This story highlights In rural Mali,
women entrepreneurs run small businesses powered by
mini-grids. Electrified villages show more economic
activity, which enables...
Using firm-level data for Jordan, the
paper estimates the extent to which growth spillovers from
foreign direct investment (FDI) to local firms stem from
persistent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7591Date: March 2, 2016Author:
Davies,Ronald B. ;
Lamla,Michael Josef ;
Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias
This report explores the sectors that
will be instrumental for positive CU impact and
competitiveness in the medium term. The initial chapter
analyzes the gaps and opportunities...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 104735Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Choi,Jieun
Development initiatives are seldom
'gender neutral.' It is often argued that because
a project is pro-poor, it benefits the interests of male and
female stakeholders...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129916Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Kodama,Toyoko ;
Ruckstuhl,Sandra Meryl ;
Nguyen,Huong Mai ;
Wilson,Cameron ;
Ignacio,Demilour Reyes ;
Brown,Gillian M. ;
Jacob,Karen Hulog
Infrastructure assets are characterized
by large irreversible investments with a long lifespan and
limited alternative uses. In a typical infrastructure
planning and...
Type: BriefReport#: 133975Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Sundararajan,Satheesh Kumar ;
Suriyagoda,Nuwan
Fuelwood and charcoal continue to be
indispensable in cooking the daily meal for most people in
sub-Saharan Africa; in addition, wood as a fuel represents
an important...
Type: ReportReport#: 139346Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Hoffmann,Harry Konrad ;
Bruntrup,Michael ;
Sander,Klas
This paper examines whether an expansion
in the supply of public preschool crowds out private
enrollment. The paper uses rich data for municipalities in
Brazil from...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7573Date: February 22, 2016Author:
Bastos,Paulo S. R. ;
Straume,Odd Rune
This Disaster Recovery Framework (DRF)
sets out a Vision and Guiding Principles for medium-term
recovery over the next two years (from mid-2016 to
mid-2018). In recognition...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115095Date: February 20, 2016
In Africa, agriculture accounts for
employment and gross domestic product (GDP), but poverty
remains high in rural areas where most of the population
depends on agriculture...
This paper introduces a novel top-down
approach to geospatially identify and distinguish areas of
mixed use from predominantly residential areas within urban
agglomerations....
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 111072Date: February 4, 2016Author:
Aubrecht,Christoph ;
León Torres,José Antonio
The World Bank Group is committed to
eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting shared
prosperity by focusing on the bottom 40 percent. Expanding
access to clean...
The partnership for market readiness
(PMR) technical workshop on post-2020 mitigation scenarios
and carbon pricing modelling, convened on February 1 to 3,
2016 in Brasilia,...
Using household surveys for 24 countries
over a 10-year period, this paper investigates why the
elderly are more averse to open immigration policies than
their younger...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7554Date: February 2, 2016Author:
Schotte,Simone Raphaela ;
Winkler,Hernan Jorge
In the early years, facility for
investment climate advisory services (FIAS) was the only
part of the Bank Group fully dedicated to investment climate
reform. As FIAS-supported...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 103084Date: February 1, 2016Author:
Diamond,John Michael
The Municipal Water Project in Armenia
aimed to support the improvement of the quality and
availability of water supply in selected areas serviced by
the Armenian Water...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 103176Date: February 1, 2016
This newsletter includes the following
headings: a new frontier for climate change; a green
benchmark; International Finance Corporation (IFC) debuts
green on the Johannesburg...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 130860Date: February 1, 2016
In a first step, 3E gathered several
available GIS data (Geographic Information System) of
Pakistan from World Bank’s database. GIS information covers
cities, roads,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 116239Date: February 1, 2016
Climate change poses an enormous
challenge to development. By 2050, the world will have to
feed 9 billion people, extend housing and services to 2
billion new urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 106365Date: January 17, 2016Author:
World Bank ;
IFC ;
MIGA
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