This guidance note provides review and
recommendations for how the protective services of mangroves
and coral reefs can be measured and valued in a manner
consistent...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 103340Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Beck, M.W. and G-M Lange (Editors) ;
Wealth Accounting and the Valuation of
Ecosystem Services Partnership (WAVES)
By European standards, Romania is a low
urbanized country. There exists a rising trend towards
suburbanization, however, that is not fully captured by
Romania’s urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 104217Date: January 1, 2016
This is a background paper to the
Pacific Possible report. The Pacific Island countries
control one of the World's largest and healthiest tuna
stock. They have been...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119107Date: January 1, 2016
India is currently one of the fastest
growing major economies in the world. Sustaining a high
growth rate is believed to be critical for India to
alleviate poverty in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113212Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Sarkar,Ashok ;
Mukhi,Neha ;
Padmanaban, Padu S. ;
Kumar, Amit ;
Kumar, Kulbhushan ;
Bansal, Manoj ;
Das, Shyamasis ;
Ganta, Shuboday ;
Verma,Anurag
This guidance note talks about Rooftop
solar in Maldives. The Maldives Ministry of Environment and
Energy, with support from the World Bank and from the
Scaling Up Renewable...
Type: BriefReport#: 103935Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kohli,Sandeep ;
Braud,Arnaud
Brazil’s national water agency (ANA),
entrusted in mid-2011 with a new mandate of regulating
authority for the safety of multipurpose dams on federal
rivers, requested...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 105452Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Pedreira De Freitas De Oliveira,Paula
In 2012, the World Bank signed five
agreements with MRDPA for advisory services, out of which
one relates to the growth poles policy and to its
improvement for the programming...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 102636Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Racoviceanu,Sorina Constanta ;
Cristea,Marius ;
China,Andreea-Mirela ;
Sandu,Dumitru D. ;
Croitoru,Adina Eliza ;
Moldovan,Sandu Ciprian ;
Man,Titus-Cristian ;
Rusu,Raularian ;
Iamandi Cioinaru,Elena Catalina ;
Ciobanu, Silviu ;
Ciucanu,Ioana Raluca ;
Ionescu-Heroiu,Marcel ;
Burduja,Sebastian Ioan ;
Vințan, Adina ;
Cosma,Florin ;
Herbel,Ioana ;
Rus,Ionut
Romania’s water resources are moderate,
but sufficient with prudent resource management that will
ensure conservation and sustainability; regional and
inter-annual variation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 104218Date: January 1, 2016
The development objective of the
Strategic Cities Development Project (SCDP) for Sri Lanka is
to contribute to the improvement of urban services and
livability in selected...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 103836Date: January 1, 2016
As part of efforts to curb road deaths
and serious injuries, the World Bank Global Road Safety
Facility (GRSF) invited the International Road Assessment
Programme (iRAP)...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS13001Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Castro Lancharro,Borja
The ‘study’ constitutes the totality of
the work and includes multiple components, including
national overviews of agricultural pollution for the three
focus countries,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122931Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Magcale-Macandog, Damasa B.
Agriculture is the dominant sector in
Bhutan, providing livelihood, income, and employment to
approximately 55 percent of the population. The majority of
famers are...
Climate change threatens the objective
of eradicating poverty. Poor people and poor countries are
already vulnerable to all types of climate-related
shocks—natural...
Although Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) urban
settlements and mixed neighborhoods have a reputation for
endemic violence, many local observers report some
improvements in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 113200Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Craig,David ;
Porter,Doug ;
Hukula,Fiona
This report is part of a national
overview of agricultural pollution in the Philippines,
commissioned by the World Bank. The overview consists of
three ‘chapters’ on...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122930Date: January 1, 2016
This report contains a description of
the study area and the constructed wetland design, as well
as design prints and BOQ details in the report and Appendices.
Type: Working PaperReport#: 125121Date: January 1, 2016
This handbook is the product of a
workshop held in June 2014 with about 25 environmental
regulators from over 10 FCV-affected countries (Burkina
Faso, Central African...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 103151Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Pohl,Wolfhart ;
Humphry,Ella Victoria
The small Pacific Island Countries
(PICs) face unique constraints which pose public financing
challenges beyond those faced by other small island
developing states....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 121941Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Edwards,Kim Alan ;
Obeyesekere,Sheannal Anthony Manindha
Central Asia (CA) was impacted adversely
by significant economic shocks during 2015. The region
experienced a series of external shocks from late 2014
through 2015,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 112964Date: January 1, 2016
The Niger River and its tributaries is a
vital lifeline providing drinking water, irrigation,
aquaculture, energy, and transport throughout the nine
countries. Pove...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 102849Date: January 1, 2016
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