date: November 1, 2003
  • Private participation in Mediterranean infrastructure news
    This newsletter provides information on PPI-related news in the Maghreb and Mashrek regions on telecommunications, energy, water and sanitation, transport. It includes the article: Making transport more...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 36355 Date: November 1, 2003 Author: Palazzi , Marco Berti ; D?Aversa, Fabio
  • Trade and transport facilitation in the South Caucasus - Georgia Policy Note
    This note, as part of the Transport Facilitation sector work in the South Caucasus (TTFSC) sector work, reviews the situation in 2002, with particular respect to trade, transport and potential transit...
    Type: Working Paper Report#: 34889 Date: November 1, 2003 Author: Ollivier,Gerald Paul ; Zarnowiecki,Michel ; Humphreys,Richard Martin ; Sargsyan,Gevorg ; Vashakmadze,Sergo ; Deane,Judith M.
  • Announcement of World Bank to Invest on Allahabad Bypass Project in India on October 14, 2003
    This news release, dated October 14, 2003, announces to help reduce the transport constraints hampering national economic activity in India, the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 240 million dollars...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 162683 Date: October 14, 2003
  • Announcement of Afghanistan Revives Telecommunications and Postal Services on October 7, 2003
    This news release, dated October 7, 2003, announces with an average of only two telephones per 1,000 people, among the lowest coverage in the world, Afghanistan has taken a major step to increase access...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 163028 Date: October 7, 2003
  • Trade facilitation in the Caucasus : final report
    From 15 May to 2 June 2000 COWI conducted a mission to the three Caucasian republics of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia, spending about one week in each country. The mission established an initial overview...
    Type: Institutional and Governance Review (IGR) Report#: 27074 Date: October 1, 2003
  • Tariff evasion and customs corruption : does pre-shipment inspection help?
    The authors provide a new approach to the evaluation of pre-shipment inspection (PSI) programs as ways of improving tariff-revenue collection and reducing fraud when customs administrations are corrupt....
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS3156 Date: October 1, 2003 Author: Cadot,Olivier ; Anson,Jose ; Olarreaga,Marcelo
  • A multi-output cost function for port terminals : some guidelines for regulation
    Cargo handling in ports is a multioutput activity, as freight can arrive in many forms such as containers, bulk, rolling stock, or noncontainerized general cargo. In this paper Tovar, Jara-D�, and Trujillo...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS3151 Date: October 1, 2003 Author: Lourdes Trujillo ; Sergio Jara-Diaz ; Beatriz Tova
  • Income-related biases in international trade : what do trademark registration data tell us?
    Economists have long recognized that richer countries trade more among themselves than with poorer economies due to a closer match of exporter supply structures and importer preferences. In the literature,...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS3150 Date: October 1, 2003 Author: Fink,Carsten ; Javorcik,Beata ; Spatareanu,Mariana
  • Jordan quarterly update
    This newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Jordan country unit. This issue features: In this edition: World Bank Contacts; Linking Jordan to Regional and Global Markets: The Importance of Trade...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 37120 Date: October 1, 2003 Author: Alavi,Hamid R. ; Devlin,Julia C. ; Bou Habib,Chadi ; Henderson, Margaret ; Scheuermaier,Markus ; Warlop,Sophie W. ; Yee,Peter Hsu Jen ; Zacchia,Paolo B.
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