• Indonesia : Partnership for Knowledge-Based Poverty Reduction
    Partners in the Government of Indonesia face challenges in producing rigorous evidence and applying it to develop policy and program responses to reduce poverty and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135389 Date: February 28, 2014 Author: Alatas,Vivi
  • Morocco : National Initiative for Human Development
    The main development challenge was a lack of participatory mechanisms to identify peoples’ needs for programs to alleviate poverty and social exclusion. The Moroccan...
    Type: Brief Report#: 135478 Date: February 28, 2014 Author: Medouar,Mohamed ; Liverani,Andrea
  • Morocco - Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Project Phase One
    Morocco is the largest energy importer in the MENA region, but it is also seeking to reduce its dependence on imported fossil fuels, as well as its carbon footprint....
    Type: Brief Report#: 135479 Date: February 28, 2014
  • Measuring the results of World Bank lending in the energy sector
    This note is the first report of energy-sector results indicators reflecting the World Bank's broad lending patterns during FY2000-13. To compile it, energy projects...
    Type: Brief Report#: 85376 Date: February 27, 2014 Author: Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ; Portale,Elisa ; Soni,Ruchi
  • What goes around comes around : designing innovative learning events to improve relationships and program results in the Philippines SEF program
    Since its launch in 2009, the Sustainable Energy Finance (SEF) Program in the Philippines has worked with four partner banks—Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), BDO...
    Type: Brief Report#: 88578 Date: February 27, 2014 Author: Fernando-Pacua,Marianna Alfa ; Verdote,Noel Nebres
  • Streamlining Data in Kosovo: Improving Security, Saving Money
    A New National Data Center opened in Kosovo. The center will serve as a storage site for all electronic data stored by public institutions in Kosovo and will facilitate...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180375 Date: February 26, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • Transmitting renewable energy to the grid
    Many countries are scaling up their investments in renewable energy. In 2010, electricity production from renewable sources - wind, solar, biomass, biofuels, geothermal,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 85059 Date: February 24, 2014 Author: Jordan Antoine,Rhonda Lenai ; Madrigal,Marcelino
  • Understanding CO2 emissions from the global energy sector
    The energy sector contributes about 40 percent of global emissions of CO2. Threequarters of those emissions come from six major economies. Although coal-fired plants...
    Type: Brief Report#: 85126 Date: February 24, 2014 Author: Foster, Vivien ; Bedrosyan, Daron
  • Transmitting renewable energy to the grid : the case of Mexico
    Mexico's 2010 national energy strategy aims to promote sustainability and simultaneously increase energy access by increasing the share of renewable resources used to...
    Type: Brief Report#: 85061 Date: February 24, 2014 Author: Jordan Antoine,Rhonda Lenai ; Madrigal,Marcelino
  • Transmitting renewable energy to the grid : the case of Texas
    The note is based on an original work by Marcelino Madrigal and Steven Stoft entitled, "Transmission Expansion for Renewable Energy Scale-Up: Emerging Lessons and Recommendations"....
    Type: Brief Report#: 85125 Date: February 24, 2014 Author: Madrigal, Marcelino ; Jordan, Rhonda Lenai
  • Transmitting renewable energy to the grid : the case of Brazil
    Brazil has one of the world's cleanest energy portfolios, with 85.3 percent of overall energy production coming from renewable sources (compared with the worldwide average...
    Type: Brief Report#: 85060 Date: February 24, 2014 Author: Jordan Antoine,Rhonda Lenai ; Madrigal,Marcelino
  • An Optimal Economic Development Vision for Romania Must Have People at Its Core
    The World Bank has carried out a series of studies focusing on Romania’s sustainable and inclusive regional development. These analyses were completed within...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179716 Date: February 13, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • How gender affects life choices among Bulgarian Roma
    Roma represent a large ethnic minority in Bulgaria, but it is not a homogeneous group - as many as 60 different Roma groups live in the country with different culture,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180317 Date: February 12, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • Improving the business environment for tourism in Peru
    Tourism is a major revenue source for Peru, but the sector struggles to keep up with rising demand. Investment climate teams of the World Bank Group are implementing...
    Type: Brief Report#: 90698 Date: February 12, 2014 Author: Blotte,Ursula
  • Food Tops Wish List for Kyrgyz Republic’s Poor
    In the Kyrgyz Republic, millions still cannot afford to buy enough food every day. An average person who lives on less than $5 per day ends up spending nearly 55 percent...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180240 Date: February 10, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • The Face of Poverty in Europe and Central Asia
    Poverty is an especially complex issue in Europe and Central Asia, where some 80 million people live on less than $5 per day and struggle to meet basic needs. High heating...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180191 Date: February 10, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • Armenia’s Poor See Education as Means of Escape
    In Armenia, many people living outside urban areas lack proper education that can help them find jobs. Stable jobs are tough to find and the pay is often not enough...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180026 Date: February 10, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • Serbia’s Shining, but Expensive, City Lights
    As a region, Europe and Central Asia faces a unique problem in the form of long, harsh winters. This means families have to pay a lot more to stay warm and eat enough...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180572 Date: February 10, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • Young, Under-employed, and Poor in Poland
    Unemployment in Poland is about 14 percent; nearly 25 percent among young workers.High unemployment rates and lack of opportunities lead to difficult living conditions...
    Type: Brief Report#: 180657 Date: February 10, 2014 Author: World Bank
  • Sustainable Aquaculture
    Aquaculture is projected to be the prime source of seafood by 2030, as demand grows from the global middle class and wild capture fisheries approach their maximum take....
    Type: Brief Report#: 166353 Date: February 5, 2014
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