This Results Profile focuses on meeting
India’s demand for electricity. India faces an acute deficit
of electric power. Almost half of all Indian households do
not have...
The development objective of the Oum Er
Rbia Sanitation Project for Morocco is to improve the access
to sustainable sanitation and pollution reduction services
for the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 53686Date: March 8, 2010
This Result Profile talks about managing
water in Morocco. Scarce and unevenly distributed rainfall
has made water a key economic and social development issue.
The country...
This Result Profile talks about
Turkey's reforms for a sustainable energy future.
Turkey faced increasing domestic energy demand and rapidly
growing greenhouse gas emissions,...
The World Bank's Oil, Gas, and
Mining Policy Division (COCPO) and the Forum of Federations,
with co-sponsorship from Norwegian Agency for International
Development (NORAD),...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68776Date: March 4, 2010
In the metropolitan Manila area,
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD)
has supported two utilities in expanding affordable and
efficient water...
Being located at the central area of
Southwest of China, Zhaotong Municipality is the
"Dragon tail" of so call "the Changjiang
Economic Belt". It is the important corridor...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 53767Date: March 1, 2010
Supply-demand tension has taken its toll
in various countries around the world over the last several
years. Governments and utilities have faced gaps between
electricity...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81729Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Audinet,Pierre ;
Rodriguez Pardina,Martin Augusto
Given Uruguay's comparatively small
size (its population is just over 3 million people), it is
not surprising that its public utilities - water,
electricity, and until...
More aggressive efforts to increase the
efficiency of energy use are now an urgent imperative for
Vietnam. Energy demand tripled over the last decade, and it
is likely...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61153Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Ang Co, Alberto U. ;
Singh,Jasneet ;
Taylor,Robert P.
Bulgaria's efforts to transition to
a market economy were rewarded by membership in the European
Union (EU) in 2007 but the country still faced steep
challenges to elevate...
In the past, Colombia faced urban
transport problems that significantly lowered the quality of
life of urban Colombians. Starting in the late 1990s, the
programa nacional...
In view of the escalating global
problems associated with the environment, energy, and
natural resources, especially the increasing sign of global
climate change, wind...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 54746Date: March 1, 2010
Despite a once fast-growing economy,
Gujarat province was facing an economic decline that was not
being helped by its poor road conditions and a growing
population of...
International Bank for Reconstruction
and Development (IBRD) support to Turkey's energy
reforms have helped the government turn a monolithic,
state-run sector into a...
This is the sixteenth report of the
International Environmental and Social Panel of Experts
(POE) for the Nam Theun 2 Multipurpose Project in the Lao
People's Democratic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70886Date: February 25, 2010Author:
Mcdowell,David K. ;
Scudder,Thayer ;
Talbot,Lee M.
This Results Profile focuses on
transport in Colombia. Public transportation in Colombia was
traditionally perceived as inefficient, unsafe, and
polluting. The streets...
Vietnam's forests remain dependent
on public resources, including international development
assistance, for the delivery of public and private services
that include...
Type: Other Agricultural StudyReport#: 53101Date: February 16, 2010
The objective of the Eskom Power
Investment Support Project for South Africa is to enable
Eskom to enhance its power supply and energy security in an
efficient and sustainable...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 53139Date: February 8, 2010
At the end of 2009, the electric power
sector in Jordan comprised two operating private power
generation companies, a state-owned generation company, a
state-owned transmission...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81746Date: February 1, 2010
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