A Multi-Donor Trust Fund, managed by the
World Bank, was established in 2009 to help the Central
Asian republics better address the energy-water nexus
challenges. The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141508Date: September 1, 2019
Achieving global goals for access to
energy and mitigation of climate change will require a
quadrupling of present levels of solar photovoltaic (PV)
generation in the...
Type: ReportReport#: 144193Date: September 1, 2019
Access to reliable electricity is
fundamental to economic growth, improvements in health and
livelihoods, and the development of societies. Around the
world nearly one...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 143342Date: September 1, 2019Author:
Lam, Nicholas L. ;
Wallach, Eli ;
Hsu, Chih-Wei ;
Jacobson,Arne ;
Alstone,Peter Michael ;
Purohit, Pallav ;
Klimont, Zbigniew ;
Sturm,Russell ;
Tomlinson,Daniel Bruce ;
Gallery, Bill ;
Gharib,Rwaida Mokbil
This technical paper investigates the
potential economic and environmental outcomesassociated with
the use of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement by participating
countries.The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 147243Date: September 1, 2019
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#: 145953Date: September 1, 2019Author:
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Bteddini,Lida ;
Kishor,Nalin M. ;
Kay,Kerenssa Mayo ;
Somani,Ravi
This technical report describes the
methodology and data used to produce small area poverty
estimates for the Palestinian territories. The first section
presents the...
The Country Opinion Survey in Belarus
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Belarus perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 150519Date: September 1, 2019
The General Secretariat of the
Government (GSG) has concluded with the World Bank (WB) an
Agreement on Technical Assistance Services to strengthen the
capacity for planning,...
Type: ReportReport#: 149177Date: September 1, 2019
The General Secretariat of the
Government (GSG) concluded with the World Bank (WB) an
Agreement for Technical Assistance Services to consolidate
the capacity of planning,...
Type: ReportReport#: 149179Date: September 1, 2019
Rising food prices, rapid urbanization,
robust economic growth, and widening inequality over the
past decade have fundamentally transformed the environment
in which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 147700Date: September 1, 2019Author:
Miller,Daniel Charles ;
Munoz Mora,Juan Carlos ;
Zezza,Alberto ;
Durazo,Josefine
Zimbabwe submitted its intended
nationally determined contribution (INDC) to the United
Nations framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC) in
September 2015, setting...
This brief contains the economic
highlights of Indonesia as of August 28, 2019. The
government allocates IDR 1,700 trillion for the national
priority programs in 2020....
This brief contains the economic
highlights of Indonesia as of August 27, 2019. Pertamina
will acquire foreign oil and gas companies as
Indonesia's oil production declines....
This report provides a retrospective
assessment of the Bank Group’s results and performance
acrossits project and program portfolio. This is relevant
for understanding...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 134586Date: August 27, 2019
This Performance and Learning Review
(PLR) assesses the implementation of the Mali World Bank
Group Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for FY16‐19. The
CPF only defined...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 138106Date: August 22, 2019
This Performance and Learning Review
(PLR) for Montenegro reviews the implementation progress to
date of the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) discussed by
the Executive...
Type: Country Partnership FrameworkReport#: 137090Date: August 20, 2019
This paper examines two new methods to
generate gridded agricultural Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
and compares the results with a traditional method. In the
case of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8985Date: August 19, 2019Author:
Thomas,Timothy S. ;
You,Liangzhi ;
Wood-Sichra,Ulrike ;
Ru,Yating ;
Blankespoor,Brian ;
Kalvelagen,Erwin
This paper discusses an example of an
early childhood development facility intervention in the
Khanty-Mansyisk region of the Russian Federation and its
potential to...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8987Date: August 19, 2019Author:
Shmis,Tigran ;
Chugunov,Dmitry ;
Ustinova,Maria ;
Kotnik,Jure
Does financial compensation for
providing environmental conservation, improve the food
security of the rural poor in the drylands of Sub-Saharan
Africa? This paper explores...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8974Date: August 12, 2019Author:
Adjognon,Guigonan Serge ;
van Soest,Daan ;
Guthoff,Jonas Christoph
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