This paper studies the cyclical aspects
of fiscal policy in Sub-Saharan Africa countries during
1970–2014. It compares the cyclical properties of real
government consumption...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8108Date: June 22, 2017Author:
Calderon,Cesar ;
Chuhan-Pole,Punam ;
Lopez-Monti,Rafael Matias
The South-West Roads Project (SWRP) is
currently being implemented and is being restructured to
include the financing of two new road sections: Kurty-Togyz
road section...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 116816Date: June 21, 2017
Like many emerging markets, the Arab
Republic of Egypt is keen to promote distributed solar,
defined here as systems below 500 kilowatts, but has
struggled to create...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8103Date: June 19, 2017Author:
Sakr,Dalia Abdelhamid Mahmoud ;
Huenteler,Joern Torsten ;
Matsuo,Tyeler Marissa ;
Khanna,Ashish
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletters are as follows: taking
stock; major...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 117856Date: June 16, 2017
Cities serve a significant role as
engines of sustainable development. They account for nearly
half of the global population and about two-thirds of energy
demand. Rapid...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS22504Date: June 15, 2017Author:
Makumbe,Pedzisayi
The development objective of the Tuz
Gölü Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility Capacity
Expansion Project for Turkey is to increase security of gas
supply and support...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 116341Date: June 13, 2017
Achieving universal access to
electricity is one of the most important energy policy goals
set by governments in the developing world. The recent
empirical literature,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8102Date: June 12, 2017Author:
Samad,Hussain A. ;
Zhang,Fan
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletters are as follows: taking
stock; major...
Albania has experienced a sharp decline
of its population over the last decade, especially driven by
decline in the rural areas. Urban population, on the
contrary, continues...
Belarus’s population was declining for
the past decade but recently stabilized. The national
demographic context has had consequences at the city level.
Between 2001...
This report is prepared within Phase 1
of the project Renewable Energy Resource Mapping for the
Republic of the Maldives. This part of the project focuses
on solar resource...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 116240Date: June 7, 2017
Ethiopia is a low income
country—one of the eleven poorest in the
world—with a GNI per capita of USD 590 (current
USD) in 2015. Its economy grew by 9.6...
Type: CPF Completion and Learning Review ReviewReport#: 116057Date: June 7, 2017
This new sourcebook admirably
illuminates the spectrum of integrated policy interventions
necessary to transform natural resource wealth into
sustainable development,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 115792Date: June 6, 2017Author:
Cameron,Peter Duncanson ;
Stanley,Michael C.
Already before the conflict, much of
Yemen’s population was deprived of basicelectricity
services. Even before the conflict, Yemen was considered the
least electrifiedcountry...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS22319Date: June 2, 2017Author:
Huenteler,Joern Torsten
IEG’s strategic directions
for FY18–20 have been defined to maximize
alignment with the key strategic priorities of the World
Bank Group and the main development...
Type: ReportReport#: 116404Date: June 2, 2017Author:
Independent Evaluation Group
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletters are as follows: taking
stock; major...
The report is structured as follows.
Section two describes the study scenarios, assumptions, and
methodology. Section three reviews the treatment of
India-specific characteristics...
Type: ReportReport#: 151214Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Palchak, David ;
Cochran, Jaquelin ;
Ehlen, Ali ;
McBennett, Brendan ;
Milligan, Michael ;
Chernyakhovskiy, Ilya ;
Deshmukh, Ranjit ;
Abhyankar, Nikit ;
Soonee,Sushil Kumar ;
Sreedharan, Priya
The Decision Maker’s Guides for Solid
Waste Management Technologies were created to help mayors
and decision makers understand the various technologies and
when they...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116639Date: June 1, 2017Author:
000453204:Silpa Kaza:skaza@worldbank.org ;
Kaza,Silpa ;
Bhada-Tata,Perinaz
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