This story highlights the Improving the
energy efficiency of cities not only helps to save energy
and reduce emissions, but also can help budget-constrained
cities expand...
Seventy percent of Roma live in European
Union (EU) member states in Central and Eastern Europe
-representing Europe’s largest and poorest
minority group. Roma...
Type: BriefReport#: 180596Date: December 8, 2014Author:
World Bank
This brief focuses on the report titled
“Ukraine - Soil fertility to strengthen climate
resilience : preliminary assessment of the potential
benefits of conservation...
Type: BriefReport#: 180602Date: December 5, 2014Author:
World Bank
Innovation policy is increasingly
conceived as the shared responsibility of national and
subnational governments, yet most countries are struggling
with multilevel governance....
Type: BriefReport#: 94703Date: December 5, 2014Author:
Correa,Paulo Guilherme ;
Kapil,Natasha ;
Lasagabaster,Esperanza ;
Piatkowski,Marcin Miroslaw ;
Racine,Jean-Louis Charles
Forests mean food and livelihoods for
indigenous and forest-dependent peoples. Involving local
communities in the design, decision making and management of
forest programs...
The poor are often on the front lines of
climate change, living in the most vulnerable areas with the
fewest resources to help them adapt. As climate change
worsens,...
This story highlights the World Bank’s
Global Geothermal Development Plan has mobilized 235 million
dollars for early-stage investment in geothermal energy
projects...
The brief highlights open data can help
improve efficiency, increase accountability, catalyze
citizen participation, spark innovation, and drive economic
development....
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
In 2002, the producer company model
emerged to benefit poor farmers in India. This smart lesson,
based on the World Bank's growing experience with
producer companies...
Type: BriefReport#: 93989Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Leitch,Helen Winifred
As part of its Vision 2030, the
Government of Kenya (GOK) sought to cultivate its business
processoutsourcing (BPO) sector and related IT-enabled
services (ITES) and...
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR)
has made progress in expanding sanitation services during
the last decade, especially in urban areas. However, access
to improved...
The greenfield model embodied a new
approach to cross-border banking on the continent, designed
to reach poorer market segments via newly built retail
branches. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 128212Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Cull,Robert J. ;
Harten,Sven ;
Bull,Greta L.
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
Safe disposal of children’s feces is as
essential as the safe disposal of adults’ feces. This brief
provides an overview of the available data on child feces
disposal...
Widespread lack of improved sanitation
in rural areas of Vietnam leads to stunting, i.e. children
being too short for their age. It is not the water that
makes children...
Foreign fishing arrangements represent
mechanisms that allow international trade in fishing
services (TIFS), offering the possibility for coastal
states, especially...
Type: BriefReport#: 93027Date: December 1, 2014Author:
ARTHUR, ROBERT ;
Bostock,Timothy William ;
CLARK, LESTER D. ;
Cunningham,Stephen ;
Major,Philip John ;
Mallory, Tabitha ;
McClurg, Tom ;
Munro, Gordon ;
Rouchdi, Mohamed ;
Walmsley, Suzannah ;
Wilen,James E.
As Bhutan has progressed financially,
its health indicators have also progressed. It has achieved
significant gains in all the Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). Yet...
Type: BriefReport#: 94029Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Atwood,Stephen J. ;
Laviolette,Luc ;
Mbuya,Nkosinathi Vusizihlobo ;
Nagpal,Somil
The island states of the eastern
Caribbean are wastefully competing with each other for the
lucrative, yet stagnant, stay-over tourist trade by ‘flying
solo’: separately...
Type: BriefReport#: 96227Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Bofinger,Heinrich ;
Cubas,Diana ;
Millan Placci,Maria Florencia
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