Last year's annual review of urban lending examined the FY91 portfolio in the context of the policy orientation proscribed by the Urban Policy Paper. This year provides another year's experience in implementing...
The UNDP - World Bank Water and Sanitation Program is a collaborative initiative emerging from the International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade of the 1980s. Concentrating work on a dozen...
The Urban Policy Paper (UPP) "Urban Policy and Economic Development: An Agenda for the 1990s", proposes a policy framework and strategy to link the World Bank's assistance in the urban sector to the broader...
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...
World Bank lending in the water and sanitation sector for FY90 involved 13 projects with a total cost of $2.4 billion, of which Bank loans were $833 million. Five urban development projects contained substantial...
This report is expected to serve two purposes: to provide an overview of the status of the Bank's efforts in transport in FY90 and to identify key issues or concerns. It is a resource document in that...
This overview of FY89 analyzes lending and sector operations, draws some conclusions, and finishes with recommendations for future activities within the sector. Lending in FY87 has concentrated to a greater...
This year's review of urban development operations reflects a shift in urban policy agenda which started a few years ago. The report analyzes key objectives and sectoral responses as they emerge from FY89...
The Bank's transport sector activities during FY89 point to a continuing trend towards supporting sector development and improving the management of transport services and infrastructure in borrowing countries...
During the last five years, World Bank lending for urban development has expanded rapidly and the nature of sector work and the composition of lending operations have undergone a dramatic change. In FY88...