Media Dissemination of Road Sector Reforms
This note is based on a paper delivered by Sam M. Mwale at the RMI/ RTTP 11th Coordinating Committee Meeting in Kampala, October 1996. Mr. Mwale is a policy analyst with the Policy Research Group,…
January 01, 1997
Road Sector Reform: A Tale of Two Countries--(Part 2) Burkina Faso: Deliberate Evolution
The note is the second part of a series intended to share information about issues raised in various Sub-Saharan Africa Transport Policy Program (SSATP) reports, and it addresses Burkina Faso's…
December 31, 1996
Promoting Policy Reforms for Effective Transport Services in COMESA Countries
Concerned by the poor state of the road network in most of its member countries, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) has been promoting reforms to help regional integration for…
May 01, 1996
African Road Funds: What Works and Why?
This paper reviews experience with the operation of selected African road funds. Although most African road funds suffer from systematic problems, this review identifies examples of best practice and…
February 28, 1995
Management and Financing of Roads: An Agenda for Reform
Road transport is the dominant mode of transport in sub-Saharan Africa, carrying close to 90 percent of the region's passenger and freight transport, and providing the only access to rural…
February 28, 1995
Commercializing Africa’s Roads: Transforming the Role of the Public Sector
During the past 20 years, nearly a quarter of the capital invested in Sub-Saharan Africa's roads has been eroded through insufficient maintenance. To restore economically justified roads and prevent…
January 01, 1994
Road User Taxation in Selected OECD Countries
The objective of this paper is to examine issues related to road user taxation, in a selection of "most successful countries". On the basis of six case studies, it provides a comparative review of…
July 31, 1993