Interest Bearing Notes is a product of
the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World
Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on
research by the team,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 148094Date: April 1, 2020
The report is organized as follows.
Section one introduces the country context, section two
provides a historical context and reviews the public
policies that have affected...
The Benefit Sharing Plan (BSP) has been
developed in anticipation of benefits to be generated
resulting from the implementation of the Emission Reductions
(ER) Program...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149950Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Nepal,Ministry of Forests and Environment
In February 2020, the COVID-19
(coronavirus) outbreak interrupted the recovery that was
underway in the Europe and Central Asia region earlier in
the year. Given the...
This Investment Policy and Regulatory
Review (IPRR) presents information on the legal and
regulatory frameworks governing foreign direct investment
(FDI) and competition...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 147469Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Kher,Priyanka ;
Kusek,Peter ;
Eltgen,Maximilian Philip ;
Raslan,Azza Anwar Ahmed
Carbon market simulations are programs,
models, virtual environments, and/or games that allow
stakeholders to participate in a simulated process of
designing or participating...
The development objective of Carbon Fund
Emission Reductions Program for Fiji is to maximize climate
co-benefits and integrate initiatives that address
vulnerabilities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 148296Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Fiji
Dutch Disease is a condition in which a
sudden increase of resource wealth from an extractive sector
(such as oil, gas, coal, or mining) undermines other areas
of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 147609Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Mendez Ramos,Fabian
The Kyrgyz Republic has experienced
modest and volatile economic expansion since the economy
bottomed out from the transition recession in 1995, when GDP
amounted to...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 147112Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Mbowe,Appolenia ;
Dubashov,Bakyt ;
Gassner,Katharina B. ;
Ferrantino,Michael Joseph ;
Islam,Roumeen ;
Sahovic,Tarik
China’s recently established Ministry of
Natural Resources (MNR) has been given the task of
developing the country’s first National Territorial and
Spatial Plan (NTSP)....
Madagascar, classified as having a
medium level of debt carrying capacity, is assessed at low
risk of external debt distress, in line with the most recent
debt sustainability...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 149443Date: April 1, 2020
Sierra Leone’s risk of external debt
distress and overall risk of debt distress are both assessed
as high, unchanged from the 2018 debt sustainability
analysis (DSA)....
Type: Board ReportReport#: 151897Date: April 1, 2020
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is
severely affecting global economic activity as countries
race to stem the spread of the virus. A sharp rise in risk
aversion has...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 148161Date: April 1, 2020
The energy sector worldwide faces
growing challenges related to rising demand, efficiency,
changing supply and demand patterns, and a lack of analytics
needed for optimal...
Type: BriefReport#: 151367Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Makala,Baloko ;
Bakovic,Tonci R.
The overall goal of the green bond
market is to promote and amplify the important role that
financial markets can play in helping to address
environmental issues. Successively,...
This is a regional report approved
through Bank Decision Review in early 2019 under the
Regional SLCP study for SAR. It is now reviewed and cleared
by Indian Government,...
The Country Opinion Survey in Ghana
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Ghana perceive the WBG.
It provides the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168387Date: April 1, 2020Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The Pacific Data Hub - Microdata Library
(PDH-ML) is a central repository for Pacific Island
statistical microdata, reports and documents. It is an
online cataloguing...
80 percent of Niger’s labor force is
engaged in agriculture and livestock, accounting for 40
percent of the GDP. However, productivity and yields are low
due to limited...
This note outlines barriers to
competition in product markets based primarily on the
screening of Serbian regulations using the OECD Product
Market Regulation methodology...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 147152Date: March 26, 2020Author:
Drozd,Maciej Adam ;
Sipka,Olga
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