This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans totalling three hundred ninety-four million US dollars for Mexico to help reduce air pollution in Mexico city metropolitan area, and to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162800Date: December 15, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars to Peru for Privatization technical assistance project on December 14, 1992.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162801Date: December 14, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of two hundred million US dollars for Philippines to support integration of the country’s economy with the international system, signalling...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162799Date: December 11, 1992
Mandating emission control devices in new cars is only one of the most obvious steps to address the problem of vehicle emissions. Others range from taxes on gasoline and parking to incentives to scrap...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1030Date: November 30, 1992Author:
Krupnick,Alan Jeff
The authors introduce a new measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, to measure the restrictiveness of a system of trade protection. They propose an alternative to the commonly used ad hoc indexes of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1022Date: November 30, 1992Author:
Anderson, James E. ;
Neary, J. Peter
The overriding issue arising from this report is the need to reduce the transport sector's drain on the government's overall fiscal revenues. The drain took the form of injections of cash and equity, overdrafts...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 10667Date: November 30, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved two loans totalling three hundred sixty million US dollars for Indonesia to relieve traffic congestion in Guangdong Province, a leading export centre,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162788Date: November 18, 1992
This press release announces on November 16, 1992, the Russian Federation and the World Bank signed an agreement for a six hundred million US dollars loan approved by the Bank's Board of Executive Directors...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163185Date: November 16, 1992
In the September 1992 meeting, several deputies requested management for further explanation on the budgetary impact of the methodology for encashment of donor contributions in paragraph 67-69 of the revised...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81399Date: November 1, 1992
The Industrial Energy Efficiency Program: Phase 1 is an activity which began in early 1989 and was completed in 1990. It was designed to (a) illustrate existing possibilities for energy conservation and...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM148Date: November 1, 1992
Decisions about investments in the long-lived assets of transport infrastructure require some assumptions about prospective long-term demand from services using that infrastructure. To improve the basis...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS998Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Bennathan, Esra ;
Fraser, Julie ;
Thompson, Louis S.
At the end of the 1980s, the road transport industries of Poland and Hungary emerged from decades of socialist organization with a small number of massive state-owned enterprises, surrounded by a margin...
Type: PublicationReport#: WDP182Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Bennathan,Esra ;
Thompson,Louis Stanley
With the emergence of a powerful trucking industry and the deregulation of transport, most of the once-powerful developing country railways are facing a struggle for survival. Traditional traffic is shifting...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS1006Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Rebelo,Jorge M.
This report serves as a practical guide to show how satellite remote sensing can be a useful source of urban management information and to demonstrate the benefits of geographical analysis of available...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11364Date: October 31, 1992Author:
Paulsson, Bengt
This press release announces famine-relief efforts for the Somali people will be aided by twenty million US dollars in grants approved yesterday by the World Bank in support of the United Nations 100-day...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163179Date: October 28, 1992
This paper discusses Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme's (ESMAP's) present and potential role in helping to respond to the global 'reform agenda' for the environment, particularly in the contexts...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 48203Date: October 1, 1992
This press release announces the World Bank has approved a loan of thirty million US dollars to Estonia to help the country finance imports of goods needed to maintain essential services, such as electricity,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162730Date: October 1, 1992
The focus of this report is on the government's reform and development policies for the decade of the nineties. The assessment is based on a review of the successes and failures of China's reform experience...
Type: PublicationReport#: 11117Date: September 30, 1992
The authors give a long-term perspective on how changes in the former CMEA areas will affect international trade in manufactures. They show that expanding Eastern European exports to the West should be...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS973Date: September 30, 1992Author:
Erzan,Refik ;
Holmes,Christopher B. ;
Safadi,M. Raed
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