Access to appropriate financing is often
cited as one of the biggest challenges to scaling small
businesses. This is a particularly critical problem in
climate-related...
Type: ReportReport#: 119912Date: June 1, 2018Author:
White,Justine
This Cuentas Clara Dashboard newsletter
includes the following headings: transparent government:
leveraging private sector partnerships - welcome by Jorge
Familiar;...
The Chinese government, based on its
commitment to carbon reduction in the Paris Climate
Agreement,laid out its intention to achieve peak CO₂
emissions by 2030, and...
Type: BriefReport#: 130019Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Zhou,Weimin
For green Small and Growing Businesses
(SGBs), access to finance is one of the key constraints in
scaling innovative business models. Investors, even those
with the...
This Global weekly newsletter includes
the following headings: (i) taking stock; (ii) major data
releases; (iii) activity and inflation; (iv) trade and
finance; (v)...
A green lending product was designed to
connect green investors, peer-to-peer lenders,
intermediaries and green small and growing businesses in
order to efficiently...
This renewable energy mapping: small
hydro Tanzania study, is part of a technical assistance
project, ESMAP funded, being implemented by Africa Energy
Practice 1 (AFTG1)...
With a population of 1 million, Odessa
is the fourth most populous city in Ukraine. It is a port
city and major tourist destination. While Odessa retains its
rich heritage...
Type: ReportReport#: 127991Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Nunez,Antonio Benigno
This note provides guidance on the
different economy-wide modeling tools that can be utilized
to quantify the economic effects of energy subsidy reform.
ESRAF defines...
This report summarizes emerging issues
and constraints in the energy sector related to the goal of
securing an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy
supply in...
Type: ReportReport#: 128400Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Vasquez,Claudia ;
Begolli,Rhedon ;
Van Gelder,Linda ;
Shukla,Sameer
In Ghana, blended finance helped improve
affordability for rural Ghanaian household investments in
off-grid renewable energy technologies. Local banks extended
credit...
Type: BriefReport#: 139625Date: June 1, 2018Author:
GPRBA
This review of the World Bank
Group’s (WBG) Completion and Learning Review
(CLR) covers the Second Joint Partnership Strategy (JPS-2),
FY13-FY16, for the Gambia....
Type: CPF Completion and Learning Review ReviewReport#: 126844Date: May 31, 2018
This issue of Indonesia daily economic
update for January 31, 2018 contains economic highlights
including: (i) The government raised IDR 17.55 trillion from
the issuance...
This paper reviews recent literature on
the impacts of various components of power sector reform on
the performance of electric utilities in developing
countries. Recent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8460Date: May 31, 2018Author:
Bacon,Robert W.
The model of power sector reform that
emerged during the 1990s placed considerable emphasis on the
creation of an independent regulatory agency, with a strong
orientation...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8461Date: May 31, 2018Author:
Rodriguez Pardina,Martin Augusto ;
Schiro,Julieta
This performance and learning review
(PLR) summarizes progress in the implementation of the
FY16-FY19 Haiti country partnership framework (CPF),
discussed by the World...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 124812Date: May 31, 2018
This paper develops a broad framework to
conceptualize the multiple ways forests contribute to
poverty reduction and inform interventions in forest
landscapes. The paper...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8462Date: May 31, 2018Author:
Shyamsundar,Priya ;
Ahlroth,Sofia Elisabet ;
Kristjanson,Patricia M. ;
Onder,Stefanie
The World Bank Group’s (WBG) country
partnership strategy (CPS) for the Federal Republic of
Nigeria for the period of fiscal year FY14-FY17 seeks to:
(a) promote diversified...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 126702Date: May 31, 2018
Vietnam has witnessed impressive
economic growth and poverty reduction in the past 25 years.
The development of the energy sector has been a key factor
in the recent...
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