The development objective of the
Demonstrating and Promoting Best Techniques and Practices
for Managing Healthcare Waste and Polychlorinated Biphenyls
(PCBs) Project...
Poorly implemented energy subsidies are
economically costly to taxpayers and damage the environment.
This report describes the emerging lessons that could help
policy...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6122Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Vagliasindi,Maria
The objective of this report is
two-fold. First, it is to raise awareness of the health and
economic damages of industrial air pollution in key oblasts
and to develop...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 73471Date: July 1, 2012
The development objective of the Solid
Waste Management Project for West Bank and Gaza is to
improve solid waste disposal services in the middle and
southern Gaza strip....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 71594Date: July 1, 2012
Argentina is one of the world's
largest biodiesel producers and the largest exporter, using
soybeans as feedstock. Using a computable general
equilibrium model that...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6124Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Chisari, Omar O. ;
Romero, Carlos A. ;
Timilsina, Govinda
This public financial management
assessment for San Juan has three main objectives: (i) to
provide the provincial governments with a reference tool for
dialogue and...
Type: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentReport#: 72400Date: July 1, 2012
The assessment for the Province of
Buenos Aires was prepared jointly by the Ministry of Finance
of the Province of Buenos Aires and the World Bank (WB) on
the basis...
Type: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentReport#: 72401Date: July 1, 2012
This public financial management
assessment for Cordoba has three main objectives: (i) to
provide the provincial governments with a reference tool for
dialogue and action...
Type: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentReport#: 72402Date: July 1, 2012
One key contentious issue in climate
change negotiations is the huge difference in carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions per capita between more advanced
industrialized countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6115Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Timilsina, Govinda R.
The development objective of the Solid
Waste Management Project for West Bank and Gaza is to
improve solid waste disposal services in the middle and
southern Gaza strip....
This is an overview of the causes as
well as possible solutions for traffic congestion in Cairo,
taken from a Cairo Traffic Congestion Study (Phase 1) which
is available...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 71852Date: July 1, 2012
The assessment for the Province of Santa
Fe was prepared jointly by the Ministry of Finance of the
Province of Santa Fe and the World Bank (WB) on the basis of
findings...
Type: Country Financial Accountability AssessmentReport#: 72404Date: July 1, 2012
The overall impacts on the Brazilian
economy of reducing CO2 emissions from energy use and
industrial processes can be assessed using a recursive
dynamic general equilibrium...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6135Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Chen, Y.-H. Henry ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
Ratings for the Northern Negros
Geothermal Project for Philippines were as follows: outcomes
were unsatisfactory, the Bank performance was moderately
satisfactory, and...
Like other regions, Eastern Europe and
Central Asia is vulnerable to climate change and its
potential socioeconomic impacts. While all countries are
facing warmer temperatures,...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 78416Date: June 28, 2012
The main objective of the assessment is
to determine how Poland's environmental and social
safeguard systems can be used in place of the corresponding
Bank safeguards,...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 78415Date: June 26, 2012
Adaptation to climate change is a
concern for all countries, and particularly for highly
vulnerable countries in the developing world. This paper
addresses the viability...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69976Date: June 25, 2012Author:
Petersen, Lorenz ;
Gurenko, Eugene ;
Hoeppe, Peter ;
Bayer, Joanne
The development objectives of the
Emergency Recovery and Disaster Management Project are to:
1) restore and strengthen priority, irrigation, electricity,
water, and...
As countries develop, the demand for
water increases while water supply becomes less certain and
is often not enough to meet demand. In general, pressures
from both...
The objectives of the study are to
assess the impact of operational efforts in farmland
restructuring and sustainable agricultural land management
on vulnerability amongst...
Type: Risk and Vulnerability AssessmentReport#: AAA81Date: June 21, 2012
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