This press release announces on August
7, 2008, that the reform of heat pricing and billing is a
crucial part of overall heat reform, according to a report
recently...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163673Date: August 7, 2008
This press release announces that the
three new World Bank-financed projects, approved the day
before, will support China’s effort to improve the country’s
efficient...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163675Date: August 7, 2008
This Report was prepared by the World
Bank Group’s (Bank’s) Integrity Vice Presidency (INT). It
provides the findings of an INT administrative inquiry (the
investigation)...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 154981Date: August 1, 2008
The Shanghai Urban Environment Project
(SHUEP) for China is to provide a sustainable environmental
setting for the long-term economic and social development in
the Municipality...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 46463Date: August 1, 2008
In determining domestic water prices,
policy makers often need to use information about the demand
side rather than only relying on information about the
supply side....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4690Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Li,Honglin ;
Wang,Hua ;
Xie,Jian
Between 1990 and 2005, Vietnam achieved
an average annual growth rate of 7.5 percent in gross
domestic product (GDP). The industrial sector was the most
significant...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 45075Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Dore, Giovanna
The Shanghai Urban Environment Project
(SHUEP) for China is to provide a sustainable environmental
setting for the long-term economic and social development in
the Municipality...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 45566Date: August 1, 2008
The development objectives of the Mining
Environmental Restoration Project for Argentina are to: (a)
strengthen government of Argentina's capacity to assess
and mitigate...
This press release announces the World
Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a two million
five hundred thousand US dollars grant in additional
financing for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163616Date: July 31, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved thirty
million US dollars loan to support an environmental program
designed to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164193Date: July 31, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Directors has approved a new six
million US dollars grant for the Kyrgyz Republic to improve
real estate...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164128Date: July 15, 2008
This press release announces on July 18,
2008, that the World Bank approved the day before a loan of
thirty-five million six hundred thousand US dollars for the
São...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163771Date: July 15, 2008
This study was undertaken as a desk
review, commissioned by the World Bank (WB), and is focused
on areas of the Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI)...
It has often been assumed that payments
for watershed services (PWS) would go mostly to poor land
users, thus contributing to poverty reduction, but there has
been little...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 87059Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Pagiola, Stefano ;
Wei Zhang ;
Colom, Ale
This press release announces that the
World Bank signed its first greenhouse gas emission
reductions purchase agreement in Egypt for a municipal solid
waste composting...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164237Date: July 1, 2008
Decades of human industrial activity
have left a legacy of contaminated land throughout the
world. Virtually every industrial sector has contributed to
the problem....
Type: Global Environment Facility Working PaperReport#: 50877Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Singh, Pravina;
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors gave formal approval
to the creation of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), a
pair of international...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164301Date: July 1, 2008
There is increasing interest in climate
change issues in Indonesia particularly in the lead-up to
the COP13 or Copenhagen meeting in Bali in December 2007
when there...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 44434Date: July 1, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved fifteen million US dollars grant from
the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with the aim to
increase the efficiency...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163713Date: June 26, 2008
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