Risk-aversion has generally been found
to decrease in income. This may lead one to expect that poor
countries will be more risk-averse than rich countries.
Recent comparative...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7137Date: December 1, 2014Author:
Beyene, Abebe ;
Bluffstone, Randall ;
Dissanayake, Sahan ;
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe ;
Martinsson, Peter ;
Mekonnen, Alemu ;
Vieider, Ferdinand M.
The energy sector management assistance
program (ESMAP) is a global knowledge and technical
assistance program administered by the World Bank Group
(WBG) and supported...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 95825Date: December 1, 2014
This report is an output of a World Bank
study whose aim is to provide guidance to developing coastal
countries in identifying the means to secure optimal,
equitable,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 92622Date: 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.
The Zimbabwe Water Forum provides a
platform for Government and Development Partners to share
international best practices in the water sector between
Zimbabwe and other...
Type: BriefReport#: 103630Date: November 30, 2014Author:
Webster,Michael
Every policy relies on explicit or
implicit assumptions about how people make choices. Those
assumptions typically rest on an idealized model of how
people think, rather...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 92863Date: November 25, 2014Author:
World Bank
The Wealth Accounting and Valuation of
Ecosystem Services (WAVES) Project for Philippines will
support institutionalization of selected modules of the
System of Environmental-Economic...
The Republic of Armenia is facing a
number of emerging challenges in the water sector. Though
overall water resource availability in the country is good,
the country's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91641Date: November 4, 2014Author:
Yu,Winston ;
Cestti,Rita E. ;
Lee, Ju Young
Milk is an important source of cash and
nutrients for many households in developing countries. Yet,
the understanding of the role of dairy production in
livelihoods...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7114Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Boulaga,Amadou Adamou Kalilou ;
Federighi,Giovanni ;
Hiernaux, Pierre ;
Zezza,Alberto
Is Africa's rural economy
transforming as its economies grow? This paper uses
comparable income aggregates from 41 national household
surveys from 22 countries to explore...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7108Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Davis,Benjamin K. ;
Di Giuseppe,Stefania ;
Zezza,Alberto
This document provides a summary of the
environmental impact assessment and social assessment report
conducted for the Huainan Mining Area Rehabilitation Project
("Project"),...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 93115Date: November 1, 2014
In many developing countries,
consumption of animal source foods among the poor is still
at a level where increasing its share in total caloric
intake may have many...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7111Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Azzarri,Carlo ;
Cross, Elizabeth ;
Haile, Beliyou ;
Zezza,Alberto
This paper investigates the
effectiveness of protected areas in slowing tropical forest
clearing in 64 countries in Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin
America for the period...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7091Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Blankespoor,Brian ;
Dasgupta,Susmita ;
Wheeler, David
Evidence from the most recent World
Health Organization (WHO) survey on the global burden of
disease shows that nearly 600,000 Africans die annually and
millions more...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 98664Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Kammila,Srilata ;
Kappen,Jan Friedrich ;
Rysankova,Dana ;
Hyseni,Besnik ;
Putti,Venkata Ramana
This report is prepared within the World
Bank’s energy sector management assistance program (ESMAP)
project: renewable energy mapping: solar Zambia. Phase two
of the...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 111459Date: November 1, 2014
This paper assesses the impact of three
methodologies of food data collection on the welfare
distribution, and poverty and inequality measures in Niger.
The first methodology...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7090Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Yacoubou Djima,Ismael ;
Steele,Diane E.
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