Access to appropriate financing is often
cited as one of the biggest challenges to scaling small
businesses. This is a particularly critical problem in
climate-related...
Type: ReportReport#: 119912Date: June 1, 2018Author:
White,Justine
For green Small and Growing Businesses
(SGBs), access to finance is one of the key constraints in
scaling innovative business models. Investors, even those
with the...
A green lending product was designed to
connect green investors, peer-to-peer lenders,
intermediaries and green small and growing businesses in
order to efficiently...
This renewable energy mapping: small
hydro Tanzania study, is part of a technical assistance
project, ESMAP funded, being implemented by Africa Energy
Practice 1 (AFTG1)...
This note provides guidance on the
different economy-wide modeling tools that can be utilized
to quantify the economic effects of energy subsidy reform.
ESRAF defines...
This report summarizes emerging issues
and constraints in the energy sector related to the goal of
securing an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy
supply in...
Type: ReportReport#: 128400Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Vasquez,Claudia ;
Begolli,Rhedon ;
Van Gelder,Linda ;
Shukla,Sameer
Afghanistan has been in conflict and
internal turmoil since the early 1970s, which has resulted
in loss of life, insecurity, ethnic division, and
wide-spread damage...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0000259Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Zakharenka,Andrew ;
Rasuli,Mohammed Arif
The loss of habitats and ecosystem
services has a significant economic, social and cultural
impact in the West African coastal region. Climate change in
West Africa...
Local businesses have an important role
to play in preventing and managing natural and human induced
hazards to safeguard the West African coasts from climate
change...
The Atlantic Ocean off the coast of West
Africa has a large bounty that has provided employment for
fishermen and women, food for families, astonishing sunsets
that...
The Atlantic Ocean (off the coast of
West African) provides a multitude of economic benefits for
the local coastal communities, however overexploitation of
these benefits...
This paper deals with engaging civil
society on balancing development while enhancing the
environment. The economy, human activities and cultural
heritages should all...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126712Date: May 29, 2018
Coastal environmental degradation as a
result of erosion and flooding poses a significant threat to
the West African coastal environment, its people and its
assets;...
Mar del Plata is a tourist, coastal city
of Argentina with 700,000 inhabitants that receives more
than 1,500,000 tourists per year during the summer months.
The coastal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126747Date: May 29, 2018
The West African coastal region is rich
in natural land resources. However, increased pressure on
these resources from the rapidly growing coastal population
has degraded...
With an increasing population growth in
the West African region, coupled with human-induced and
natural hazards exacerbated by climate change, the balance
of economic,...
Environmental conditions of the coastal
regions in West Africa continue to deteriorate steadily, in
part due to rapid population growth and coastal migration
and the...
The West African coastal area hosts big
infrastructure, major industries, tourism, agriculture and
fishing activities as well as human settlements and its
forerunners...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126696Date: May 29, 2018
The project will focus on priority steps
in the reform process and target the following areas: (i)
designing regulatory and institutional reforms for the power
sector,...
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