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Optimal user charges and cost recovery for roads in developing countries

The optimal charge for road use is equal to variable costs for road maintenance, together with the costs road users impose on other road users and on the rest of society. One persistent question raised...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS780 Date: October 31, 1991 Author: Heggie, Ian G. ; Fon, Vincy
Reforming and privatizing Hungary's road haulage

The Volan units (previously unitary but now formally dismembered) provide public transport services for both passengers and freight, and make up the largest enterprise in Hungary's road transport industry....
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS790 Date: October 31, 1991 Author: Bennathan, Esra ; Gutman, Jeffrey ; Thompson, Louis
Coal pricing in China : issues and reform strategy

This study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the magnitude of coal price distortions producers and consumers face in China and how the distortions ripple through the Chinese economy....
Type: Publication Report#: WDP138 Date: October 31, 1991 Author: Albouy,Yves J.
Zambia - Public Sector Management Review (Vol. 2 of 2) : Technical Annexes

Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector Report Report#: 9827 Date: October 31, 1991
Maldives - Country economic memorandum

The Maldives' economy is one the great developmental successes of the past two decades. Despite remoteness, a physically tiny land mass and limited natural resources, real growth has averaged around 10...
Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report#: 9920 Date: October 16, 1991
Paraguay - Country economic memorandum

Agriculture has been Paraguay's main source of growth since colonial times. Agricultural exports continue to be a major determinant of the rhythm of growth. New sources of growth (commerce, tourism, and...
Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report#: 9147 Date: October 15, 1991
Angola - Power rehabilitation and technical assistance (Vol. 4 of 4) : Administrative and financial activities of Angola's major electric power utilities

This report provides an economic and financial analysis of Angola's electric power sector. The aims of the report are as follows: a) giving an outline of the overall economic situation of the Angolan electric...
Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 48179 Date: October 1, 1991
Senegal - ESMAP country paper

Senegal is one of the core countries in Energy Sector Assessment Program's (ESMAP's) work program, and this document constitutes the ESMAP Country Paper (ECP) for Senegal. The ESMAP country paper (ECP)...
Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 48008 Date: October 1, 1991
Angola - Power rehabilitation and technical assistance (Vol. 1 of 4) : Economic and financial analysis of Angola's electric power sector

This report provides an economic and financial analysis of Angola's electric power sector. The aims of the report are as follows: a) giving an outline of the overall economic situation of the Angolan electric...
Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 48179 Date: October 1, 1991
The road maintenance initiative : building capacity for policy reform (Vol. 2 of 3) : Readings and case studies

This is a three volume book that reports on a series of six subregional policy seminars organized by the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) under the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program...
Type: Publication Report#: 10003 Date: September 30, 1991 Author: Carapetis, Steve ; Levy, Hernan ; Wolden, Terje
Are Ghana's roads paying their way? Assessing road use cost and user charges in Ghana

The author studied how much road damage contributes to road use costs in Ghana and how the marginal social costs should be recovered. This required understanding the road deterioration process better...
Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report#: WPS773 Date: September 30, 1991 Author: Gronau, Reuben
The road maintenance initiative : building capacity for policy reform (Vol. 1 of 3) : Report on the Policy Seminars

This is a three volume book that reports on a series of six subregional policy seminars organized by the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) under the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program...
Type: Publication Report#: 10003 Date: September 30, 1991 Author: Carapetis, Steve ; Levy, Hernan ; Wolden, Terje
The road maintenance initiative : building capacity for policy reform (Vol. 3 of 3) : Guidelines for policy action planning

This is a three volume book that reports on a series of six subregional policy seminars organized by the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) under the Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Program...
Type: Publication Report#: 10003 Date: September 30, 1991 Author: Carapetis, Steve ; Levy, Hernan ; Wolden, Terje
Announcement of China Fifth Railway Project on September 27, 1991

This press release announces the World Bank has approved three hundred thirty million US dollars to China for Fifth railway project on September 27, 1991.
Type: Announcement Report#: 162000 Date: September 27, 1991
Announcement by Lewis Preston about Organizational Changes in World Bank's Senior Management on September 17, 1991

This press release has the announcement by World Bank President, Lewis Preston about streamlining of the structure of the senior management of the Institution on September 17, 1991.
Type: Announcement Report#: 162573 Date: September 17, 1991
Malaysia - Gas utilization study

The objective of this study is to formulate a gas utilization strategy. The specific issues to be reviewed include : a) the least-cost schemes of gas and power development in the Peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak;...
Type: Working Paper Report#: 9645 Date: September 16, 1991
Notice of Meeting and Agenda for Executive Directors of the Bank and IDA, and a Committee of the Whole to be held on September 10, 1991

Type: Agenda Report#: 134632 Date: September 6, 1991
Ghana - Charcoal production strategy review

The joint United Development Programme (UNDP) / World Bank Energy Assessment Report for Ghana (1986) recognized the importance of wood fuels and the need to deal with them as part of a well-integrated...
Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 48183 Date: September 1, 1991
An assessment of the energy toolbox planning model

This study evaluates the performance of Energy Toolbox (ETB), a wide-energy model. For purposes of this assessment two case studies were developed: a case for Haiti that assesses ETB's performance at the...
Type: ESMAP Paper Report#: 48264 Date: September 1, 1991 Author: Lopez Cordova,Jose Ernesto
Decision making under uncertainty - an option valuation approach to power planning

This paper addresses the problem of irreversibility of investments, a topic related to the recently evolving "real options" literature. In the presence of alternatives, the opportunity to invest in a large...
Type: Departmental Working Paper Report#: 11330 Date: August 31, 1991 Author: Martzoukos, Spiros ; Industry and Energy Department ; Crousillat,Enrique O.