• Abuses in fuel markets : how to protect consumers and public health
    In the fuel business, smuggling, adulteration, mislabeling, and short-weighting are widespread in many developing counties. Not only do these commercial abuses reduce consumer welfare and government excise...
    Type: Viewpoint Report#: 23939 Date: September 30, 2001 Author: Kojima,Masami ; Bacon,Robert W.
  • Emission control : privatizing vehicle inspection and reducing fraud in Mexico City
    The vehicle inspection program in Mexico City is regard as one of the most successful in a developing country. As the program evolved it suffered the problem common to most such scheme in developing countries...
    Type: Viewpoint Report#: 23940 Date: September 30, 2001 Author: Kojima,Masami ; Bacon,Robert W.
  • Trust Fund for East Timor Update No. 12
    This monthly report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. The contents include:...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 39275 Date: September 11, 2001
  • Participation in Development Assistance
    When primary stakeholders-individuals and community-based organizations-participate in Bank activities, development relevance and outcomes improve. Project-supported activities tend to be more sustainable....
    Type: Brief Report#: 24566 Date: September 1, 2001 Author: Campbell-Page, Elizabeth [editor-in-chief]
  • Infrastructure, geographical disadvantage, transport costs, and trade
    The authors use different data sets to investigate the dependence of transport costs on geography and infrastructure. Infrastructure is an important determinant of transport costs, especially for landlocked...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: 77365 Date: September 1, 2001 Author: Limao,Nuno ; Venables,Anthony J.
  • Trust Fund for East Timor Update No. 11
    This report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. It gives a financial status...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 39274 Date: August 16, 2001
  • Private solutions for infrastructure : opportunities for Uganda
    This Country Framework Report for Uganda, is part of a series focused on achieving poverty eradication, rural development, and economic growth through sustained infrastructure programs. Introducing private...
    Type: Publication Report#: 22613 Date: July 31, 2001
  • Technical efficiency gains from port reform : the potential for yardstick competition in Mexico
    The authors show how relatively standard methodologies can help to measure the efficiency gains from reforming the organization of port infrastructure, how those measures can be used to promote competition...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS2637 Date: July 31, 2001 Author: Estache, Antonio ; Gonzalez, Marianela ; Trujillo, L
  • Trust Fund for East Timor Update No. 10
    This monthly report updates the activities of the Trust Fund for East Timor (TFET), established by the World Bank's Board of Governors following the December 1999 Tokyo Donors' Meeting. The contents include:...
    Type: Newsletter Report#: 39273 Date: July 17, 2001
  • Micro-entreprises de transport urbain a Abidjan : Urban transport microenterprises in Abidjan
    This note analyses the organization, profitability, and financing of private mass transit services in Abidjan, with an emphasis on private companies operating minibuses commonly known as "gbakas". The...
    Type: Brief Report#: 28537 Date: July 1, 2001 Author: Alain Bonnafous, Amakoe Adolehoume
  • Output-based education : the evolution of contracts for schools in the U.K.
    The private sector has provided investment funding and services for the United Kingdom public sector schools through output-based contracts since 1996. Under these contracts firms provide accommodation...
    Type: Viewpoint Report#: 22410 Date: June 30, 2001 Author: Goldstone, David
  • Trade and production fragmentation : Central European economies in European Union networks of production and marketing
    Developments driven by trade liberalization and tehcnological progress mean that old development strategies, based on state intervention and trade protection, no longer work. Global competition has brought...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS2611 Date: June 30, 2001 Author: Kaminski, Bartlomiej ; Ng,Francis K. T.
  • Maintaining roads : the Argentine experience with output-based contracts
    The Argentine government is using output-based contracts with the private sector for rehabilitation and maintenance of its nonconcessioned road network. The multiyear lump sum contracts, funded by the...
    Type: Viewpoint Report#: 22408 Date: June 30, 2001 Author: Liautaud,Gerard L.
  • Urban air quality in Cotonou - executive summary
    The note highlights the conclusions of the study on Urban Air Quality in Cotonou, carried out in 2000. The purpose of the study was to identify the major source of air pollution in the city, and quantify...
    Type: Brief Report#: 22659 Date: June 30, 2001
  • Urban transport dysfunction and air pollution in Dakar : study conclusions
    This Note presents the main conclusions of an on-site study of urban transport dysfunction and air pollution in the Dakar agglomeration carried out from August to November 1998. The study aims to define...
    Type: Brief Report#: 22615 Date: June 30, 2001 Author: Bultynck,Patrick
  • Trade liberalization in China's accession to the World Trade Organization
    Before reform, China's trade was dominated by a few foreign trade corporations with monopolies on the trade of specific ranges of products. Planners could control imports through these corporations so...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS2623 Date: June 30, 2001 Author: Ianchovichina,Elena ; Martin, Will
  • The World Bank clean air initiative in Sub-Saharan African cities
    Leaded gasoline is the greatest single source of human exposure to lead, and as such, the health impacts of lead are serious, affecting, and causing elevated blood pressure, cardiovascular conditions,...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 25223 Date: June 28, 2001 Author: Sridhar, M.K. ; Schwela, D. ; Cayrade, Patrick ; Amsle
  • Announcement of China Receives Hundred Million Dollars Loan to Improve Inland Waterways on June 21, 2001
    This news release, dated June 21, 2001, announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 100 million dollars International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) loan for the China Third...
    Type: Announcement Report#: 161960 Date: June 21, 2001
  • Statement by Abdul Aziz Mohd. Yaacob at the executive directors' meeting of June 19, 2001
    This is a statement by Abdul Aziz Mohd. Yaacob at the executive directors' meeting of June 19, 2001 concerning CAS Progress Report, Programmatic Social Reform Project and Second Rural Roads Project for...
    Type: Executive Director's Statement Report#: 110439 Date: June 19, 2001
  • Statement by Franco Passacantando at the executive directors' meeting of June 19, 2001
    This is a statement by Franco Passacantando at the executive directors' meeting of June 19, 2001 concerning country assistance strategy (CAS) progress report, Programmatic Social Reform Project, and Second...
    Type: Executive Director's Statement Report#: 110438 Date: June 19, 2001
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