The objective of the EGPS is to improve
the ability and capacity of current and emerging
resource-rich developing nations in using their oil, gas and
mineral resources...
This learning product draws upon
existing IEG evaluations, project documents and analytical
work relating to the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) experience
with supporting...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 109573Date: September 30, 2016Author:
IEGSD
While the Timorese economy has shown
signs of faster growth in recent years, and public spending
has increased substantially, how the poor have fared through
this period...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 108735Date: September 27, 2016
This book was developed to facilitate
implementation of a programmatic approach using selected
scientific methods for screening climate change and disaster
risks, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 108578Date: September 23, 2016Author:
Annandale,George W. ;
Morris,Gregory L. ;
Karki,Pravin
Major resource discoveries have
transformed growth prospects for many low-income countries.
However, the sharp downturn in commodity prices in recent
years is affecting...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7823Date: September 15, 2016Author:
Shaukat Khan,Tehmina ;
Nguyen,Trang Thi Thuy ;
Ohnsorge,Franziska Lieselotte ;
Schodde,Richard
The difficulty of pursuing a
conventional market-oriented development strategy in the
Palestinian territories led in the early part of the 2000s
to a second-best reliance...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: ACS18454Date: September 10, 2016Author:
Niksic,Orhan ;
Nasser Eddin,Nur
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period of September 2016
to November 2016, specifying the Boards' engagements,
such as meetings and...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 108202Date: September 8, 2016
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank at
the Second Investing in Africa Forum in Guangzhou, China. He
discusses for...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129903Date: September 7, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
The first International Centre for
Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) briefing for
embassy representatives was held in Washington, D.C. in
September 2015, updating...
Type: World Bank Annual ReportReport#: 113311Date: September 6, 2016
In emerging markets, climate change
threatens infrastructure that is critical for development.
Roads, airports, water systems, and power plants are
vulnerable to weather...
Type: BriefReport#: 109463Date: September 1, 2016Author:
Miller,Alan ;
Swann,Stacy A.
This report provides a detailed
assessment of the methodological approaches and headline
poverty results from the Timor-Leste survey of living
standards 3 (TLSLS-3)....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126863Date: September 1, 2016
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: India’s solar
power story; on poverty and prosperity,lot done, lot to do;
development...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 108676Date: September 1, 2016
The West Nile region in north-west
Uganda is home to roughly 2 million people, most of whom
have no access to electricity. Increasing the country’s
power generation...
In 2010 the government of Tonga set a
renewable energy target of reducing fossil fuel imports for
power generation by fifty percent by 2020. On September 14,
2016, the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160804Date: September 1, 2016
Over the last decade African advances in
technology, especially in the home-grown mobile banking
sector, have shown how innovation can contribute to economic
development...
Type: BriefReport#: 109456Date: September 1, 2016Author:
Broadman,Harry G.
Private sector financing is essential to
bridging the infrastructure gap between emerging markets and
developed countries. Given the risk profiles of many of
these projects,...
Severe storms, record heat waves,
intense droughts, and floods—the impact of climate change
rises every year and economic and financial losses rise with
it. Insurance...
Type: BriefReport#: 109458Date: September 1, 2016Author:
Miller,Alan ;
Swann,Stacy A.
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