Rwanda submitted its intended nationally
determined contribution (INDC) to the United Nations
framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) in September
2015, setting...
Type: ReportReport#: 158022Date: March 24, 2020Author:
Cook,Gregory ;
Mulisa,Alex Muyombano ;
Nkurikiyimfura,Innocent ;
Gashugi,Elisee ;
Gaidashova,Svetlana ;
Benitez Ponce,Pablo Cesar
As cities grow and spatially expand,
agricultural land is converted into residential land. In
many developing countries, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa,
this process...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9192Date: March 23, 2020Author:
M. Picard,Pierre ;
Selod,Harris
This study proposes a novel supply-side
mechanism driving economic structural transformation: grid
electrification. Increasing electricity availability affects
the reallocation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9182Date: March 13, 2020Author:
Perez Sebastian,Fidel ;
Steinbuks,Jevgenijs ;
Feres,Jose Gustavo ;
Trotter,Ian Michael
The World Bank and the Ministry of
National Education (MoNE) of Romania through the National
Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training
Development (NCTVETD)...
Type: ReportReport#: 146785Date: March 11, 2020Author:
Sava,Alina
Roughly two billion people live in areas
that regularly suffer from conflict, violence, and
instability. Infrastructure development in those areas is
very difficult...
The first workshop held in a G20 country
achieved an excellent quality of engagement with South
African counterparts, including those from government,
industry and NGOs...
This paper provides a comprehensive
overview of electricity pricing practices and tariff
structure design in more than 60 developed and developing
countries worldwide...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9174Date: March 4, 2020Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Witte,Samantha Helen
Vietnam's power sector has
developed rapidly since the 1990s to become a top performer
among developing countries. This success has occurred mostly
under a state-owned...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9169Date: March 2, 2020Author:
Lee,Alan David ;
Gerner,Franz
Ambient air pollution (AAP) is a serious
global health problem that accounts for an estimated 4.2
million premature deaths worldwide per year. People in
Eastern Europe...
Resource recovery from wastewater
facilities in the form of energy, reusable water, biosolids,
and other resources, such as nutrients, represents an
economic and financial...
Type: ReportReport#: 146823Date: March 1, 2020Author:
Rodriguez,Diego Juan ;
Serrano,Hector Alexander ;
Delgado Martin,Anna ;
Nolasco,Daniel ;
Saltiel,Gustavo
Yemen's conflict entered the sixth
year in March. Despite generally difficult operating
environment, some entrepreneurs seized opportunities to spur
new business sectors....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 147823Date: March 1, 2020
Achieving gender equality and empowering
all women and girls is one of the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG 5). SDG7, which calls to ‘Ensure access to
affordable,...
The debt sustainability analysis (DSA)
indicates that Kyrgyz Republic remains at moderate risk of
debt distress, with some space, for both external debt and
overall...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 147941Date: March 1, 2020
JOHAR is a pioneer in enabling tribal
communities to be an integral stakeholder in development by
ensuring availability, accessibility and utilization of
water resources...
Local benefit sharing in wind and solar
projects is crucial to ensure that host and impacted
communities receive value from industrial projects located
on their lands,...
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