• Closing the Seventy Billion Climate Finance Gap
    The world’s developed countries have committed to mobilize one hundred billion a year by 2020, from public and private sources, to help developing countries adapt to...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166483 Date: April 9, 2015
  • Urban Transport
    The brief highlight increasing income and urban sprawl, along with limited public transit options, has created a rapid increase in private vehicle ownership in developing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166449 Date: April 6, 2015
  • Colombia : Bogota metro
    Bogota’s city administration has prioritized two projects to improve mobility in the city: the full integration of the public transit system, integrated public transport...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96883 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Community action for health and nutrition in North East India
    Involving communities in monitoring of services is often undertaken, but involving them in directly managing health service delivery is less common. Incentivizing health...
    Type: Brief Report#: 101660 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Newton-Lewis, Tom ; Singh, Pooja ; Saith,Ruhi ; Singh, Prabal Vikram ; Gill,Kaveri
  • Cameroon : Kribi power plant
    In 2009, the Government of Cameroon awarded the Kribi power development corporation (KPDC), a special purpose vehicle set up and owned by AES Corporation and the government,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96880 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Colombia : Bogota metro
    Bogota’s city administration has prioritized two projects to improve mobility in the city: the full integration of the public transit system, integrated public transport...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96882 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Ukraine : Odessa Port
    The Government of Ukraine has awarded HPC Ukraina a contract to expand the capacity of the Container Terminal Odessa (CTO), located at the state-owned Odessa Sea Commercial...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96939 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Croatia - Macro monitoring report Q2 2015
    After twelve quarters of economic contraction year-on-year, output increased in the final quarter of 2014. Nonetheless, for 2014 as a whole, real GDP declined by 0.4...
    Type: Brief Report#: 95714 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Korea’s leap forward in green transport
    Megacities in developing countries suffer from serious traffic congestion, high levels of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and heavy air pollution. These urban areas...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96256 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Lee,Changgi ; Sung,Nak Moon ; Choi,Sang Dae ; Yi,Eun Joo Allison ; Lee,Sangjoo
  • Montenegro - Macro monitoring report Q2 2015
    Economic growth slowed to around 1.5 percent in 2014 reflecting declining exports and weak domestic demand. Although labor market indicators improved over the last year,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 95715 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Reducing road deaths : an urgent development goal
    In 2010, more than 100 countries co-sponsored a landmark resolution by the United Nation (UN) General Assembly - a decade of action for road safety to stabilize and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96253 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Bose,Dipan
  • Promoting agriculture nutrition convergence through participatory extension videos
    The nutrition challenge in South Asia is complex due to its varying scale from hunger to hidden hunger. The region has the highest rates of hunger and under nutrition...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96173 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Gandhi,Rikin Bharat ; Pandey, Ritika ; Havimo,Terhi Elisa ; Pehu,Eija
  • Côte d'Ivoire : toll bridge
    Abidjan’s bridges and infrastructure have been under severe strain following Côte d’Ivoire’s decade-long civil conflict, and the city’s acute traffic problems threatened...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96885 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Croatia : Danilo wind farm
    The Austrian renewable energy company RP-Global has developed the 43.7 MW Danilo Wind Farm near the Dalmatian city of Sibenik, which has boosted Croatia’s supply of...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96886 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Integrated logistic centers : experience from North America and options for China
    China’s shift toward accelerated economic growth in central and western provinces and increasing levels of personal income and consumption are all consistent with the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 95752 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Blancas Mendivil,Luis C. ; Bullock,Richard G. ; Ollivier,Gerald Paul
  • Adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Niger
    Today’s adolescents and youth face substantial physical, social, and economic barriers to meeting their sexual and reproductive health (SRH) potential. Niger has the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96021 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Barroy,Helene ; Cortez,Rafael A. ; Karamoko,Djibrilla
  • Kenya : Thika power
    In Kenya, where only 25 percent of the population has access to electricity, the World Bank Group is supporting the government’s least cost power development plan, which...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96906 Date: April 1, 2015
  • Dam safety in Brazil : when engineering serves society
    Over the course of history, dams have captivated the interest of society at large. Used to store large amounts of water, dams are also constructed to control flood waters...
    Type: Brief Report#: 86500 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: De Nys,Erwin ; Freitas, Paula ; Muanis Persechini,Maria Ines
  • The expanding role for open data in Burkina Faso : program gains wider use in the transitional government
    The widening drive to provide open data in the public sector has taken a new turn in Burkina Faso. Open data has always been recognized as an enabler of economic development...
    Type: Brief Report#: 96255 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Melhem,Samia ; Rifon Perez,Axel
  • Recent economic developments and prospects
    The global economy will grow 3 to 3.5 percent this year, 0.5 percent higher than last year’s 2.6 percent, and surpassing the average growth rate of 3.1 percent during...
    Type: Brief Report#: 95826 Date: April 1, 2015 Author: Ahuja,Preeti S. ; Byan, Gerard A.
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