Competition in a period of rapid technological change is the subject of this report. The steel mill industry is of considerable interest to less developed countries and was chosen to investigate whether...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 7657Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Mody, Ashoka ;
Sanders, Jerry ;
Suri, Rajan ;
Thompson
This report presents the findings of the first phase of the study which included a survey of the ongoing experience with contract maintenance in Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, British Colombia (Canada), Chile,...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU91Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Miquel,Sergio S. ;
Condron, James
Current rural travel and transport are dominated by head loading and walking (largely by women) to satisfy the daily travel and goods movement needs of rural populations in sub - Saharan Africa (SSA)....
Type: PublicationReport#: WTP161Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Riverson, John D.N. ;
Carapetis,Steve
This paper reviews the Bank's current policies on managing and charging for roads. It does so because roads are important economic assets and arrangements for managing them and charging for road services...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU92Date: December 31, 1991Author:
Heggie, Ian G.
This press release announces the World Bank loan of sixty-nine million five hundred thousand US dollars to help finance an expansion of the Indonesian government’s nonformal education program on December...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162210Date: December 20, 1991
This press release announces the World Bank two loans to Chile totaling ninety-eight million US dollars for transport, hospital infrastructure project on December 18, 1991.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162212Date: December 18, 1991
This partial transcript, from the session of the Executive Directors of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Development Association (IDA) held on Tuesday,...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 121213Date: December 17, 1991
This Precis entitled, Modernizing China's ports, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Project performance audit report, Report No. 9695, dated June 10, 1991. The audit notes...
Type: BriefReport#: 29210Date: December 1, 1991Author:
Weaving,Rachel V.
This Precis entitled, Lending for railways : Pakistan, complements the Bank's Operations and Evaluation Department (OED), Performance audit report, Report No. 10015, dated October 18, 1991. The audit recommends...
Type: BriefReport#: 29206Date: December 1, 1991Author:
Weaving,Rachel V.
This report provides an overview of transport sector lending and support activities during the past fiscal year. It identifies the broad trends in transport sector operations, highlights examples of good...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 11087Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Infrastructure and Urban Development Department
This paper examines five methods used to collect or estimate the information needed to monitor the flow of a cohort of students through a cycle of education. Two of these five methods -- the True Pupil...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 10566Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Cuadra,Ernesto Pancracio ;
Population and Human Resources Department
This paper is an exploratory study of the demand for travel by the urban poor. It is the first step in an effort to understand how changes in the cost and extent of public transport services and infrastructure...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU86Date: November 30, 1991Author:
Kranton, Rachel E.
This report presents the remarks made at the opening session of the "Conference on Transport in Africa" held on November 27, 1991, in Brussels. A number of factors make transport in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21729Date: November 27, 1991Author:
Doyen,Jean H.
This report comprises remarks delivered at a Conference on Road Rehabilitation and Maintenance in sub-Saharan Africa organized by the Commission of European Communities, Directorate-General for Development,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 21726Date: November 19, 1991Author:
Serageldin,M. Ismail
In November 1991, Christopher R. Willoughby was interviewed by the Brookings Institution on behalf of the World Bank Group Archives oral history program by John Lewis, Richard Webb, and Devesh Kapur. During...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 79149Date: November 18, 1991
On November 5, 1991, Jochen Kraske was interviewed by the Brookings Institution on behalf of the World Bank Group Archives oral history program by John Lewis, and Richard Webb. During his tenure at the...
Type: TranscriptReport#: 79063Date: November 5, 1991
Governments around the world are improving the operational efficiency of national ports through institutional reform, changing the role of port authorities, and increasing use of the private sector. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 81608Date: November 1, 1991Author:
Lethbridge,John R. ;
Ra'anan, Zvi
This survey was conducted by the World Bank in response contradictory reports on Afridev hand pumps. The focus of this survey is on the hook and eye type connecting rods on these pumps. A large number...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46003Date: November 1, 1991Author:
Wollschied, G.P.
Many governments have begun to deregulate economic activities and decentralize decision making, with the objective of increasing financial viability and productive efficiency in the public sector. In this...
Type: BriefReport#: 84212Date: November 1, 1991Author:
Lethbridge,John R. ;
Ra'anan, Zvi
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