This study, which includes a pilot
intervention in Kenya—aims to further the state of knowledge
about the emerging trend of disruptive agricultural
technologies (DATs)...
The Sundarban region lies at the delta
of three mighty rivers of Ganga, Brahmaputra and Meghna. It
is one of the most, if not the most, vulnerable region
globally, to...
The summaries presented in this report
represent state and distribution of evidence of a
relationship between productivity-related efforts and the
various outcomes,...
Uganda is the largest refugee-hosting
country in Africa and the third-largest worldwide. Because
of ongoing conflicts and instability in the Democratic
Republic of Congo...
Type: ReportReport#: 147479Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Puerto Gomez,Margarita ;
Vemuru,Varalakshmi
The World Bank Group and the Republic of
Korea have benefited from a strong partnership for more than
sixty years. The World Bank Group Korea office opened in
2014 in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 145879Date: January 1, 2020
Following an unprecedented exchange-rate
depreciation in 2018 that hammered both the Turkish and the
Turkish Cypriot (TC) economies, the previous economic
recovery in...
Type: ReportReport#: 153288Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Tsoungui Belinga,Vincent De Paul ;
Aldaz-Carroll,Enrique
IFC Helps Governments to Create
Solutions to Unlock Green Building Growth. For the past
decade, IFC has provided specialized advice and technical
support to governments...
The electrification of health centers,
schools, and other public institutions has been limited by
the slow expansion of national grids, which has staggering
consequences...
Tunisia faces the challenge of improving
the quality of its public spending and maintaining fiscal
sustainability following a decade of weak economic
performance. It...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 149126Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Sy,Abdoulaye ;
Trape,Philip ;
Al Kadi,Dalia ;
Sanchez Quintela,Sonia ;
Hkiri,Marwen ;
Obayashi,Natsuko ;
El Ghandour,Ibrahim ;
Bteddini,Lida ;
Pallares-Miralles,Montserrat ;
Whitehouse,Edward R. ;
Walker,Thomas ;
Barouni,Mahdi ;
Drabble,Michael ;
Halabi,Samira ;
Zafraane,Hafedh ;
El Kadiri El Yamani,Fatima ;
Gaudin,Sylvestre ;
Ayadi,Ines ;
Larbi,Hedi ;
Basti,Ahmed ;
Chebbi,Mohamed Salah ;
Gafrej,Raoudha
This is the first of a new series of
Debt Reports for 2020 to be published online, at regular
intervals, over the course of the year. Their aim is to
provide users with...
Cities in Mozambique, particularly those
located on its coastline, are highly exposed to climate
risks and repeatedly suffer from severe floods. To support
Mozambique...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 147192Date: January 1, 2020Author:
CES Consulting Engineers Salzgitter GmbH ;
Inros Lackner SE
Energy transitions are underway in many
countries, with a significant global increase in the use of
wind and solar power playing a key role. To integrate
renewable resources...
The note describes Namibia’s approach to
support domestic economic development via mandating
investment of a percentage of the large pool of local
institutional capital...
Type: ReportReport#: 150770Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Gratcheva,Ekaterina M. ;
Stewart,Fiona Elizabeth
In the last few years, IFC has
prioritized an approach to creating bankable private sector
infrastructure opportunities that is called Scaling focusing
not on single...
This report presents the findings from
an institutional capacity assessment of Liberia's
Forestry Development Authority (FDA) based on a survey of
FDA employees. The...
Type: ReportReport#: 145952Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Bteddini,Lida ;
Kishor,Nalin M. ;
Kay,Kerenssa Mayo ;
Somani,Ravi
Doing Business was the first global
indicator created to measure aspects of regulation that
enable or hinder the owners of small and medium-size
businesses in starting,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149354Date: January 1, 2020
This brief presents the infographic of
forest income and consumption, and capital and assets of
five countries. Summaries presented here represent state and
distribution...
Economic and financial analysis provides
the bridge between the identification of technical options
and the development of bankable interconnection project
proposals...
Type: ReportReport#: 150357Date: January 1, 2020Author:
Meier,Peter ;
Alsuraih,Waleed Saleh I.
This report provides financial data
about State Enterprises and Parastatals (SEPs) for the
2011–2014 period as a means of informing future discussions
of Zimbabwe’s...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 153086Date: January 1, 2020
State Enterprises and Parastatals (SEPs)
are assets owned by the state on behalf of the public. In
common with many other countries, in Zimbabwe, SEPs play a
major role...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 153085Date: January 1, 2020
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