The Enterprise Surveys (ES) are an
ongoing World Bank project in collecting both objective data
based on firms’ experiences and enterprises’ perception
of the environment...
The need for greater efficiency and
accountability in the power sector in the Middle East and
North Africa has renewed pressure for reforms. A major new
World Bank report,...
Type: BriefReport#: 148151Date: January 31, 2020Author:
Nguyen,Tu Chi ;
Rana,Anshul ;
Fernstrom,Erik Magnus ;
Foster,Vivien
In January 2020, the energy ministers of
seven countries and territories established the Eastern
Mediterranean Gas Forum. EMGF’s objective is cooperation to
overcome...
Type: BriefReport#: 148150Date: January 31, 2020Author:
Huurdeman,Alexander Johannes
Since the first oil crisis in the 1970s,
countries have recognized the need for energy conservation
and alternative energy development. Renewables have emerged
as alternatives...
Type: BriefReport#: 146617Date: January 31, 2020Author:
Hwang,Inchul ;
Jung,Yonghun
The Enterprise Surveys (ES) are an
ongoing World Bank project in collecting both objective data
based on firms’ experiences and enterprises’ perception
of the environment...
This report focuses on the joint World
Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis for Cameroon. Cameroon
remains at high risk of external and overall public debt
distress,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 147299Date: January 30, 2020
This paper analyzes power utilities in
15 jurisdictions to understand the determinants of success
for reforms aimed at improving financial viability and cost
recovery...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9136Date: January 30, 2020Author:
Huenteler,Joern Thorsten ;
Hankinson,Denzel J. ;
Rosenthal,Nicole ;
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Kochnakyan,Arthur ;
Nguyen,Tu Chi ;
Rana,Anshul ;
Foster,Vivien
Bhutan is a small, landlocked country
deep in the eastern Himalayas between India and China. Over
a horizontal distance of just 100-150 km, the elevation
rises from...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 145069Date: January 30, 2020
Post-election violence is a common form
of conflict, but its underlying mechanisms are not well
understood. Using data from the 2007 Philippine mayoral
elections, this...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9126Date: January 29, 2020Author:
Crost,Benjamin ;
Felter,Joseph H. ;
Mansour,Hani ;
Rees,Daniel I.
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
lays out the strategic direction for the program envisaged
for the World Bank Group (WBG) with Mexico from FY2020 to
FY2025....
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 137429Date: January 29, 2020
This Togo Country Partnership Framework
(CPF) for FY17-20, was the first WBG country strategy for
Togo since 1995. The CPF marked the end of a period of
isolation and...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 139734Date: January 21, 2020
Afghanistan currently faces a sea of
uncertainty. Outcomes of the September 2019 presidential
elections are not yet known, and preliminary results have
been challenged....
Type: ReportReport#: 145306Date: January 21, 2020Author:
Haque,Tobias Akhtar
Using multiple sources of national- and
firm-level data around the world, this paper investigates
how the effects of the business environment depend on
whether the ...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9115Date: January 21, 2020Author:
Zhenwei Qiang,Christine ;
Wang,He ;
Xu,L. Colin
The Atiala-Atsinanana Emission Reduction
Program (AA-ERP)2 is a jurisdictional REDD program
pioneering jurisdictional results-based payments for
Emission Reductions...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149550Date: January 20, 2020Author:
Madagascar
Private financing and private
participation in service delivery will be required if
Sub-Saharan Africa is to achieve affordable, reliable,
sustainable, and modern energy...
In conflict-ridden Mali, where 61
percent of the population still lack access to electricity,
demand for electricity is outpacing supply, limiting the
country’s prospects...
The Bangladesh Country Partnership
Framework FY16-FY20 (CPF) discussed by the World Bank Group
(WBG) Board on April 17, 2016 focuses on the foundational
priorities of...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 141189Date: January 7, 2020
The paper makes two main contributions.
First, it analyzes net foreign assets and liabilities in
selected Arab countries over the past two decades,
emphasizing the relative...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9103Date: January 6, 2020Author:
Mohieldin,Mahmoud ;
Rostom,Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick ;
Zaki,Chahir
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