This press release announces a three hundred million dollar loan to Russia to help them rehabilitate highways on February 17, 1994. This is the World Bank's first highway project for Russia and is designed...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160468Date: February 17, 1994
In a very short time Cambodia has made impressive progress in achieving peace and stability. Following UN-sponsored elections in May 1993 and three months of an interim government, a national government...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 12667Date: February 10, 1994
This report discusses the following aspects of Turkmenistan's economy: recent economic trends, economic prospects, reform program for economic stabilization, structural reform (private sector development...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 11647Date: February 7, 1994
In many reforming socialist economies decentralization of governmental functions to local governments and privatization of government-owned assets are fundamentally linked. Often the ownership of previously...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 26804Date: February 1, 1994Author:
Alm,James R. ;
Buckley,Robert M.
Reforming the financial management of public administrations is often at the core of the search for improved efficiency. When an administration delivers services of commercial or industrial nature, adapting...
Type: BriefReport#: 81610Date: February 1, 1994Author:
Juhel,Marc H. ;
Audige, Michel G.
Reducing the transport burdens or rural women, in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), would release time and energy for productive and socially beneficial activities. This case study investigates the magnitude of...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27217Date: February 1, 1994Author:
Cristina Malmberg Calvo
Understanding the costs of road construction, road maintenance and vehicle operation is essential to sound planning and management of road investments. While the infrastructure costs borne by road agencies...
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP234Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Archando-Callao, Rodrigo S. ;
Faiz,Asif
This paper shows that the existing official budget of the Russian Federation, inherited from the central planning era, grossly misrepresents the government's revenues and outlays. It explains what the...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP137Date: January 31, 1994Author:
Le Houerou, Philippe ;
Gold, Elana ;
Katash, Stanisl
In the year of 1994, Arturo Israel was interviewed on behalf of the World Bank Group Archives oral history program by Richard Webb and Davesh Kapur. He was good observers and practitioners during the year...
There are over one and a half million km of roads in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including 554,000 km of main roads. Almost without exception, these roads are managed by bureaucratic government roads departments....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 27216Date: January 1, 1994Author:
Heggie,Ian Graeme
For 40 years the World Bank has been assisting Brazil in its development efforts. In the 1950s and 1960s most of the Bank's loans were for energy, transport, and heavy industry, helping to support a period...
Type: PublicationReport#: 13496Date: January 1, 1994
This press release announces the World Bank's loan of twenty million dollars to Belize for The City Infrastructure Project. The objectives aim to improve the health and safety of the city dwellers, preserve...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 160397Date: January 1, 1994
This publication describes the process by which a training forum became the catalyst for Sri Lankan government, industry, and environmental professionals to develop and begin implementing an action plan...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 17943Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Pilapitiya, Sumith ;
Stern, Stephen ;
Baijal, Hemant
The paper reviews analytically the issues concerning the involvement of the government in infrastructure and industrial policy in South Asia. It does so both in order to: (i) see what guidance can be offered...
Type: Internal Discussion PaperReport#: IDP134Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Seabright,Paul B.
Rail transportation has often been wrongly viewed as a natural monopoly which should be provided by the government and for which private provision is not approriate. In recent years, however, it has become...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 12727Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Galenson,Alice C. ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley
The authors try to gauge why the GATT dispute settlement process has, to date, been so ineffective in disciplining the use of antidumping measures. Focusing on the five cases in which panels have completed...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1232Date: December 31, 1993Author:
Finger, J. Michael ;
Fung, K.C. ;
DEC
This review of the transport sector operations concentrates on the performance of the Fiscal Year (FY) 93 portfolio and its development impact. Section II describes briefly the compostion of FY93 portfolio...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 18185Date: December 31, 1993
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