This study is the third of a new series of country studies initiated in 1985. The purpose is to look at the interaction between the Bank and selected borrowing countries over an extended period of time....
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 8041Date: August 31, 1989
On August 31, 1989, Mexico will use a World Bank loan of 45.5 million dollars to carry out a project designed to improve forestry activities in the states of Durango and Chihuahua, increase rural incomes...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 161905Date: August 31, 1989
The South western Bolivan city of Oruro has few charms under the best of circumstances: in hardship, its raw edge is unmistakeable. Parking a jeep in a downtown street, a visitor is met (before turning...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52720Date: August 18, 1989Author:
Schacter,Mark J.
Bangladesh has had a remarkable record of public enterprise reforms relative to most developing countries. The Government reversed its pro-nationalization policies in the 1980's, putting more emphasis...
Type: Pre-2003 Economic or Sector ReportReport#: 7654Date: August 3, 1989
The objective of this study is to analyze transportation costs incurred by Caribbean countries on their major export products to determine whether there is evidence of freight rate discrimination against...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS244Date: July 31, 1989Author:
Yeats,Alexander James
The past ten years have been an extraordinarily difficult period for most Latin American economies and financial systems. In several of the region's countries, the policy environment changed from one of...
This report evaluates the Syria cement industry. It includes measures to conserve the use of energy and to substitute less costly fuels, particularly natural gas. It presents an overview of the cement...
The World Bank thesaurus, a tool for storing, retrieving and disseminating information, is a collection of keywords and phrases which have been selected to represent concepts. It is used to index Bank...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 7934Date: June 30, 1989
On June 30, 1989, Algeria’s efforts to rehabilitate and modernize its port facilities will be supported by a 63 million dollars loan from the World Bank.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158883Date: June 30, 1989
The application of index numbers to disaggregated Korean footwear exports during 1974-85 suggests that binding voluntary export restraints (VERs) led to significant price increases but not to the upgrading...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS216Date: June 30, 1989Author:
De Melo, Jaime ;
Winters, L. Alan
Earmarking is the dedication or hypothecation of a specific government revenue to a specific public expenditure. Road funds represent one form of earmarking and toll roads offer the potential for earmarking;...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU45Date: June 30, 1989Author:
Johansen, Frida [editor]
This study focuses on load forecasts as a source of planning uncertainty by identifying the nature and extent of forecast inaccuracy per se rather than by analysis of the causes of uncertainty. It evaluates...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: 8292Date: June 30, 1989Author:
Sanghvi,Arun P. ;
Vernstrom,Robert ;
Besant-Jones,John E.
This special study evaluates the actual experience of two small countries with highway civil works procurement/construction over a period of fifteen years in order to understand the special problems of...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 7911Date: June 29, 1989
On June 15, 1989, with today’s approval of two quick-disbursing adjustment loans, the bank has provided a total of 15 loans to Venezuela amounting to 1.1 billion dollars over the past 28 years.
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163304Date: June 15, 1989
This case study has been prepared in response to the World Bank document "Institutional Reform in Transport. Case Studies: Task Proposal". The Bank had concluded in its 1982 study "The Railways Problem"...
Type: Departmental Working PaperReport#: INU44Date: June 1, 1989Author:
Reid, Sir Robert
On June 1, 1989, Turkey will revitalize agroindustries, which make up the largest subsector in the country’s manufacturing sector, by stimulating increased production for domestic and export markets. The...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158742Date: June 1, 1989
On May 26, 1989, Egypt will save the equivalent of 22 million dollars a year in grains, animal feed and fertilizers as a result of a project to improve storage facilities. The country will use a World...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158748Date: May 26, 1989
On May 26, 1989, China will relieve congestion on the heavily used roads between Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, and Qingdao, one of the country’s major ports, by building a 319-kilometer highway....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 158784Date: May 26, 1989
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