Incentive-based conservation is a
promising approach to tropical forest conservation,
including within multiple-use protected areas. Here we
analyze the environmental...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 144519Date: December 1, 2019
The Zambezia integrated landscape
management program (ZILMP) is a jurisdictional reducing
emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)
program designed...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160919Date: December 1, 2019
After a weak performance in the first
half of 2019, helped by monetary easing, faster public
spending and some one-off effects, economic growth in Russia
picked up in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 144672Date: December 1, 2019
The international community is currently
planning for a potential political settlement in
Afghanistan. Negotiations may bring opportunities for
significant reductions...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144174Date: December 1, 2019Author:
Haque,Tobias Akhtar ;
Do Rosario Francisco,Maria Manuela ;
Kerali,Henry G. R.
Tunisia’s has made significant
investments in infrastructure, which has contributed to
economic growth. The investments have enabled reasonably
good access to basic...
Type: ReportReport#: 156224Date: December 1, 2019Author:
Advani,Rajesh K.
Poland continues to be a European air
pollution hotspot. The impact of air pollution on health is
substantial, particularly for children and the elderly.
Nearly one...
Land management in the Middle East and
North Africa region (MENA) is facing important challenges
with degradation and needs to learn from others in order to
make progress...
Type: ReportReport#: 144391Date: November 30, 2019Author:
Ebrahim,Menaal Fatima ;
Meisner,Craig M.
The work is funded by the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), administered by The
World Bank and supported by bilateral donors. ESMAP is a
partnership...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 149878Date: November 29, 2019
The development objective of the
Strengthening Reform Management in Jordan Project for Jordan
is to strengthen coordination and delivery of policy reforms
in Jordan...
Type: Disclosable Project Appraisal Document (PAD)Report#: PAD3511Date: November 27, 2019
The main purpose of the 2019 PEFA
assessment is to provide the Government of Ukraine with an
objective and up-to-date diagnostic of the national-level
public financial...
Do regional trade agreements negatively
impact non-members? This paper revisits this long-standing
trade policy question using firm-level data and detailed
information...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9064Date: November 20, 2019Author:
Lee,Woori ;
Mulabdic,Alen ;
Ruta,Michele
Monsoon rainfall is a key driver of
economic life in rural Nepal as well as a major source of
income variability. In this paper, the authors use a newly
collected 3-year...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144231Date: November 20, 2019Author:
Jacoby,Hanan G. ;
Walker,Thomas
This review of the World Bank
Group’s (WBG) Completion and Learning Review
(CLR) covers the period of the Country Partnership Strategy
(CPS), FY13-17, as updated...
Type: CPF Completion and Learning Review ReviewReport#: 143853Date: November 20, 2019
This paper estimates private sector
credit cycles for most of the oil-importing and
oil-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa.
Credit cycles are the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9062Date: November 19, 2019Author:
Aghabarari,Leila ;
Rostom,Ahmed Mohamed Tawfick
By assisting the Government of Ethiopia
in incorporating gender-focused solutions, bolstering
markets for off-grid products, and scaling up private sector
participation...
Type: BriefReport#: 143637Date: November 14, 2019Author:
Kistler,Jacqueline Purtell
ESMAP helped to identify and implement a
successful market model for Bangladesh’s improved cookstoves
program by building on successful models within the country,
partnering...
Type: BriefReport#: 143638Date: November 14, 2019Author:
Kistler,Jacqueline Purtell
This Progress and Learning Review (PLR)
takes stock of progress of the World Bank Group (WBG)
Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) for Mongolia for the
period FY13-FY18....
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 139667Date: November 13, 2019
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