The development objective of the Plan
PAZcifico : WSS Infrastructure and Service Delivery Project
for Colombia are (i) to improve coverage and service quality
of water...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 105369Date: May 10, 2016
The rehabilitation of irrigation systems
in Kandahar Province has led to an increase in agricultural
productivity and a significant rise in farmers’
incomes....
Type: BriefReport#: 179048Date: May 3, 2016Author:
World Bank
The chapter wise synopsis of the report
is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the
reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its
objectives....
Most public lighting is concentrated in
cities, where it can constitute up to 65 percent of
municipal electricity budgets. Compared to alternative forms
of public lighting,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 109532Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Makumbe,Pedzi ;
K. Weyl,Debbie ;
Eil,Andrew ;
Li,Jie
The report is based in the diverse
challenges faced by the environment and natural resource
sector in Argentina, especially those relating to new
challenges in the rural...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109527Date: May 1, 2016
Southern Palawan is one of the two test
sites in the Philippines for the wealth accounting and the
valuation of ecosystem services (WAVES) project. Southern
Palawan...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS0000126Date: May 1, 2016
Marine and coastal ecosystems provide a
range of critical ecosystem services, from biodiversity and
culture to carbon storage and flood protection. Yet
pollution, overfishing,...
Type: ReportReport#: 141843Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Mohammed,Essam Yassin ;
Milligan,Ben
As a country highly vulnerable to
disasters, Indonesia has made a remarkable achievement in
bringing disaster risk management to the forefront of its
development agenda....
This study is part of a technical
assistance project funded by energy sector management
assistance program (ESMAP) and implemented by the World Bank
in Madagascar, which...
The chapter wise synopsis of the report
is as follows: chapter one: (present chapter) provides the
reader with an overview of the project, its scope, and its
objectives....
This paper looks at a variety of
technical issues, challenges, and problems that arise during
systematic first registration programs, their causes and
what can be done...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112345Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Lamb, Tony ;
Endo,Victor ;
Stanley,Victoria
On Saturday February 20, 2016, Tropical
Cyclone (TC) Winston, an extremely destructive Category 5
cyclone, struck Fiji. TC Winston was the first Category 5
cyclone to...
Type: ReportReport#: 171847Date: April 30, 2016Author:
Esler,Simone Lillian
Geothermal is a renewable source energy
that can be used directly for heating or for power
production. Geothermal utilization, particularly power
production, may result...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 106570Date: April 30, 2016Author:
Fridriksson,Thrainn ;
Mateos Merino,Almudena ;
Audient, Pierre ;
Orucu,Ayse Yasemin
Over the past quarter century, Vietnam’s
agricultural sector has made enormous progress. Vietnam’s
performance in terms of agricultural yields, output, and
exports,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS15856Date: April 29, 2016Author:
Ledesma,Bernardita
Faced with the challenge of providing
adequate transport services with limited resources, cities
have, for several decades, been investing in Intelligent
Transportation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS18048Date: April 28, 2016Author:
Chen,Yang ;
Ardila Gomez,Arturo ;
Frame, G.
Approximately 4.1 million people live in
the three coastal states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana
Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche. With poverty far from
eliminated, and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS6091Date: April 26, 2016Author:
Siegmann,Katharina
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