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  • The World Bank Research Observer 14 (2) (English)

    Road funds, user charges, and taxes, by Ken Gwilliam and Zmarak Shalizi. Between the state and the market: can informal insurance patch the safety net? By Jonathan Morduch. Using household surveys to build...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20350 Document Date: August 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Binswanger,Hans P.,Blank,Lorraine R.,Deininger,Klaus W.,Dinar,Ariel,Grosh,Margaret Ellen,Gwilliam,Kenneth M.,Irwin, Timothy,Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann,Mendelsohn,Robert,Morduch,Jonathan J.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Reilly, John,Shalizi,Zmarak,Thobani,Mateen

  • Managing government exposure to private infrastructure risks (English)

    The privatization of infrastructure should lead to the development of new infrastructure, improvements in the operation of existing infrastructure, and a reduction in budgetary subsidies. Whether countries...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 76636 Document Date: August 1, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Irwin,Timothy C.,Klein,Maximilian Michael Johann,Perry, Guiliermo E.,Thobani,Mateen

  • Paraguay - Country economic memorandum : macroeconomic policies to reactivate growth (English)

    The recent inauguration of a new administration led by President Cubas presents an opportunity to activate economic growth by implementing policies that increase economic efficiency and attract private...

    Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 18392 Document Date: March 5, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Garcia,Valeriano F.,Gonzalez Aleu,Jose Antonio,Iglesias-Palau,Augusto A,Moore,Jason Michael,Rajapatirana,Don Sarath,Sappelli, Claudio,Thobani,Mateen

  • Private infrastructure, public risk (English)

    This economic policy note presents the dilemma between private infrastructure and public risk. The note examines the fact that, increasingly, governments in many developing countries are relying on the...

    Document Type: Brief Report No.: 18576 Document Date: November 30, 1998 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thobani,Mateen

  • The World Bank research observer 12 (2) (English)

    Cofinanced public extension in Nicaragua. Reconsidering agricultural extension. Globalization and inequality: past and present. The policymaking uses of multitopic household survey data: a primer. Formal...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17527 Document Date: August 31, 1997 Disclosure Status: Author: Williamson,Jeffrey G.,Grosh,Margaret Ellen,Thobani,Mateen,Bindlish, Vishva L.,Evenson,Robert E.,Umali-Deininger,Dina,Keynan,Gabriel,Olin,Manuel,Dinar,Ariel,Picciotto,Robert,Anderson,Jock R.

  • Public policy for the private sector (English)

    Franchising and privatization; by Antony W. Dnes. Tradable property rights to water; by Mateen Thobani. Privatization through broad-based ownership strategies; by Stuart Bell. Bettering banking: privatize...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 47578 Document Date: March 1, 1995 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dnes, Antony W.,Thobani,Mateen,Bell,Stuart W., Ramachandran, S.,Charpentier,Jean-Pierre,Schenk,Kurt F.,Condon,Timothy J.,Fleisig,Heywood W.,Montes-Negret,Fernando,Keppler,Robert,Mozes,Dan, Scott, David H.

  • Public policy for the private sector (English)

    Is privatization necessary? By John Nellis. The privatization experience of Latin America, by Mateen Thobani. Privatization by capitalization- a popular participation recipe for cash-starved SOEs in Bolivia...

    Document Type: Newsletter Report No.: 45284 Document Date: December 1, 1994 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Nellis,John R.,Thobani,Mateen,Ewing,Andrew John,Goldmark,Susan G.,Lieberman,Ira W.,Bond,James P.,Anayiotos,Andrea,Habeck,Odo G., Khemani, Shyam,Klein,Michael Ulrich,Roger,Neil D.,Bacon,Robert W.,Schware,Robert,Hume,Susan Judith

  • Colombia : an analysis of agricultural pricing and trade policy (English)

    The purpose of this paper is to suggest agricultural pricing and trade policies to improve economic efficiency. It was found that while the import restrictions resulted in high prices giving incentives...

    Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: CPD8312 Document Date: October 31, 1983 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thobani,Mateen

  • Charging user fees for social services : the case of education in Malawi (English)

    The paper analyzes in detail one of the ways to reduce the problem of recurrent expenditure in social sector services - that of raising user charges. When low user charges and limits on the government...

    Document Type: Staff Working Paper Report No.: SWP572 Document Date: April 30, 1983 Disclosure Status: Author: Thobani,Mateen

  • Pakistan : an analysis of agricultural pricing policy (English)

    An examination of the structure and workings of the markets for each of the four major crops suggests changes in market structure and/or in government pricing policy that would result in increased welfare...

    Document Type: Departmental Working Paper Report No.: CPD8303 Document Date: March 31, 1983 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thobani,Mateen

  • A nested logit model of travel mode to work and auto ownership (English)

    Estimating the demand for urban passenger travel is very useful in transport planning. This study estimates a joint model of choice for both auto ownership and travel mode to work in Karachi, Pakistan...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: REP307 Document Date: August 31, 1982 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Thobani,Mateen,URB