East Asia's infrastructure challenges arise from three related elements: 1) project investment requirements are vast: during the next decade, developing East Asian economies will need to invest about 7...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 30629Date: November 1, 1995
Throughout the world, the rail industry has been one of the most heavily regulated sectors. The public utility paradigm of government regulation has failed to handle the central regulatory problem - the...
Type: ViewpointReport#: 16918Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N. ;
Willig,Robert D.
Advanced infrastructure, as addressed in this article, refers to a spectrum of transportation and communications systems and services enhanced by using information technology and delivered by innovative...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 16281Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Mody, Ashoka ;
Reinfeld, William
This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP294Date: October 31, 1995Author:
Valdes, Alberto ;
Schaeffer, Barry ;
Sturzenegger, A
The development of the performance of the Finnish road sector discussed using the Finnish National Road Administration, RinnRA, as the main example. The author also takes examples from municipal street...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27233Date: October 1, 1995Author:
Isotalo,Jukka L.
This publication comes three years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when almost all the countries in the world endorsed the concept of environmentally sustainable development. It documents...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15024Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Mason,Jocelyn T.
In IFC Discussion Paper 19, the author found that the strength or weakness of a country's system of intellectual property protection seems to have substantial effect, particularly in high-technology industries,...
Type: PublicationReport#: IFD27Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Mansfield, Edwin
This report is a summary of the publication "Mainstreaming the environment," which came three years after the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It documents how the World Bank has sought to be an...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15014Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Mason,Jocelyn T.
The World Bank Annual Report on Portfolio Performance (ARPP) for fiscal 1994 is the third in a series of annual reports prepared in accordance with the recommendations of the Portfolio Management Task...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 15012Date: September 30, 1995
Under the mounting pressures of urban development, cities of the developing world are in vital need of accurate and systematic information about their land markets. Such information is essential to a host...
Type: PublicationReport#: 9640Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Dowall,David E.
The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have lost the geographic advantage they used to have because of their proximity to the European Union at a time when Eastern Europe was effectively...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1513Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Hoekman,Bernard M.
Ultimately, to be sustainable, cities must function for peoples, protect their health, provide shelter, and offer opportunities for employment and cultural expression. Leaders around the world are seeking...
Type: PublicationReport#: 15022Date: September 30, 1995Author:
Serageldin,M. Ismail ;
Barrett,Richard ;
Martin-Brown, Joan [editors]
This study grew out of the World Bank's analysis of urban transport in Warsaw, which identified the critical importance of this sector for the well-being of urban residents and the economic growth of cities....
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 12962Date: September 8, 1995
This report discusses how public expenditure management can be further improved in the Philippines, focusing on four areas: 1) the role of the public sector in the environment of the expanding private...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 14680Date: September 5, 1995
This press release announces the World Bank credit extended to Congo for Privatization and Capacity Building Project that aims at furthering the capacity of the Government to prepare and implement the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 153699Date: September 5, 1995
This report is the first in a series to be pubished by the IFC Agribusiness Department. The series will comprise sectoral presentations of industry trends with specific emphasis on developing countries....
Type: PublicationReport#: 14089Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Henry, Richard ;
Rothwelle, Graeme
Railways have a unique position in the state ownership portfolios and industrial policies of most nations, because of their long and complex histories and the unique dual public utility/private use aspects...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 16280Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Kopicki, Ron ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley
This is one of a series of handbooks which have arisen from a surveillance project to evaluate agricultural price and trade interventions in eight Latin American countries for seven commodities for the...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP267Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Valdes, Alberto ;
Schaeffer, Barry ;
de los Santos,
Barge-mounted diesel generators (BMDs) can represent a useful addition to the array of power generation technologies suitable for developing countries. Where they have been adopted, BMDs have proved highly...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 17621Date: August 31, 1995Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
This article examines the generation and management of municipal solid waste through the lens of economics. The authors estimate that the global burden of municipal solid waste amounted to 1.3 billion...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 77078Date: August 1, 1995Author:
Beede, David N ;
Bloom,David E.
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