This report describes accuracy
enhancement of Solargis solar resource data for Maldives
based on the ground measurements collected at four solar
meteorological stations...
Type: ReportReport#: 139684Date: September 1, 2018
The World Bank Group’s (WBG) involvement
in the West Bank and Gaza (WB and G) dates back to November
1992 when it was asked by the co-sponsors of the Middle East
Multilateral...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 134796Date: August 31, 2018
This annual report of the Grievance
Redress Service (GRS) provides an overview of cases and
activities during the calendar year 2017, the third year of
operation of...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 129732Date: August 31, 2018
Vietnam has the highest energy intensity
in Asia. Energy efficiency (EE) has a much lower cost than
new generation, is the largest and cheapest solution to
achieve the...
Bulgaria faces the challenge of reducing
its high energy and carbon intensity levels to comply with
European Union (EU) reduction targets. It is the most
energy-intensive...
The aim of the preliminary Chinese
transmission and distribution (T and D) database design is
to improve the routine regulatory supervision system for T
and D companies....
This note assesses the Indonesian
government’s changes to the 2018 budget allocations as
presented in the 2018 outlook, and highlights the key
features of the 2019 budget.
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144184Date: August 16, 2018
State-owned enterprises play an
important role in economic growth and the delivery of
critical public services such as health, education, water,
and energy. The underperformance...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8555Date: August 16, 2018Author:
Heo,Kyoungsun
This issue of Indonesia Daily Economic
Update for August 16, 2018 contains economic highlights,
including: The government, via Pertamina, plans to buy
ready-to-sell...
Too often, academics and policy makers
interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as
an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets
and shades...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8551Date: August 14, 2018Author:
Diaz,Juan Jose ;
Chacaltana,Juan ;
Rigolini,Iamele P. ;
Ruiz,Claudia
The World Bank funded training on
reservoir sedimentation management and introduction to
RESCON 2 software over the period August 6 to 8, 2018 in
Debrezeit, Ethiopia,...
Misreporting is a well-known challenge
for researchers in social sciences and even more so for
policymakers who rely on accurate data to design effective
relief strategies....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8539Date: August 6, 2018Author:
Kaplan,Lennart Christian ;
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Walsh,James Sonam
The Afghanistan Development Update is a
twice-annual publication providing analysis of recent
developments and presenting the World Bank team’s
most-recent macroeconomic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129163Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Haque,Tobias Akhtar ;
Sahibzada,Habiburahman ;
Shome,Saurabh ;
Haven,Bernard James ;
Lee,Taehyun
This report is prepared within Phase 2
of the project Renewable Energy Resource Mapping for the
Republic of Zambia. The project objectives is to deliver
high quality...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 130653Date: August 1, 2018
The purpose of this report is to
identify how public private partnerships (PPPs) could be
used in developing countries to enable and promote smart
grid technology investments....
Although efforts at Soil and Water
Conservation (SWC) are viewed as instrumental in reducing
vulnerability to climate change, their impact has rarely
been quantified....
Type: BriefReport#: 129862Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Ali,Daniel Ayalew ;
Deininger,Klaus W. ;
Monchuk,Daniel C.
A Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
guides the World Bank Group’s engagement in a country and is
updated every four to five years, depending on the country.
In the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129253Date: August 1, 2018
Disputes over land access and control
often escalate into violence and conflict leading to
dispossession and forced displacement within and across
borders. Estimates...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129136Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Mccallin,Barbara Eleonore Mai
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