This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) assesses the Banks assistance strategy for Costa Rica, based on the influence the strategy had for the 1980s on determining the relevance, and effectiveness of...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 21391Date: November 16, 2000
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: NewsletterReport#: 39260Date: November 9, 2000
On the surface, PADME (Projet d'Appui au Developpement des Micro-Entreprises) is one of the most profitable African micro-finance institutions (MFIs) that report to the bulletin. Although this profitability...
Type: BriefReport#: 54793Date: November 1, 2000Author:
Mcdonald,Jennifer
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), in collaboration with the World Bank, UNDP, UNCHS (HABITAT) and the Western Provincial Council (WPC) in Sri Lanka, launched a project in February 2000 to formulate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 87974Date: November 1, 2000
Based on the assumption that local entrepreneurs are central to any effort to significantly contribute to Cambodia's sustainable economic development, this survey report has three primary objectives: (i)...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 36745Date: November 1, 2000Author:
Boring,Don ;
Webster,Leila Mckimmon
The increased density and sprawl of Cairo's urban areas are the consequence of a number of factors, of which the major ones are the physical and geographic features, transport supply, urban policy and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84187Date: November 1, 2000Author:
Metge, Hubert
The objective of Chile's port reform, is to encourage investments for improved port equipment, in the hope that this will lead to more efficient service, in part by attracting larger, more modern ships....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21483Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Foxley,Juan ;
Mardones,José Luis
The author examines how rural road investment projects should be selected and appraised when the objective is poverty reduction. After critically reviewing past and current practices, the author develops...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2458Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Van De Walle,Dominique
Ports have become increasingly capital intensive. Economies of scale have led to larger, more specialized ships, and, competition between ports has started to grow. As a result, governments are reorganizing...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21482Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Trujillo Castellano,Lourdes ;
Nombela,Gustavo
These are the proceedings from a seminar, directed toward issues of political economy, and institutional development on the subject of urban transport, defined within structural factors - closely linked...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21145Date: October 31, 2000Author:
Talvitie, Antti [editor]
Beyond the quick start package a set of projects called the Near Term package of projects and studies has been designated but many of these projects require further study. Since the March 2000 Donor Conference...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 34883Date: October 13, 2000
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: NewsletterReport#: 39259Date: October 6, 2000
The objective of this paper is to provide a conceptual and a practical framework, as well as an international perspective with concrete examples, to address the contexts that create perverse incentives...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 34793Date: October 1, 2000Author:
Gonzales de Asis, Maria
This technical note presents a road user charges model, developed by the Bank, and, gives an overview of the objectives, structure, and results of the model by taking as an example a hypothetical road...
Type: BriefReport#: 22657Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Archondo-Callao,Rodrigo
The objective of this report is to consider one important part of the transition process for countries in Central and Eastern Europe: that is, the role that urban policy has played and continues to play...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20941Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Buckley,Robert M. ;
Mini,Federico
The main challenge of the transition has been to redefine how the state interacts with firms, but little attention has been paid to the flip side of the relationship : how firms influence the state - especially...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2444Date: September 30, 2000Author:
Hellman, Joel S. ;
Jones, Geraint ;
Kaufmann, daniel
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: NewsletterReport#: 39257Date: September 6, 2000
Commercial Agricultural Production (CAP) was a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded technical assistance project implemented by the US development consulting firm Chemonics...
Urban air pollution is a matter of increasing concern in many of the newly independent states (NIS). This study has reviewed the current status of three principal areas closely linked to urban air quality...
Type: PublicationReport#: 20873Date: August 31, 2000Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Fodor,Martin ;
Kojima,Masami ;
Lovei,Magda
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