This brief summarizes an analysis of 37
winning bids for utility-scale solar PV plants procured
through auctions in 13 developing countries between 2013 and
2016. For...
In the island nation of Sri Lanka,
approximately 38 per cent of the total labor force is
engaged in agriculture. While rice remains the main crop and
farming rice remains...
This brief talks about index insurance
in Mozambique. In Mozambique, agriculture accounts for
approximately 32 percent of Gross domestic product (GDP) and
involves over...
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
partners with local financial institutions to increase
access to finance for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)
and to expand...
Type: BriefReport#: 119856Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Kopyta,Maria ;
Domenech Porcar,Luis
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in
the heart of West Africa. Covering an area of 264,000 square
kilometers, agriculture comprises the single largest
economic sector,...
The record of concession arrangements in
stimulating faster and more effective rural electrification
in Sub-Saharan Africa is mixed at best: More concessions
have failed...
Over the past decade, the debate on
access toenergy has tended to lean mostly on
technology,finance, and policy as key drivers. Thanks to
this approach, there has been...
Type: BriefReport#: 115075Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Colombo,Emanuela ;
Mattarolo,Lorenzo ;
Politecnico di Milano ;
Bologna,Stefano ;
Masera,Diego
This brief is to support drought risk
reduction and decision-making to build resilience, an open
access and open source crop risk monitoring system, 4Crop,
has been...
This brief examines whether labor market
imperfections stop microenterprises from growing, using an
experiment in Sri Lanka that provided wage subsidies to
small firms...
Type: BriefReport#: 111734Date: January 1, 2017Author:
De Mel,Suresh ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Woodruff,Christoper
Pakistan's natural catastrophes
raise a major financing challenge: the losses from flooding
alone cost 3–4 percent of the federal budget, with losses
from natural disasters...
The West African coastal zone is home to
a bounty of natural resources, or “coastal naturalcapital”
that is essential to ecosystem services that support coastal
community...
Geothermal heat is increasingly being
used around the world to produce electricity in an
environmentally friendly way. Current technology could
potentially produce more...
Type: BriefReport#: 113111Date: January 1, 2017Author:
La Rocca,Roberto ;
Johansen,Peter ;
Berman,Laura Wendell ;
Jayawardena,Migara
A report on food safety was produced by
the World Bank and partners at the request of the Government
of Vietnam. This policy brief summarises the key findings
and recommendations.
As Tunisia emerges from the Arab Spring,
its new constitution explicitly recognizes the rights of the
child and the responsibility of both the State and parents
to act...
Thousands of messages per hour are
shared on Twitter during flood events. These include early,
on-the-ground observations accessible in real-time. The
arguably lifesaving...
In India’s coastal regions of Tamil Nadu
and Puducherry, over 200,000 families depend on fishing and
related activities for their livelihoods. The coastal
regions are...
Type: BriefReport#: 114476Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Urrutia Duarte,Ignacio M.
As activity ramps up in climate
innovation for developing countries, organizations are
finding that attracting quality talent and companies to such
efforts is both a...
Type: BriefReport#: 115293Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Lin, Rosa ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont ;
Doretti,Diletta ;
Ehst, Mike
Easy Paisa of Pakistan uses 75,000
agents and 6,000 plus 1-link enabled automated teller
machines (ATMs) to facilitate 1.2 million Benazir income
support payments (BISP)...
Type: BriefReport#: 117397Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Biallas,Margarete O.
Women receiving unconditional cash
transfers in northern Nigeria worked more, particularly, in
their own businesses, spent more on consumption, were more
food secure,...
Type: BriefReport#: 119101Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Bastian,Gautam Gustav ;
Goldstein,Markus P. ;
Papineni,Sreelakshmi
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