This bulletin represents a 2017 year-end
review of technology and commercial developments in the
emerging small-scale Gas to Liquids (GTL) industry. There
have been...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123962Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Howells,Huw Martyn ;
Fleisch,Theo
Water, energy, and agriculture have been
conventionally dealt with separately in investment planning.
For each of these sectors, regulatory frameworks,
organizations,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 127749Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Borgomeo,Edoardo ;
Jagerskog,Lars Anders ;
Talbi,Amal ;
Wijnen,Marcus Marinus Petrus ;
Hejazi,Mohamad ;
Miralles-Wilhelm,Fernando
In 2015, the publish what you pay (PWYP)
secretariat submitted a proposal to the World Bank to fund a
project of capacity building for civil society actors in
Papua...
Type: BriefReport#: 126019Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Barry,Mamadou
Papua New Guinea’s Extractive Industries
(PNGEITI) have the potential to transform the lives of
millions of citizens. Despite their enormous contribution to
the national...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126025Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Namorong,Martyn
The World Bank GRI Index 2018 provides
an overview of sustainability considerations within the
World Bank`s lending and analytical services as well as its
corporate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130068Date: January 1, 2018
The timber harvesting in the Miombo
region involves selective harvesting of preferred timber
species (such as Pterocarpus angolensis, Afzelia angolensis,
Dalbergia melanoxylon)...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130480Date: January 1, 2018
Local shares in Nepal is an evolving
concept of equity participation where project affected
communities have a constitutional right to invest in a
hydropower project...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131446Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Rai,Nirjan ;
Shrestha,Padmendra ;
Cardinale,Pablo
The purpose of this note is to evaluate
the outcome of two sets of actions, included in the first of
Indonesia’s economic policy packages issued in September
2015 and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131453Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Cali,Massimiliano ;
Hasmand D,Agnesia Adhissa ;
Bennis,Lamiaa ;
Puzzello,Laura ;
Ash Shidqi,Muhammad Hazmi
Uganda faces a pressing need to improve
and expand access to basic infrastructure services to ensure
the country’s competitiveness. Despite efforts to improve
the quality...
Type: ReportReport#: 150006Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Shukla,Shyamala
The Myanmar hydropower sector, in the
early stages of development, has the opportunity to develop
sustainably by balancing electricity generation with
environmental...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134202Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
This report summarizes findings from a
randomized control trial evaluating the work-progression and
productivity toolkit (WPT). The goal of WPT is to provide
female...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 125850Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Woodruff,Christopher Marshall ;
Uckat,Hannah Irmela ;
Williams,Anaise
New available data suggests that the
business environment in Lao People’s Democratic Republic
(PDR) is not improving, and may be deteriorating. The main
constraints...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123357Date: January 1, 2018
: A set of case studies was prepared as
part of the World Bank’s Water Global Practice initiative
“Wastewater. Shifting paradigms: from waste to resource” to
document...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 124338Date: January 1, 2018
This note describes the methodology
underlying a time cost raster model to measure distance and
access in Afghanistan. It is difficult to capture this
distance per se,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129251Date: January 1, 2018
The development of Maturity Matrices for
Institutional Benchmarking of Dam Safety in Indonesia
provides a method for assessing the effectiveness of the
operation, maintenance,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128499Date: January 1, 2018
The knowledge for change program (KCP)
is a multi-donor trust fund established in 2002 to promote
high quality, innovative research that creates knowledge to
support...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 136354Date: January 1, 2018
The International Development
Association’s (IDA) private sector window was created in
2017 to support private sector development, growth, and job
creation in some of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 146424Date: January 1, 2018
This note describes a financial model of
the power sector in Bangladesh developed by the World Bank
to assess the impact of different policy interventions on
sector...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122379Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Sadeque,Zubair K.M. ;
Bankuti,Miklos
This descriptive study investigates
internal and external labor migration by Nepalese youth.
External labor migration is separated into the flow to
India, which is unregulated,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 124999Date: January 1, 2018Author:
Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves ;
Denisova,Anastasiya
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