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#: 129262Date: January 1, 2017
The first SCF pilot takes place in
Senegal and focuses on the national electrification program
under the Senegalese Rural Electrification Agency (ASER).
The findings...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134102Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Spalding-Fecher,Dennis Randall ;
Greiner,Sandra ;
Krämer, Nicole ;
Mongendre, Leo ;
Diagne,Elhadji Mbaye Madien ;
Diop, Abdou
Russia is a country of global importance
and great diversity. The world’s largest transcontinental
country spans eleven time zones and is the ninth most
populous country...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141790Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Sanghi,Apurva ;
Lange,Glenn-Marie ;
Naikal,Esther G. ;
Emelyanova,Olga ;
Nemova,Vladislava I. ;
Rostovtseva,Irina
This comics series is based on the
clean, affordable, solar powered lighting and energy in
Africa. It has two main characters Ace and Malaika. Ace is a
reporter with...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115047Date: January 1, 2017
This comics series is about the clean,
affordable, solar powered lighting and energy in Africa. It
has two main characters Ace and Malaika. Ace is a reporter
with a...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115048Date: January 1, 2017
This paper captures early observations
by the World Bank Forests and Landscapes Climate Finance
Funds in engaging the private sector, particularly
multinational companies...
The relative return to strategies that
augment inputs versus those that reduce inefficiencies
remains a key open question for education policy in
low-income countries....
For countries endowed with mineral
wealth, extractives sector management is a challenging task.
However, one aspect of the sector that is predictable is the
cyclical...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 123403Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Rozhkova,Anastasiya
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#: 129282Date: January 1, 2017
Public-private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) is the only global facility dedicated to
strengthening the policy, legal, and institutional
underpinnings of...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 129666Date: January 1, 2017
Significant additional resources from
the private sector will be needed for infrastructure in
emerging market countries if the Sustainable Development
Goals are to be...
Type: BriefReport#: 112689Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mapila,Kopo Gary ;
Mölders, Florian ;
Lauridsen,Morten Lykke
The evolution of the telecommunications
sector is of keen interest from both a development and a
political economy perspective. Telecommunications is
critical to economic...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112874Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Atiyas,Izak ;
Levy,Brian David ;
Walton, Michael
This report provides a summary of World
Bank Group (WBG) activities in the extractive industries
(EI) sector in Fiscal Year 2016 (FY16). The WBG’s objective
in the extractive...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 112709Date: January 1, 2017
The State of Electricity Access Report,
2017, aims to prompt governments, donors, the private
sector, civil society organizations, and practitioners to
develop interventions...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 114841Date: January 1, 2017
Uganda’s fiscal policy has remained
mainly expenditure driven, with domestic revenue continuing
to lag. This has resulted in a widening financing gap. With
the government...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126871Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Sebudde,Rachel Kaggwa ;
Kajubi,Moses Misach ;
Stucka,Tihomir ;
Mawejje,Joseph ;
Walker,Richard Ancrum
River and basin management covers
various factors, including disaster management, river water
use, and conservation of the river environment. Any of these
factors involves...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115070Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Suwa,Makoto ;
Siercke,Guillermo A. ;
Campbell,Jack
This study explores the technological
options and investment requirements needed to boost
electricity access levels in Afghanistan and presents a
method for performing...
Are politically connected firms more
likely to evade taxes? This paper presents evidence
suggesting firms owned by President Ben Ali and his family
were more prone to...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 140519Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Rijkers,Bob ;
Baghdadi,Leila ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F.
This Indonesia Economic Quarterly (IEQ)
reports on the key developments over the past three months
in Indonesia's economy as on January 2017. The return
of global policy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112176Date: January 1, 2017
This model validation report gives an
overview on the results achieved by comparing the solar
radiation values based on satellite data developed in phase
one with ground...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 112664Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Stökler,Steffen ;
Dr. Schillings,Christoph
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