This news release, dated April 8, 2003, announces the World Bank approved two loans totaling 250 million dollars to support reforms in Uruguay to restore economic growth, while improving social conditions...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162851Date: April 8, 2003
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
This report claims that the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) has reached a turning point in its record of service to its partners. Demands on the SSATP as the single most tried and tested...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39631Date: April 1, 2003
Reforms of the Polish State Railways state owned enterprise (PKP), the national carrier in Polish railway sector, were implemented over a period of 1990-2002with general view to restructure the entity...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62074Date: April 1, 2003
This Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and the report. The summary includes: introduction; funding source; activity size; geographical focus; sectoral...
An emerging issue to privatized infrastructure sectors is how regulators should deal with proposed mergers that could potentially increase market power and lead to anticompetitive behavior. This note looks...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 25956Date: March 31, 2003Author:
Trujillo, Lourdes ;
Serebrisky, Tomas
The authors combine measures of urban form and public transit supply for 114 urbanized areas with the 1990 Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey to address two questions: (1) How do measures of urban...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS3007Date: March 31, 2003Author:
Bento, Antonio M. ;
Cropper, Maureen L. ;
Mobarak, A
The authors analyze the relationship between trade facilitation, trade flows, and GDP per capita in the Asia-Pacific region for the goods sector. They define and measure trade facilitation using four broad...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2988Date: March 31, 2003Author:
Wilson,John S. ;
Mann, Catherine L. ;
Otsuki, Tsuneh
This news release, dated March 13, 2003, announces the World Bank approved a 100 million dollars loan to help improve urban infrastructure and services in the Colombian capital of Bogota.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162701Date: March 13, 2003
This news release, dated March 11, 2003, announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 108 million dollars credit to help remove key transport bottlenecks on an emergency basis, and also support...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162793Date: March 11, 2003
In the late 1980s and the 1990s many countries privatized airports or concessioned their operation. The United Kingdom began the trend, followed by other countries adopting new forms of infrastructure...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 26401Date: March 1, 2003Author:
Serebrisky,Tomas S.
The Joint portfolio Review (JPR) aims at ensuring that the portfolio is focused on achieving the country's development objectives and that these objectives continue to be important for the country. The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 34887Date: March 1, 2003
This note provides practical guidance on rural transport interventions in multi-sectoral and community driven projects. It is targeted at people and agencies involved with physical access issues at the...
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 Poland and Lithuania...
Type: Other Health StudyReport#: 25179Date: February 28, 2003
The extent to which an evaluation unit is independent is a perennial issue in evaluation oversight. A number of official evaluation and audit organizations have addressed this issue and compiled a set...
This report, the statistical annex of the 2002 Annual Review of Development Effectiveness (ARDE) - Achieving Development Outcomes: The Millennium Challenge, is comprised of 14 Tables. Each table supports...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 27609Date: February 11, 2003
This report analyzes regulatory and efficiency issues in the telecommunications, natural gas, urban water and sanitation, and transport sectors. After reviewing recent performance in these sectors, the...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29796Date: February 1, 2003
The pace of technological advance in the past few decades has opened new possibilities. Consider the technology for controlling emissions from cars, buses, and trucks. Government regulations have driven...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 25596Date: February 1, 2003Author:
Kojima,Masami
This Memorandum is intended to initiate discussion regarding the appropriate infrastructure strategy and policy direction which will lead to a sustainable transport sector which provides access for people...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 26444Date: January 31, 2003
This Memorandum is intended to initiate discussion regarding the appropriate infrastructure strategy and policy direction which will lead to a sustainable transport sector which provides access for people...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 26444Date: January 31, 2003
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