This report explores options to scale up
and accelerate the energy transition to cleaner electricity
and district heating generation mixes and reconcile the
government’s...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132871Date: December 11, 2018Author:
Berrah,Noureddine ;
Wang,Xiaodong
This World Bank Group Boards'
calendar covers the period of December 2018 to February
2019, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132846Date: December 11, 2018
Electricity shortages are among the
biggest barriers to South Asia’s development. Some 255
million people—more than a quarter of the world’s off-grid
population—live...
Type: PublicationReport#: 132854Date: December 11, 2018Author:
Zhang,Fan
Climate auctions are an innovative
climate finance mechanism, with high potential to support
nationally determined contribution (NDC) implementation and
deepening through...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132826Date: December 10, 2018Author:
Ward,John ;
Kansy,Thomas ;
Child,Alex
This report describes accuracy
enhancement of Solargis solar resource data for Malawi based
on the ground measurements collected at three solar
meteorological stations...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 133656Date: December 7, 2018
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
Weekly Global Economic Newsletters are as follows: taking
stock; weekly...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 135081Date: December 7, 2018
Agriculture, and the patterns of land
use change that are associated with it, have a high
environmental footprint and contribute to climate change, as
the sector accounts...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132769Date: December 6, 2018Author:
Toudert, Anass ;
Braimoh,Ademola ;
Bernoux,Martial Michel Yoric ;
St-Louis, Maylina ;
Abdelmagied, Manar ;
Bockel,Louis ;
Ignaciuk, Adriana ;
Zhao,Yuxuan
Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land
Use (AFOLU) sector is unique among economic sectors because
its mitigation potential derives from both an enhancement of
removals...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132767Date: December 6, 2018Author:
Toudert, Anass ;
Braimoh,Ademola ;
Bernoux,Martial Michel Yoric ;
St-Louis, Maylina ;
Abdelmagied, Manar ;
Bockel,Louis ;
Ignaciuk, Adriana ;
Zhao,Yuxuan
Empirical literature on digital
technologies for student learning is generally unable to
identify separately whether learning gains arise from
reciprocity in response...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8665Date: December 6, 2018Author:
Habyarimana,James Paul ;
Sabarwal,Shwetlena
This performance and learning review
(PLR) summarizes progress under the FY14-FY17 World Bank
Group (WBG) country partnership strategy (CPS) for Comoros.
Approved in...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 125363Date: December 3, 2018
This paper examines growth spillovers
between emerging markets (EMs) and advanced economies (AEs).
The empirical results based on a two-block set-up and
covering the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8662Date: December 3, 2018Author:
Arezki,Rabah ;
Liu,Yang
This report is prepared within Phase two
of the project Renewable Energy Resource Mapping for the
Republic of Malawi. This project focuses on solar resource
mapping...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 133657Date: December 3, 2018
Transport PPI investments form an
integral part of total PPI investments. Since 2008,
transport PPI investments have been forming a larger and
larger percentage of PPI...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132739Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Saha,Deblina
To focus on strengthening the
institutional capacity of national systems by linking
financing to defined results, the World Bank’s
Program-for-Results (PforR) requires...
Type: BriefReport#: 133933Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Bteddini,Lida ;
Hasnain,Zahid ;
Kay,Kerenssa Mayo ;
Rogger,Daniel Oliver
In September 2017, Mexico was struck by
two powerful earthquakes: the Tehuantepec event on September
7, a M8.2 instraslab earthquake approximately 87 km south of
Pijiapan,...
With an increasing number of public
bodies became interested in leveraging behavioral insights
for improving policies and services, questions have emerged
around how...
The Government of Nepal (GoN) needs to
foster new drivers of economic growth and competitiveness if
it is to meet its objective of achieving middle-income
status by...
In 2016 the Government of Egypt (GoE)
has embarked on an ambitious and much needed transition
towards a better economic policy. While the macroeconomic
stability and...
Type: Infrastructure Sector Assessment ProgramReport#: 132784Date: December 1, 2018
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