Yunnan is situated in the Southwest of
China, adjacent to the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou,
Guangxi and Tibet, and with external borders with Laos,
Burma, and Vietnam....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 48031Date: March 1, 2009
This study reviews the prospects of wind
power at the global level. Existing studies indicate that
the earth's wind energy supply potential significantly
exceeds global...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4868Date: March 1, 2009Author:
van Kooten, G. Cornelis ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
This press release announces that the
World Bank on February 24, 2009, approved an additional
finance of seventy-one million five hundred thousand US
dollars to the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165822Date: February 24, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Vice President for Europe and Central Asia
approved the Armenia Geothermal Energy Development project
on February...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165566Date: February 24, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board approved on February 24, 2009, forty-six
million US dollars loan to the State of Ceará in
Northeastern Brazil...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165667Date: February 24, 2009
This primer is a tool for city
governments in the East Asia Region to better understand how
to plan for climate change impacts and impending natural
disasters through...
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors on February 17,
2009, approved three hundred thirty million US dollars to
Peru to strengthen...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165762Date: February 17, 2009
This report addresses a pressing issue
in Mexico's electricity sector the large and growing
subsidies to residential consumers and their regressive
incidence across...
Type: Energy-Environment ReviewReport#: 47107Date: February 4, 2009Author:
Komives, Kristin ; Johnson, Todd M. ;
Halpern, Jonathan D. ; Luis, Jose Aburto ; Scott, John R.
Since the early 1980s, the Government of
Niger and its development partners have invested more than
200 billion West African Francs (FCFA) in programs will
promote sustainable...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 48230Date: February 1, 2009
There has been increased interest
throughout the world in improving transit services through
the introduction of intelligent transportation systems
(ITS). ITS can be...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69262Date: February 1, 2009
There has been increased interest
throughout the world in improving transit services through
the introduction of intelligent transportation systems
(ITS). ITS can be...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69262Date: February 1, 2009
Despite the government's best
efforts, forests in India diminished for decades due to
illegal harvesting, uncontrolled cutting of minor (or
non-timber) forest products...
Type: BriefReport#: 83201Date: February 1, 2009Author:
Ghosh, Sanchita ;
Milne, Grant ;
Kalaghatgi, Ramesh
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Directors approved an additional credit
to the Republic of Moldova in the amount of ten million US
dollars...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167114Date: January 29, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank has approved one hundred ten million US dollars
loan to help Indonesia boost its income from revenues
through an overhaul...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165746Date: January 15, 2009
Based on analysis of recent data on the
evolution of global temperatures, snow and ice covers, and
sea level rise, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC)...
Type: PublicationReport#: 47604Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Torre, Augusto de la; Fajnzylber, Pablo;
Nash, John;
This study analyzes a range of energy
efficiency options available in Mexico, including
supply-side efficiency improvements in the electric power
and oil and gas industries...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 51342Date: January 1, 2009
This report provides updated poverty
estimates for Cambodia using newly available data from the
2007 Cambodia Socio?Economic Survey (CSES). The report finds
that poverty...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 48618Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Knowles, James C.
The brief includes the following
headings: adaptation to climate change must be integrated
into development plans and programs; Indonesia is extremely
vulnerable to...
Unlike income generated from crop
production, which is seasonal in Rajasthan, dairying is a
source of a stable income bringing in cash on a daily basis
and providing...
Type: BriefReport#: 83200Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Ghosh, Sanchita ;
Das, Samik Sundar ;
Khan, Asmeen
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