The Palestinian Territories face
significant energy security challenges, already severe in
Gaza, but also emerging in the West Bank. In Gaza, the
available power supply...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119769Date: June 30, 2017Author:
Badiei,Sara ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Ewuah Ogua, Samuel Kwesi ;
Coma Cunill,Roger
This executive overview of the
Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) highlights
selected information and may not contain all of the
information that is important...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 132682Date: June 30, 2017
The Palestinian Territories face
significant energy security challenges, already severe in
Gaza, but also emerging in the West Bank. In Gaza, the
available power supply...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119769Date: June 30, 2017Author:
Badiei,Sara ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Ewuah Ogua, Samuel Kwesi ;
Coma Cunill,Roger
This newsletter includes the following
headings: (i) taking stock; (ii) major data releases; (iii)
activity and inflation; (iv) trade and finance; (v)
financial markets;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 117849Date: June 30, 2017
The Sustainability Review 2017 provides
insights into World Bank activities undertaken between July
1, 2016, and June 30, 2017, to manage the environmental,
social,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 120273Date: June 30, 2017
Ratings for the Provincial Energy
Efficiency Scale-up Project for China were as follows:
outcomes were satisfactory, risk to global environment
outcome was negligible...
The quest for an alternative development
model that underlies Moldova’s National Development Strategy
(NDS), Moldova 2020, is a recognition that the two main
drivers...
Uses of main primary energy resources,
such as coal, oil, and solid biomass, are directly linked
with adverse impacts on human health. Air pollution emitted
from various...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8129Date: June 29, 2017Author:
Timilsina,Govinda R.
Ratings for the Integrated Forestry
Development Project for China were as follows: outcomes were
satisfactory, the risk to development outcome was low and
negligible,...
Power shortages present a significant
challenge to manufacturers, who rely on power as a key input
to production. In Pakistan, power shortages are commonplace,
but empirical...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8130Date: June 29, 2017Author:
Grainger,Corbett Alden ;
Zhang,Fan
In many parts of the developing world,
access to electricity is uneven and inconsistent,
characterized by frequent and long hours of power outages.
Many countries now...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8131Date: June 29, 2017Author:
Min,Brian ;
O'Keeffe,Zachary ;
Zhang,Fan
This paper proposes a new interpretation
of the farm size-productivity relationship. Using two rounds
of the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey, and drawing on
earlier...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8127Date: June 28, 2017Author:
Savastano,Sara ;
Scandizzo,Pasquale L.
The CEA assesses the country’s key
environmental challenges in this transformation process and
the capacity to manage them. It takes a holistic perspective
on environmental...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: ACS22684Date: June 28, 2017
The extractive industries transparency
initiative community of practice (EITI CoP) was created two
years ago, and the departure of the past Community Manager
warrants...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS12529Date: June 28, 2017
In a first such request of its kind from
an Indian state, Government of Odisha (GoO) requested World
Bank’s Non-Lending Technical Assistance (NLTA) for
implementation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS15742Date: June 27, 2017Author:
Iyadomi,Keisuke
As the World Bank and partners aim to
support governments in the Middle East and North Africa
address the challenges that confront the water and
sanitation sector, the...
Report#: 116883Date: June 27, 2017Author:
Mumssen,Yogita ;
Triche,Thelma A.
Central America is particularly prone to
tropical storms and hurricanes. The prevailing conditions of
poverty and socioeconomic inequality in most countries of
the region...
Report#: WPS8124Date: June 27, 2017Author:
Ishizawa Escudero,Oscar Anil ;
Miranda Montero,Juan Jose ;
Zhang,Hongrui
Results and Performance of the World
Bank Group (RAP) is the annual review of what IEG
evaluations reveal about the effectiveness of the World Bank
Group (WBG), which...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 117720Date: June 23, 2017
The World Bank in collaboration with the
Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) - Government of
Pakistan is implementing Renewable Energy Mapping Project.
In total...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 117288Date: June 23, 2017
This paper has the goal of presenting
the first comprehensive update of poverty, inequality and
shared prosperity trends – and key drivers of
these trends –...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 120346Date: June 22, 2017Author:
Cojocaru,Alexandru ;
Matytsin,Mikhail
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