The Enterprise Surveys (ES) focus on
many aspects of the business environment. These factors can
be accommodating or constraining for firms and play an
important role...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129275Date: December 1, 2017
In FY2017, ESMAP informed 6.1 billion
dollars in World Bank lending and leveraged more than 560
million dollars from other financiers. 23.3 million people
in Africa...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 125907Date: December 1, 2017
Solar photovoltaic (PV) minigrids are a
reality. Several pilot projects have demonstrated over the
last half decade that these solutions can be a reliable and
competitive...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 121829Date: December 1, 2017
This study "Opportunities for
Improving Urban Service Delivery in South Sudan: A Tale of
Two Cities" comprises a 3 part series. Part I—Service
Delivery Status Report—gives...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS23467Date: December 1, 2017Author:
Vemuru,Varalakshmi; Vemuru,Varalakshmi ;
D Aoust,Olivia Severine; D Aoust,Olivia Severine ;
Karim,Zishan Faiza; Karim,Zishan Faiza
Efficiency is one of the four global
goals framing sustainable mobility in the Global Mobility
Report (GMR). The GMR posits that efficiency is crucial to
ensure that...
Type: BriefReport#: 130013Date: December 1, 2017Author:
El-Hefnawy,Moustafa Baher ;
Wyrowski,Lukasz
As one of the four global goals framing
sustainable mobility in the Global Mobility Report (GMR),
green mobility aims to reduce both air and noise pollution
from transport,...
This note explains recent updates on the
Project's environmental offset, the Nakai Nam Theun
Watershed, one of the five key areas of the Nam Theun 2
Social and Environment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123176Date: December 1, 2017
This newsletter includes the following
headings: taking stock; and tabular data on major data
releases; activity and inflation; trade and finance;
financial markets;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 123106Date: December 1, 2017
This report represents a snapshot of the
complex and integrated use, development and management
ofwater resources in the Drina River Basin, required to meet
the water...
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: taking
stock; major...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 122072Date: December 1, 2017
The core purpose of this document is to
assess the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group
country program in Mexico between FY2008 and FY2017. While
Mexico...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 122026Date: November 28, 2017
Zambia’s National REDD Strategy was
prepared as part of an overall vision of reducing rural
poverty and improving livelihoods. The strategy lays out a
goal to contribute...
Type: ReportReport#: 150716Date: November 21, 2017
As part of the World Bank’s effort to
ensure good performances of the active projects in
portfolio, World Bank staffs carry out a review of the whole
portfolio every...
Type: Country Portfolio Performance ReviewReport#: 124601Date: November 20, 2017
This is the first in the series of 10
guidance notes under the Energy Sector Reform Assessment
Framework (ESRAF), an initiative of the Energy Sector
Management Assistance...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 121475Date: November 17, 2017Author:
Kojima,Masami
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: taking
stock; Major...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 122071Date: November 17, 2017
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...
This report provides an overview of the
progress made in 2017 in implementing the Africa Climate
Business Plan (ACBP), a blueprint for climate action in
Sub-Saharan...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 121032Date: November 8, 2017Author:
Cervigni,Raffaello ;
Wang,Tao - QSA
The electricity sector in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) is in the grip of an apparent
paradox. Although the region continues to hold the world’s
largest oil...
Type: PublicationReport#: 121006Date: November 7, 2017Author:
Camos,Daniel ;
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Estache,Antonio ;
Hamid,Mohamad M.
Some 25 years have elapsed since
international financial institutions espoused a package of
power sector reform measures that became known as the
Washington Consensus....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8235Date: November 7, 2017Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Witte,Samantha Helen ;
Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Vega Moreno,Alejandro
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