This note outlines the progress achieved by the Western Cape Provincial Government to attain formalization of the minibus taxi industry envisaged in terms of the National Taxi Task Team (NTTT) recommendations...
Type: BriefReport#: 54854Date: December 1, 1999Author:
Ahmed, Yasir
In the early 1990s, Cote d'Ivoire developed and implemented an ambitious privatization program dealing with sixty enterprises from all sectors across the economy, including the major sectors in infrastructure:...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 56440Date: December 1, 1999
The review presents an overview of the road sector in the seven UDEAC countries and in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It examines the adequacy of the infrastructure services as well as the efforts to...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27259Date: December 1, 1999Author:
Ole Kr. Sylte
Trade in Europe and Central Asia (ECA) has been deeply transformed in the 1990s, with a strong increase of international trade and exports, and a shift of trade towards Western Europe. The quality and...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 25491Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Ollivier, Gerald ;
Taborga, Pedro N.
During the 1990s private sponsors have participated in projects involving eighty-nine airports in twenty-three developing countries, with investment totaling US$5.4 billion. About three-fifths of this...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 19933Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Da Silva,Gisele F.
Since the early 1990s, legal and institutional reform in the roads sector has received more attention in the Southern African Development Conference (SADC) region. This was prompted by the recognition...
Type: BriefReport#: 22654Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Coetzee, Sandra J.H.
When Argentina initiated reform of its transport sector in 1989, it had few models to follow. It was the first Latin American country to privatize its intercity railroad, to explicitly organize intraport...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2249Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Estache, Antonio ;
Carbajo, Jose C. ;
de Rus, Gines
In August 1996, the Heads of State of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) signed the Protocol on Transport, Communications and Meteorology, which sets a broad framework of regional cooperation...
Type: BriefReport#: 22653Date: November 30, 1999Author:
Coetzee, Sandra J.H.
The Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), launched by the President of the World Bank in January 1999, is a response to the alarming trends of increased world poverty and dimmed growth prospects,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 20180Date: November 30, 1999
This Country Framework Report (CFR) describes and assesses the current status and performance of key infrastructure sectors in India, the policy, regulatory, and institutional environment for involving...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 36054Date: November 1, 1999
This Country Framework Report (CFR) looks at Vietnam's Recent Performance in the Infrastructure Sectors, and the significant improvements in the supply of infrastructure made in recent years. The dramatic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 36052Date: November 1, 1999
The year 2000 (Y2K) computer bug could potentially affect digital control systems and computer hardware/software that rely on date-dependent calculations for their proper functioning. A considerable level...
As we enter the twenty-first century, transport is a critical link between economic and social development. Effective transport systems allow people to get to their jobs, take care of their health, pursue...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 30421Date: November 1, 1999
The note is based on a review of the road sector within the member countries of the Customs and Economic Union of Central African States (UDEAC), and describes the road network, indicating conditions on...
For a World Bank Institute course on transport privatization, the authors cover basic issues associated with the regulation of privatized airport infrastructure and services: 1) Economic characteristics...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2180Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Betancor, Ofelia ;
Rendeiro, Robert
This note reviews the outcomes of the First Highway Rehabilitation Project, and its resettlement and rehabilitation (R&R) activities, with significant involuntary resettlement. Although the project was...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 21273Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Rapp, Kenn ;
Agrawal,Pramod K.
The goal of this study is to develop the first steps of a Bank strategy for restraining greenhouse gas (GHG) emission from transportation. The study addressees the issue of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2)...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 20023Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Schipper, Lee ;
Marie-Lilliu, Celine
The private sector has become increasingly involved in the operation of common-user port facilities during the 1990s, following public sector dominance of the sector since the 1940s. During the past decade...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 22401Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Sommer,Dirk
With containerized shipping, maritime transport has changed profoundly. Among other things, it has shifted from labor-intensive to more capital-intensive activities, including larger specialized ships...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2181Date: September 30, 1999Author:
Trujillo, Lourdes ;
Nombela, Gustavo
Contents: Theory and practice: legal conflicts and leasing company practice; municipal transport and leasing; leasing Ford automobiles. Expert opinion: licensing leasing activities; leasing statistics....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 39575Date: September 1, 1999
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