• Trust Fund for East Timor Update No. 7
    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#: 39270 Date: March 9, 2001
  • Privatization and regulation of transport infrastructure in the 1990s
    Although the link between improved infrastructure services and economic growth is uncertain, it is clear that reforms aimed at creating competition and regulating natural monopolies establish an environment...
    Type: Journal Article Report#: 76658 Date: March 1, 2001 Author: Estache,Antonio
  • Urban mobility : profitability and financing of urban public transport microenterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa - an overview of the regional study conducted in Abidjan, Bamako, Harare, and Nairobi
    This overview discusses the financial aspects of the four studies of urban transport microenterprises referred to in the Foreword. These studies covered far more than financial issues, since the objective...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 27307 Date: March 1, 2001 Author: Bultynck,Patrick
  • Cameroon - Transport sector reform
    The note briefly outlines the impacts, and lessons of the Transport Sector Reform Project in Cameroon, whose objectives aimed at developing private participation, and continue the restructuring of transport...
    Type: Brief Report#: 21996 Date: February 28, 2001 Author: Mohan,Prasad C. ; Reja,Binyam
  • COSEPRE - Costs of urban cleaning services : user's manual (version 1.0 - Windows 98)
    The COSEPRE (Costs of urban cleaning services, for its acronym in Spanish) software is a tool designed to analyze service costs in cleaning utilities. Once data on staff remuneration, cost of equipment,...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 22022 Date: February 28, 2001
  • Inventories in developing countries : levels and determinants - a red flag for competitiveness and growth
    Raw materials inventories in the manufacturing sector in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were two to five times as high in developing countries as in the United States, despite the fact that in most developing...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS2552 Date: February 28, 2001 Author: Guasch, J. Luis ; Kogan, Joseph
  • Nicaragua - Poverty assessment : challenges and opportunities for poverty reduction (Vol. 2 of 2) : Annexes
    The purpose of this Poverty Assessment is to provide background material and analysis that will assist the Government in designing this strategy, but it is not itself designed to formulate the strategy....
    Type: Poverty Assessment Report#: 20488 Date: February 21, 2001
  • Trust Fund for East Timor Update No. 6
    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#: 39269 Date: February 9, 2001
  • Statement by Todd Crawford at the meeting of February 6, 2001
    This is a statement by Todd Crawford at the meeting of February 6, 2001 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy progress report for Russia.
    Type: Executive Director's Statement Report#: 87477 Date: February 5, 2001 Author: Crawford,Todd W.
  • Statement by Balmiki Prasad Singh at the meeting of February 6, 2001
    This is a statement by Balmiki Prasad Singh at the meeting of February 6, 2001 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy progress report and the Moscow Urban Transport Project.
    Report#: 87480 Date: February 5, 2001 Author: Singh,Balmiki Prasad
  • Africa Gas Initiative (Vol. 4 of 6) : Congo
    The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) has been established by the Oil and Gas Division of the World Bank, to promote the utilization of natural gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study focuses on coastal countries...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM240 Date: February 1, 2001
  • Africa Gas Initiative (Vol. 5 of 6) : Cote d'Ivoire
    The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) has been established by the Oil and Gas Division of the World Bank, to promote the utilization of natural gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study focuses on coastal countries...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM240 Date: February 1, 2001
  • Africa Gas Initiative (Vol. 2 of 6) : Angola
    The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) has been established by the Oil and Gas Division of the World Bank, to promote the utilization of natural gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study focuses on coastal countries...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM240 Date: February 1, 2001
  • Africa Gas Initiative (Vol. 6 of 6) : Gabon
    The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) has been established by the Oil and Gas Division of the World Bank, to promote the utilization of natural gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study focuses on coastal countries...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM240 Date: February 1, 2001
  • Africa Gas Initiative (Vol. 1 of 6) : Main report
    The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) has been established by the Oil and Gas Division of the World Bank, to promote the utilization of natural gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study focuses on coastal countries...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM240 Date: February 1, 2001
  • Africa Gas Initiative (Vol. 3 of 6) : Cameroon
    The Africa Gas Initiative (AGI) has been established by the Oil and Gas Division of the World Bank, to promote the utilization of natural gas in Sub-Saharan Africa. The study focuses on coastal countries...
    Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: ESM240 Date: February 1, 2001
  • Trade in international maritime services : how much does policy matter?
    Maritime transport costs significantly impede international trade. The authors examine why these costs are so high in some countries, and, quantify the importance of two explanations: restrictive trade...
    Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS2522 Date: January 31, 2001 Author: Fink, Carsten ; Mattoo, Aaditya ; Neagu, Ileana Cris
  • Forging subregional links in transportation and logistics in South Asia
    One of the fundamental objectives of this report is to use an analytic framework to identify key transport and logistics impediments that have left the South Asian region lagging behind in economic growth....
    Type: Publication Report#: 21777 Date: January 31, 2001 Author: Subramanian,Uma ; Arnold, John
  • Integration of transport and trade facilitation : selected regional case studies
    This report examines experiences of interrelated transport and trade integration in selected regional trade blocs. The case studies range from advanced systems (Europe and North America) to more nascent...
    Type: Publication Report#: 21779 Date: January 31, 2001 Author: Lakshmanan, T. R. ; Subramanian, Uma ; Anderson, Wil
  • COSEPRE - Costs of urban cleaning services : technical documentation (version 1.0 - Windows 98)
    The COSEPRE (Costs of urban cleaning services, for its acronym in Spanish) software is a tool designed to analyze service costs in cleaning utilities. Once data on staff remuneration, cost of equipment,...
    Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report#: 22006 Date: January 31, 2001
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