Zambia’s agricultural sector represents
the backbone of its rural economy and holds great potential
for the entire country. Zambia’s agriculture sector faces
challenges...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135129Date: January 1, 2019
Off-grid solar (OGS) lighting in Papua
New Guinea (PNG) is a success story. Since 2012, sales have
grown at an annual average rate of 68 percent, increasing
market penetration...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141446Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Engelmeier,Tobias F. ;
Gaihre,Nabin Raj
The 2018-2019 Malawi Harmonized Health
Facility Assessment was conducted to ascertain the
availability , readiness, and quality of health service
delivery at the facility...
Pakistan’s economy has tremendous
potential for growth and expansion. A vital input for
economically and financially sound growth is an energy
sector that is sustainable,...
Melaka State, situated roughly halfway
between Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, has unique importance in
the global dialogue around the sustainability of our shared
urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 136459Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Global Platform for Sustainable Cities ;
World Bank
The World Bank is committed to
addressing gender equality in energy operations as part of
both its new gender strategy and its gender monitoring
system,known as the...
Morocco has a long history of energy and
other subsidies dating back to the 1930s. Their original
purpose was to protect vulnerable population groups and to
promote...
Type: ReportReport#: 139451Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Bousselmame,Hassan
Providing financial services is
challenging in Papua New Guinea (PNG), an island nation of
eight million in the western Pacific with a geographically
dispersed and fragmented...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141454Date: January 1, 2019
Benefit sharing is an essential aspect
of emission reductions programs (ER Programs) under both the
forest carbon partnership facility (FCPF) and BioCarbon fund
initiative...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0000589Date: January 1, 2019
The Chongqing 2035 scenario study
compares the modeled outcomes of two different development
paths, as represented by land use scenarios for projected
growth of 5.8...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135223Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Calthorpe,Peter Anthony ;
Lewis,Erica ;
Yang,Jiang
Building on its previous work on clean
cooking in Africa, the World Bank has begun to explore
intervention strategies for the clean cooking sector that
move beyond stoves...
Type: ReportReport#: 139747Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Hosier,Richard H. ;
Kappen,Jan Friedrich ;
Hyseni,Besnik ;
Tao,Nuyi ;
Usui,Kenta
This background paper is part of the
supporting material for the report “From Waste to Resource:
Shifting Paradigms for Smarter Wastewater Interventions in
Latin America...
This Annual Report describes the
activities and management of the Central Asia Water and
Energy Program (CAWEP) for the period of January 1–December
31, 2019. It is...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 151561Date: January 1, 2019
If teachers’ professional entitlements,
such as timely salaries or fair transfers, are routinely
unmet - or if they need to use informal channels to get them
- can they...
Type: BriefReport#: 158610Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Beteille,Tara ;
Pandey,Priyanka
Blockchain is an emerging technology
that offers the possibility of re-engineering economic
models and enabling the creation of markets and products
that were previously...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134063Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Miller,Douglas ;
Mockel,Peter ;
Myers,Gordon I. ;
Niforos,Marina ;
Ramachandran,Vijaya ;
Rehermann,Thomas ;
Salmon,John
This is the fourth in the series of ten
good practice notes under the Energy Sector Reform
Assessment Framework (ESRAF), an initiative of the Energy
Sector Management...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 133685Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Canpolat,Ezgi ;
Georgieva,Sophia V.
This report integrates primary and
secondary research with COM-B (Capability, Opportunity,
Motivation – Behavior) theoretical framework for
understanding and effecting...
Chongqing Municipality, located in the
southwest of inland China and upstream of the Yangtze River,
is one of the largest cities in the world, with an area of
82,400...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135225Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Salat,Serge ;
Wang,Xueman ;
Linjun,Zhou
Senegal has expanded its debt perimeter
to include para-public entities and state-owned enterprises
(SOEs) and remains at low risk of debt distress despite
short-term...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 142542Date: January 1, 2019
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