The objectives of the analysis presented
in this report are to: 1) affirm the existing estimates of
small hydropower technical potential and assess the economic
viability...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 116656Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Terenteva,Olga ;
Rosenthal, Nicole ;
Gassner,Katharina B. ;
Merle-Beral,Elena ;
Hankinson,Denzel J.
This edition of the Ghana Economic
Update is the second edition of the annual series on Ghana’s
economic prospects. Every issue includes both a broad
overview of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116660Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Gulino Passera,Silvia G. ;
Aykut,Dilek ;
Karuretwa,Kaliza ;
Kwakye,Kwabena Gyan
This report develops innovative bond
structures that respond to challenges currently limiting the
financing of forest-based NDC activities, with the intention
to catalyze...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 120451Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Eis, Jason ;
Dixon,Charlie ;
Day,Edward Charles ;
da Motta, Ronaldo Serroa ;
Edwards,Rupert Timothy Guy ;
Wolf,Gregor V. ;
Sander,Klas
This report provides a summary of
international best practice experience in the cement sector
and focuses on specific technical measures that could be
implemented by...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 118739Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Sharabaroff,Alexander ;
Folliet,Michel ;
Rivas Saiz,Milagros ;
Shah,Jigar V.
In the past, a lack of reliable access
to electricity had frequently been cited as the largest
single barrier to investment in Kosovo, limiting Kosovo’s
economic growth...
Efficient energy services are essential
for economic growth, competitiveness, and human development.
Globally, energy markets are undergoing a transformation:
fossil...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117058Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Elizondo Azuela,Gabriela ;
Barbalho,Antonio Alexandre Rodrigues ;
Maurer,Luiz T. A. ;
De Gouvello,Christophe ;
Reinstein,David ;
Moreira,Susana ;
Garcia-Kilroy,Catalina ;
Liu,Jiemei
Efficient energy services are essential
for economic growth, competitiveness, and human development.
Globally, energy markets are undergoing a transformation:
fossil...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 117058Date: June 1, 2017Author:
Elizondo Azuela,Gabriela ;
Barbalho,Antonio Alexandre Rodrigues ;
Maurer,Luiz T. A. ;
De Gouvello,Christophe ;
Reinstein,David ;
Moreira,Susana ;
Garcia-Kilroy,Catalina ;
Liu,Jiemei
Ukraine is a lower middle income country
with a GNI per capita of 2,640 US dollars in 2015. Leading
up to the Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) period, poverty
had...
Type: CPF Completion and Learning Review ReviewReport#: 115764Date: May 31, 2017
This paper examines the causal
relationship between energy efficiency and economic growth
based on panel data for 56 high- and middle-income countries
from 1978 to 2012....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8077Date: May 30, 2017Author:
Rajbhandari,Ashish ;
Zhang,Fan
This Country Partnership Framework (CPF)
sets out the World Bank Group’s (WBG) strategy in Madagascar
for the period of FY17‐FY21. As the country has emerged from
a...
Type: Country Assistance Strategy DocumentReport#: 114744Date: May 30, 2017
The development objective of the
Renewable Energy Fund (REF) Project for Rwanda is to
increase electricity access in Rwanda through off-grid
technologies and facilitate...
This paper examines the effect of energy
costs on industry export competitiveness. Most studies in
the literature use direct energy consumption (energy
consumption at...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8076Date: May 30, 2017Author:
Chan,H. Ron ;
Manderson,Edward John Matlock ;
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...
The Trung Son Hydropower Project (TSHP)
was designed with a strong gender action plan for the
implementation of its large livelihood, minority, and
resettlement program....
Type: BriefReport#: 115334Date: May 26, 2017Author:
Buchhave,Helle
The Trung Son Hydropower Project (TSHP)
was designed with a strong gender action plan for the
implementation of its large livelihood, minority and
resettlement program....
The World Bank mobilized funding to
provide technical support, between June 27 and July 8 2016,
to Guyana’s efforts to join the extractive industries
transparency initiative...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS18011Date: May 25, 2017
The development objective of the Tina
River Hydro Development Project (TRHDP) is to increase the
share of renewable energy through hydropower in Solomon
Islands.The...
The development objective of the Second
Energy Sector Project for Mongolia is to improve reliability
and sustainability of electricity services in Mongolia. The
project...
This report is prepared within the
project Selection : 1231900/ Solar Measurement Campaign in
Vietnam. Under this project a two-year solar measurement
campaign as a...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 115260Date: May 23, 2017
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