• Unlocking Clean Cooking and Heating Solutions Key to Reaching Sustainable Energy Goals
    This story highlights the Nearly 2.9 billion people in the developing world still use polluting fuels like wood, coal, and charcoal to cook and heat their homes. The...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166547 Date: May 19, 2015
  • A Look at the Impact of China's GuiGuang and NanGuang Rail Lines
    This story highlights the China's new Nanning-Guangzhou and Guiyang-Guangzhou high-speed railway (HSR) lines connect economically advanced regions with poorer and less-developed...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166750 Date: May 19, 2015
  • Where Does the World Stand in Reaching Sustainable Energy Objectives
    This story highlights the moving in the right direction, but far from reaching universal access to modern energy, doubling energy efficiency and doubling share of renewable...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166510 Date: May 18, 2015
  • Mongolia - Monthly economic brief
    Slowing industrial production growth and continued import compression indicate that Mongolia’s economic growth continues to slow. Shaper-than-expected declines in imports...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96497 Date: May 13, 2015 Author: Lee,Taehyun ; Shiilegmaa,Altantsetseg ; Batsuuri,Davaadalai ; Goh,Chorching ; Verghis,Mathew A.
  • PROFISH Publications
    This brief includes the following headlines: PROFISH fact Sheets, key PROFISH publications, global analysis, fisheries, aquaculture, and climate change, World Bank policy...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166412 Date: May 13, 2015
  • Indonesia GDP Release : 2015 First Quarter
    This issue of Indonesia GDP Release contains economic highlights, including: Q1 2015 GDP was weaker than expected and shows that the economy continued to decelerate...
    Type: Brief Report#: 131128 Date: May 13, 2015
  • More Climate Finance for Sustainable Transport
    Actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to stabilize warming at two degrees Celsius, as agreed by the international community in 2009, will fall short if they...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166442 Date: May 12, 2015
  • Infographic : 3 Steps to Zero Net Emissions
    The world is heating up as human activity increases the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This Decarbonizing development report looks at infographic three...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166525 Date: May 11, 2015
  • Zoleka Mandela on Road Safety : Ask World Leaders to Include Road Safety in the Post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals
    Every year some 1.3 million people die because of a road traffic collision, more than 3,500 deaths each day. And up to fifty million people are injured annually, resulting...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166847 Date: May 7, 2015
  • Determinants of participation and transaction costs in Rwanda's land markets
    Land markets play a limited role in subsistence economies with low skill-intensity of agricultural cultivation, equally distributed land endowments and little movement...
    Type: Brief Report#: 99426 Date: May 5, 2015 Author: Ali,Daniel Ayalew ; Deininger,Klaus W. ; Goldstein,Markus P. ; La Ferrara,Eliana ; Duponchel,Marguerite Felicienne
  • Empowering women through land tenure regularization : evidence from the impact evaluation of the national program in Rwanda
    Given that Rwanda is one of the most densely populated countries on the planet, pressure on land has long been considered as a serious hindrance to its development,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 97833 Date: May 5, 2015 Author: Ali, Daniel ; Deininger,Klaus W. ; Goldstein,Markus P. ; La Ferrara,Eliana
  • Doing More with Less : Leveraging the Private Sector for Rural Water Supply in Benin
    Working together, IFC and the World Bank helped develop public-private partnerships (PPPs) to extend the water supply into rural areas of Benin. For the first time in...
    Type: Brief Report#: 99069 Date: May 1, 2015 Author: Sylla,Mehita ; Adokpo Migan,Sylvain ; Jamieson,Jane ; Bot Ba Njock,David ; Toga Makang,Monyl Nefer
  • Romania - Macro monitoring report Q2 2015
    High frequency indicators and business surveys anticipate improvements in economic activity and employment in the second quarter of 2015. Domestic demand is projected...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96302 Date: May 1, 2015
  • Nicaragua : Eolo Wind Farm
    Globeleq Mesoamerica Energy Limited (GME Wind) is operating a 44 MW wind farm project through its wholly owned Nicaraguan subsidiary, Eolo de Nicaragua, S.A., under...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96918 Date: May 1, 2015
  • Road Safety Week : Saving Lives is Crucial for Reducing Poverty, Boosting Growth
    This story highlights every year, approximately 1.3 million people die as the result of road traffic collisions, more than 3,500 deaths per day. To raise awareness of...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166809 Date: May 1, 2015
  • Stagnant stunting rate despite economic growth in Papua New Guinea
    Despite rapid economic growth during the past decade, the stunting rate for children under 5, one of the primary indicators for child under-nutrition, is estimated at...
    Type: Brief Report#: 97508 Date: May 1, 2015 Author: Hou,Xiaohui
  • Restoring the Nile Basin
    Watershed management has come to be recognized as a critical issue in the Nile Basin. Upstream land use can cause degradation and soil erosion, resulting in lower agricultural...
    Type: Brief Report#: 102254 Date: May 1, 2015
  • Cameroon : Dibamba power plant
    In 2009, the Government of Cameroon awarded AES Dibamba power development corporation (DPDC) the right to develop an 86 megawatt (MW) thermal energy independent power...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96879 Date: May 1, 2015
  • The security and trade facilitation nexus : international trends and practices
    Improving levels of trade facilitation is one of the remaining challenges to enhancing connectivity and trade growth in South Asia, but border and internal security...
    Type: Brief Report#: 97140 Date: May 1, 2015 Author: Kerswell,Clayton Bryant ; Kunaka,Charles
  • Benefits for women in Nile economic development
    Women and girls often risk being left behind in development, not being fully informed or involved in decision making about issues that can have a real impact on their...
    Type: Brief Report#: 102255 Date: May 1, 2015
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