• Green growth in action : leaping forward in green transport - the case of Korea
    What do Bangkok, Cairo, Lagos, Mumbai, and Nairobi have in common? These megacities, like others in burgeoning emerging market economies, are magnets for people seeking...
    Type: Brief Report#: 100325 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Lee,Changgi ; Vandycke,Nancy L. ; Sung,Nak Moon ; Choi,Sang Dae ; Yi,Eun Joo Allison ; Lee,Sangjoo
  • Monitoring and evaluation framework
    All ARTF projects are implemented by government ministries and agencies. Government is therefore primarily responsible for monitoring project implementation and progress...
    Type: Brief Report#: 99306 Date: January 1, 2015
  • Myths and facts about female directors
    Women in the workforce are key to healthy economies, but this does not mean that adding more women to the board will necessarily increase shareholder value or that the...
    Type: Brief Report#: 99388 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Adams, Renee B.
  • Bangladesh - Project snapshot 2015 - 2016
    Agriculture contributes 20 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and employs close to half of the labor force in Bangladesh. However, the country is vulnerable to...
    Type: Brief Report#: 113711 Date: January 1, 2015
  • Gender
    For the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), addressing gender issues through supported projects is critical to the overall performance of the portfolio, and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 99305 Date: January 1, 2015
  • Implementing rooftop solar projects : public-private partnerships in India
    This brief showcases the challenges of structuring and developing rooftop solar photovoltaic projects using the public-private partnership model. The case study focuses...
    Type: Brief Report#: 100987 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Sinha,Pankaj ; Sethi,Shaina
  • Scaling up access to electricity : pay-as-you-go plans in off-grid energy services
    Although the payment models offered by off-grid energy companies are less flexible than those implemented with great success by mobile telephone companies, they may...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93786 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Bareisaite,Asta ; Moreno,Francisco Alejandro
  • Can multi-stakeholder committees create accountability : lessons from community scorecards in local health services
    The non-state actor's component (NSAC) of the demand for good governance (DFGG) project resulted in citizen or community monitoring of over 300 schools, 100 health centers,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 92209 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Latif, Mehr ; Murphy, Gavin ; Plummer, Janelle [editor]
  • The World Bank in Indoneisa : finance and investment climate
    A well-functioning financial system would help to accelerate economic growth, make that growth more equitable by spreading the benefits to all sections of society, reduce...
    Type: Brief Report#: 94621 Date: January 1, 2015
  • Building financial resilience against natural hazards in Panama
    Panama is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, such as floods, landslides, earthquakes, windstorms, wildfires, and storm surges, which threaten the country's infrastructure...
    Type: Brief Report#: 94990 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Rahman,Shaela
  • Papua New Guinea Energy Sector Development Project
    The objectives of the Energy Sector Development Project are, through technical assistance, to strengthen the policy development and strategic framework for renewable...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93490 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Aiello,Roberto Gabriel
  • Papua New Guinea - Rural Service Delivery and Local Governance Program : improving service delivery for rural communities
    Papua New Guinea has experienced strong, resource-led, economic growth over the past 10 years, yet basic development outcomes have remained the same or improved only...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93518 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Johnson,Erik Caldwell
  • Assessment of health financing options : Papua New Guinea
    This report examines three broad health financing options in PNG: (i) increasing the level of general revenue spending; (ii) introducing contributory, insurance-based...
    Type: Brief Report#: 92720 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Hou,Xiaohui ; Somanathan,Aparnaa
  • Papua New Guinea Urban Youth Employment Project (UYEP)
    The main objective of the UYEP is to provide disadvantaged urban youth between the ages of 16 and 35 in the National Capital District (NCD) with income from temporary...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93491 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Sultan,Sonya M.
  • Helping small island states cope in the aftermath of natural disasters
    Every year on average, natural disasters cause damages worth an estimated US$284 million in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs). Over any 50 year period, there is a...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93910 Date: January 1, 2015
  • Stakeholders engage to build Belize’s climate resilience
    With the increasing incidence of climate-related disasters, the Government of Belize is working to improve its resilience by transforming the country’s approach to economic...
    Type: Brief Report#: 97325 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Bood,Nadia Desiree
  • Expanding protection to the poor and vulnerable
    A significant share of Iraq's population consumes at levels close to the poverty line and remains vulnerable to falling into poverty. In other words, a small increase...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93861 Date: January 1, 2015
  • The economic impact of the Syrian war and the spread of ISIS
    The Syrian war and the subsequent emergence and spread of the Islamic State (ISIS) have transformed the Levant in ways one could not have imagined prior to 2011. As...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93881 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Ianchovichina,Elena ; Ivanic,Maros
  • Integrating variable renewable energy into power system operations
    Wind and solar energy is a fast-growing share of the global energy mix. But integrating them into power-system operations requires significant adaptations to compensate...
    Type: Brief Report#: 93785 Date: January 1, 2015 Author: Chatopadhyay, Debabrata ; Nikolokakis, Thomas
  • Finance for energy efficient street lighting
    Energy efficiency upgrades to street lighting systems are a simple way to improve public services while generating long-term cost savings for municipalities. Projects...
    Type: Brief Report#: 94823 Date: January 1, 2015
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