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    Improving water resource management in Bangladesh

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    The management of water resources has become a critical need in Bangladesh because of growing demand for water and increasing conflict over its alternative uses.As populations expand and make various uses of water, its growing scarcity becomes a serious issue in developing countries such as Bangladesh.
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    Essentials for sustainable urban transport in Brazil's large metropolitan areas

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Four pillars for sound development and longterm sustainability of the urban transport sector in large metropolitan areas.Before financing major urban transport projects, decisionmakers should attempt to put in place the basic elements for long-term sustainability of the sector.
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    Is commodity - dependence pessimism justified? : critical factors and government policies that characterize dynamic commodity sectors

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Commodity dependence does not necessarily lead to low income and export growth. Government policies that encourage dynamic and viable commodity sectors include:Eliminating price controls and state monopolies. Promoting research and extension. Developing transport and communications infrastructure. Enticing foreign capital and technology transfers.
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    Logistical constraints to international trade in the Maghreb

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    To strengthen strategic alliances with European trading and industrial partners, Maghreb firms should rethink the logistics of their distribution strategy in Europe, taking recent changes into account and adjusting their trade practices.
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    Indonesia's palm oil subsector

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    A recommendation: Indonesia should repeal its export tax on crude palm oil and discontinue buffer stock operations and directed sales from public estates.
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    Economic Regulation of Water Companies

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    The key to effective regulation of water companies is to generate information that allows the regulator to make good rules and allows the interest groups to watch out for improprieties by the regulator.Both public and private water companies need regulation (of water price and quality) when real competition is not feasible.
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    Risk, taxpayers, and the role of government in project finance

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    A perennial question has been the relative cost of public and private finance for investment projects in infrastructure. Klein argues that the apparent cheapness of sovereign funds stems from taxpayers' not being remunerated for the contingent liability they effectively assume.
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    Shifting responsibility for social services as enterprises privatize in Belarus

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    In former command economies, such as Belarus, the process of enterprises shedding their "social assets"is seen as necessary to the transition to a market economy. The problem for social policy in transition economies is whether and how to continue supplying those social services after enterprises no longer provide them.
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    Why paper mills clean up : determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Clean production is not uncommon even in very poor countries such as Bangladesh. Even when there is no formal regulation of pollution, large, efficient, domestically owned plants operating near relatively affluent communities have demonstrated excellent environmental performance. The same cannot be said for manufacturing facilities near poor communities.
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    The Polish experience with bank and enterprise restructuring

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1997
    Poland's program tackled simultaneously bank and enterprise restructuring and dealt decisively with the bad debt stock and flow problem with measures to improve incentives and institutional skills. Among transition economies, Poland was a pioneer in bank and enterprise restructuring.

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