For over three decades, Sub-Saharan African countries have had an interest in regional integration initiatives to accelerate their industrialization and growth. With the help of a more comprehensive database...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS2004Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Yeats, Alexander James
The longer a concession lasts, the less effect the initial rounds of bidding will have on the terms of the concession over its full life. Much more influential will be periodic renegotiations or price...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18721Date: November 30, 1998Author:
Klein, Michael
This transcript discusses about the business in the community program, befriended in 1985, a program which today seems quite normal in terms of its focus on having businesses reach out into the communities...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 99960Date: November 17, 1998Author:
Wolfensohn, James D.
Accounting for around a third of the 1996 Goss Domestic Product (GDP) of US$ 9 billion (second only to oil), and almost three-fourths of all employment, agriculture is a dominant sector of the Cameroonian...
Type: BriefReport#: 57146Date: November 1, 1998Author:
Bindlish, Vishva L. ;
Clementine Ananga, Messina
The Thirteenth Meeting of the Coordinating Committee for the Road Management Initiative (RMI) and the Rural Travel and Transport Program (RTTP) of the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP)...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27257Date: November 1, 1998
This paper develops a simple framework to analyze various pollution control strategies that have been used or are proposed in the urban passenger transport sector. The context is the declining quality...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1991Date: October 31, 1998Author:
Heil, Mark ;
Pargal, Sheoli
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: better aid will give new life to 80m a year by Kevin Rafferty; Hollywood comes to the World Bank, by Nazanine Atabaki and Lynn Thornton;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57000Date: October 26, 1998Author:
Atabaki, Nazanine ;
Rafferty, Kevin ;
Shen, Anna ;
Thornton, Lynn
Private participation in electricity industries has grown substantially since 1990, with electricity becoming one of the leading infrastructure sectors in attracting private investment. Between 1990 and...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 18714Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Bradley, Ada Karina Izaguirre
In this paper are interested not just in countries' average educational enrollment and attainment, for which there has been a great deal of examination both from official and academic sources, but in how...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1980Date: September 30, 1998Author:
Filmer, Deon ;
Pritchett, Lant
The purpose of this note is to brief the Executive Directors on the sources and uses of International Development Association (IDA) funds during FY98. The note responds to the request of the IDA deputies...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 68819Date: September 4, 1998
This article describes an annual database of physical infrastructure stocks for a cross section of 152 countries for 1950-95. The database includes estimates of six measures of infrastructure: the number...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 77279Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Canning, David J.
The Regulatory Reform and Private Enterprise Division of The Economic Development Institute (EDIRP) conducted a core course on privatization and regulation of transport services in Washington, DC from...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49426Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Estache, Antonio
The World Bank's role in Sub-Saharan Africa's urban transport sub-sector has evolved in the last few years. Recent projects concerned specifically with urban transport (e.g., in Ghana, Kenya, and Senegal),...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27254Date: September 1, 1998Author:
Bultynck, Patrick
Until the late 1970s, the Finnish Road and Waterways Administration (RWA) operated as a highly centralized agency. Then RWA started its gradual reforms. In the mid 1980s, RWA began evolving into a market-oriented...
Type: BriefReport#: 22587Date: August 31, 1998Author:
Ojala, Lauri ;
Sirvio, Esko
This report consists of the Operation Evaluation Department's (OED) evaluative memoranda on 334 Implementation Completion Reports (ICRs) and 15 Project Completion Notes (PCNs) submitted to the Executive...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 18368Date: August 14, 1998
In a hub and spoke system of containerized seaborne trade, cargo to a region is delivered first to a primary hub port and then transported to its final destination, whether by sea, rail, road or inland...
Experiences in several Latin American countries, show the promises, and challenges of contracting out road maintenance, based on performance standards, rather than on the traditional way, which is based...
Type: BriefReport#: 22586Date: July 31, 1998Author:
Zietlow, Gunter
This news release, dated July 15, 1998, announces the World Bank approved a total of 142 million dollars to support four development projects in Egypt during fiscal year 1998 (July 1997 to June 1998).
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161832Date: July 15, 1998
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