ASCE Urges Federal Adoption of Its Standard 7-88 for Reducing Wind Damage to Mobile Homes

Cornell Civil Engineer Triumphs in a League All Her Own

Women Engineers Assess their Role in the Professional World

ICED Adopts Statement on Sustainable Development

President Forms Council on Sustainable Development

Life in Lesotho

Lost But Not Least

Japan Sets the Record Straight on Tied Aid

Rushing to Russia

Big Bucks from Development Banks

Expat Happiness

Black Eye for U.S. AID?

Vietnam Market Prospects

Doing Business in...Lusaka

The Adventures of the Traveling Rep

Lost & Found: Comeback at the IDB
With the lost decade of the 1980s behind it, Latin America has emerged from its debt crisis as a project powerhouse. Fueling many of those projects is the Inter-American Development Bank...

Foreign Investment in Latin America: A Second Look
It has become common to hear that Latin America has emerged from the lost decade of the 1980s, a period when virtually every country in the region suffered from high debt, high inflation...

World Bank Update
Consists of two parts. In the first, Raghavan Srinivasan, the World Bank's chief procurement adviser, talks about issues in international contracts and procurement. He believes...

Vietnam: Worth Looking Into
If it is to enter the world economy, let alone play catch-up with the booming economies of some of its neighbors, Vietnam requires massive numbers of infrastructure projects: roads, bridges,...

The Financing Fray
Interview with two executives of the U.S. firm Morrison-Knudsen: Donn Smith, senior vice president of project finance at M-K's International Group, and Richard White, vice...

 

 

 

 

Return to search