This Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Management Plan (IMP) provides a detailed foundation for the
World Bank Group’s (WBG) comprehensive effort to measure and
manage...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 156839Date: January 1, 2019
Water, climate and finance know no
borders. This brings challenges and opportunities: The
majority of freshwater worldwide flows in transboundary
basins and most climate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134236Date: January 1, 2019
Facilitating a dynamic and competitive
small-and medium-sized enterprises (SME) sector is a strong
priority in both developed and emerging economies. In this
context,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 143363Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Japhta,Rubin ;
Vizcarra,Vanessa ;
Bui,Thuy Thu ;
Yogi,Nyoman ;
Mel,Sokim
Resilience-building activities are
increasingly evident in development projects, and as a
result, there is a growing focus on monitoring and
evaluating the associated...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 136152Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Engle,Nathan Lee
The Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
(CPLC) is a voluntary partnership of national and
sub-national governments, businesses, and civil society
organizations aiming...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 137361Date: January 1, 2019
West Bank and Gaza is faced with natural
resources scarcity, which constrains livelihoods and
development to varying degrees. The inherent scarcity of
natural resources...
Type: ReportReport#: 139605Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Esikuri,Enos E. ;
Koyama,Ayumi ;
Morgan,Glenn S.
The Brazil Investment Plan (BIP) was
launched in 2012 as an innovative effort to expand Brazil’s
climate change policies by directly addressing drivers of
deforestation...
Type: ReportReport#: 139636Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Little,Paul Elliott
Water flows through and interconnects
the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But water and
sanitation face a crisis, and this poses one of the most
urgent issues...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149618Date: January 1, 2019
This report’s purpose is to help Lao
policy makers and stakeholders prepare for future El
Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events. It does this by
providing information...
Type: ReportReport#: 135750Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Sutton,William R. ;
Srivastava,Prashant K. ;
Rosegrant,Mark William ;
Koo,Jawoo ;
Robertson,Ricky
This report is based on the commission’s
assessment of the available evidence and literature, a
series of consultations with industry from a range of
countries and advice...
Type: ReportReport#: 146058Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Peace,Janet ;
Besley,Daniel James ;
Rhoades,Erika L. ;
Rastogi,Namrata Patodia ;
Prasad,Neeraj
The Carbon Initiative for Development
(Ci-Dev) initiated a pilot in Senegal that is focused on the
national electrification program under the Senegalese Rural
Electrification...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134101Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Spalding-Fecher,Dennis Randall ;
Greiner,Sandra ;
Krämer, Nicole ;
Mongendre, Leo ;
Diagne,Elhadji Mbaye Madien ;
Diop, Abdou
It is estimated that to facilitate the
city’s economic development rate of 8 percent to 8.5 percent
annually, the city needs a total amount of investment fund
which...
It was the summer of 1969 and the
Cuyahoga River was on fire. This wasn’t the first time the
river in northern Ohio had burned, it wasn’t even the tenth.
Every few years,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 140973Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Damania,Richard ;
Desbureaux, Sébastien ;
Rodella,Aude-Sophie ;
Russ,Jason Daniel ;
Zaveri,Esha Dilip
The World Bank, with contributions from
the CAF - Development Bank of Latin America, is promoting a
paradigm shift, moving away from considering wastewater as a
waste...
Urban areas in drought-prone regions
face serious water shortages affecting its citizens,
businesses, and industries. The greater frequency of
droughts and more erratic...
Since its establishment in 2011, OpenDRI
has successfully applied the open databased approaches
called for in the Sendai Framework to address the challenges
of reducing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 139462Date: December 31, 2018
The adoption of crowdsourced geographic
data, or volunteered geographic information (VGI), as a
valuable source of spatial data is growing at all levels of
government....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 139461Date: December 31, 2018Author:
Haklay,Mordechai (Muki) ;
Antoniou,Vyron ;
Basiouka,Sofia ;
Soden,Robert John ;
Deparday,Vivien ;
Sheely,Ryan Matthew ;
Mooney,Peter
Water supply and sanitation (WSS)
utilities are expected to become increasingly susceptible to
the expected impacts of climate change. WSS utility planners
and engineers...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 133227Date: December 29, 2018Author:
Bonzanigo,Laura ;
Rozenberg,Julie ;
Felter,Gregory Calner ;
Lempert,Robert J. ;
Reed,Patrick Michael
Zambia’s agricultural sector represents
the backbone of its rural economy and holds great potential
for the entire country. About 60 percent of the population
depends...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0000572Date: December 28, 2018
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period of January to
March 2019, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 133203Date: December 27, 2018
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