As the poorest country in Europe and
Central Asia, Tajikistan is particularly vulnerable to
shocks to household well-being. From the economic downturn
in the Russian...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130293Date: November 1, 2017
The first section identifies the
overlaps between Kazakhstan's development objectives
and the goals of IFC~^!!^s new strategy of creating markets
for the private sector....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128216Date: November 1, 2017Author:
Fengler,Wolfgang ;
Miller,Christopher David ;
Coutinho,Daniel ;
Gill,Indermit S.
The adoption of the shared prosperity
goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development
Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should
strengthen...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 125573Date: November 1, 2017Author:
Öhler, Hannes ;
Negre Rossignoli,Mario ;
Smets,Lodewijk ;
Massari,Renzo ;
Bogetić, Željko
This report presents annexes to:
supporting introduction; supporting setting core water
management development targets - key objectives; supporting
inventory of changes...
Ghana has been remarkably successful in
extending its national grid into the rural areas. According
to its Ministry of Power, about 83.4 percent of communities
with...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 121824Date: November 1, 2017
In 2015, the world embraced the 17
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, and agreed on
a framework of targets and indicators for tracking progress
across multiple...
Type: BriefReport#: 130012Date: November 1, 2017Author:
Alam,Muneeza Mehmood ;
Powell,Julie
The objective of the Ghana Country
Private Sector Diagnostic (CPSD) is to identify the main
opportunities for the private sector that will have a strong
development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128226Date: November 1, 2017Author:
Palmade,Vincent ;
Maur,Jean-Christophe ;
Dib,Farah ;
Ivanovic,David ;
Cattaneo,Olivier ;
Douamba,Frank Armand D. ;
Floreani,Vincent Arthur ;
Karuretwa,Kaliza ;
Mdluli,Sizwe
The Kyrgyz Republic is located in a
region of high seismic hazard with earthquakes of magnitude
Mw≥5 occurring about once per month, and potentially
devastating earthquakes...
This newsletter about the monthly
economic developments of Philippines include the following :
(i) Amidst a more volatile foreign exchange market, the
Philippine peso...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 121390Date: November 1, 2017
The Hezhou municipality (Hezhou) is in
the northeastern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi)
which is the least developed of the western provinces in
China. The...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 125312Date: November 1, 2017
The overall objective of the Croatia
Clusters and global value chain (GVC) Assessment project is
to support the Croatian Ministry of Economy,
Entrepreneurship, and Crafts...
Type: ReportReport#: 164339Date: October 31, 2017Author:
Yap,Justin ;
Kilroy,Austin ;
Lapres,Blair Edward ;
Muhtaseb,Sherif ;
Duch Navarro,Emiliano ;
Iootty De Paiva Dias,Mariana ;
Nasir,John L. ;
Lopez Cordova,Jose Ernesto ;
Correa,Paulo Guilherme
This paper investigates an alternative
proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work
settings: a direct measure of physical activity using an
accelerometer....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8228Date: October 30, 2017Author:
Akogun,Oladele B ;
Dillon,Andrew S. ;
Friedman,Jed ;
Prasann,Ashesh ;
Serneels,Pieter Maria
Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
system review is the fourth and final part of the
institutional development phase of task C. The ERP system
review intends to perform...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126444Date: October 29, 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 note assesses the Indonesian
government’s changes to the 2017 budget allocations as
presented in the 2018 outlook, and highlights the key
features of the 2018 budget.
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144186Date: October 25, 2017
Shield wire systems running along
existing high-voltage transmission lines can supply
household electricity to communities located within 20 km of
the high-voltage corridor....
Integrated planning analysis can provide
evidence to support decision making and consensus building
about sensitive issues in the energy sector. To support
analysis,...
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