The note reviews three successive transport projects in Ghana (First and Second Transport Rehabilitation, and National Feeder Roads Rehabilitation Projects), which contributed to the success of the country's...
Type: BriefReport#: 23003Date: March 31, 2000Author:
Reja,Binyam
The report is an overview of Nepal's economic development, comprising five volumes, which include the main report, followed by reviews on agricultural and rural development, on the social sectors, and,...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 20211Date: March 31, 2000
The study presents an overview on Argentina's economic growth, income distribution, and poverty, mostly as of 1991, when the country underwent a period of adjustment, which remarkably led to a sharp inflation...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 19992Date: March 23, 2000
The first nationwide regulation of transportation in the United States (U.S.) was intervention in railways. In the 1830 to 1880 period, railways had been over-built in many areas of the country especially...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84209Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Thompson,Louis Stanley
The basic premises of the Program are that: (i) policy reform is essential to obtain improved provision of transport services; and (ii) countries and their development partners need to collaborate within...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27260Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program
In developed and developing countries, road systems are central not only to the economic health of the nation, but also to the quality of the environment and, in general, the quality of life. Public awareness...
Type: BriefReport#: 54810Date: March 1, 2000Author:
Samantha de Silva, Christine Kamwendo
To increase investment in infrastructure, in the early 1990s Chile's government introduced private capital into the transport infrastructure sector, covering roads and highways, bridges, tunnels, and airports....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2279Date: January 31, 2000Author:
Gomez-Lobo, Andres ;
Hinojosa, Sergio
This Annual Review of Development Effectiveness focuses considerably, on the cooperative approach of the Comprehensive Development Framework, which captures the consensus of the development community,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 19905Date: January 19, 2000
The report summarizes the air quality monitoring component, as part of the regional study on Cleaner Transportation Fuels for Urban Air Quality Improvement in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and intends...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21295Date: January 1, 2000Author:
Telling, Steve ;
Stacey, Brian ;
Mansimov, Rzakhan ;
Hajiev, Abdul ;
Gasan-Zade, Zaki ;
Abbasov, Gazanfar ;
Chub, Victor ;
Ososkova, Tatyana ;
Nazarova, Valentina ;
Sventsiskaya,Olga ;
Kojima,Masami ;
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Fodor,Martin ;
Lovei, Magda
The combination of distance, poor infrastructure, and being landlocked by neighbors with poor infrastructure, can make transport costs many times higher for some developing countries than for most others....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2256Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Venables,Anthony J. ;
Limao,Nuno
This overview of the road transport sector in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, includes an analysis of current status, and developments since 1989, and examines forty seven countries in four regions:...
This report explores the role of energy policy in reducing the environmental consequences of transportation in developing countries. The report's central thesis is that although the potential impact of...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM224Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Krupnick, Alan ;
Harrington, Winston
The authors use three different data sets to investigate how transport depends on geography and infrastructure. Landlocked countries have high transport costs, which can be substantially reduced by improving...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2257Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Limao,Nuno ;
Venables,Anthony J.
More than ninety developing economies opened their telecommunications sector to private participation between 1990 and 1998. These countries transferred to the private sector the operating or construction...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 21461Date: December 31, 1999Author:
Bradley,Ada Karina Izaguirre
This news release, dated December 22, 1999, announces the World Bank approved 22.4 million dollars in credits to the government of Bhutan to improve and expand the coverage of basic urban services in 10...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161856Date: December 22, 1999
This news release, dated December 17, 1999, announces poor people in 36 provinces in rural Vietnam benefit from a United States (U.S.) 103.9 million dollars equivalent International Development Association...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161860Date: December 17, 1999
This news release, dated December 7, 1999, announces the World Bank approved a United States (U.S.) 13.65 million dollars equivalent credit to support the Albania Emergency Road Repair Project, an emergency...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161864Date: December 7, 1999
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