Forests are vital storehouses of carbon
on our planet. However, when forests are cleared to make way
for agriculture and other activities, they emit large
quantities...
The formal timber sector employs more
than 13.2 million people. It also produces more than 5,000
types of wood-based products, and generates a gross value
added of over...
An estimated 1.3 billion people, about
one-fifth of the global population derive direct and
indirect benefits from forests and trees in the form of
employment, forest...
Forests and their biodiversity sustain
the planet and provide services such as soil retention,
erosion control, water and climate regulation, and
pollination. These...
The purpose of this learning product1 is
to deepen the understanding of factors that drive the
effectiveness of World Bank efforts for improving the
financial sustainability...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 104141Date: March 15, 2016
This paper discusses the scope for
market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas
mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto
Protocol, for implementing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7594Date: March 10, 2016Author:
Strand,Jon
This story highlights a World Bank
report aims to improve the standardization, classification,
and accessibility of Extractive Industries Transparency
Initiative (EITI)...
The policy notes focus on the productive
forest sector, and primarily on wood production. The
artisanal sector was included for analysis as it constitutes
the near-entirety...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS15507Date: March 8, 2016Author:
Lee,Julian
This story highlights In rural Mali,
women entrepreneurs run small businesses powered by
mini-grids. Electrified villages show more economic
activity, which enables...
In an effort to inform the partnership
assembly (PA) about the progress and outcomes of the work
that has been carried out under the partnership for market
readiness...
The learning product will look at World
Bank’s experience in the use of political economy
analysis (PEA) for development policy financing (DPF). The
product is...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 104657Date: March 4, 2016
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period of March 2016 to
May 2016, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 103828Date: March 4, 2016
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: U.S.
nonfarm payrolls...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 109352Date: March 4, 2016Author:
Bui,Anh Mai-000545625
The expansion of digital finance systems
in the developing world has altered this financial context
and enabled new business models that rely on small, regular
payments....
Report#: 106034Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Waldron,Daniel Peter ;
Faz De Los Santos,Pedro Xavier
Guinean’s national power utility,
Electricité de Guinée (EDG), is responsible for
providingpower generation, transmission, and distribution
services across the country....
Since 2006, the IFC China Energy
Efficiency Program (CHUEE) has been partnering with banks to
help increase their loan portfolios for energy efficiency
(EE) and renewable...
Type: BriefReport#: 105115Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Zhang,Dianjun
For more than five years the authors
have explored and evaluated the development of small scale,
modular gas to liquids (GTL) technologies for the extinction
and monetization...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 106644Date: March 1, 2016
This booklet presents the ongoing and
planned World Bank projects in Kenya, by sector, and
identifies the counties where they are being implemented.
Its purpose is to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109454Date: March 1, 2016
The Government of Turkey has set a
target of developing 1,000 MW of geothermal electricity
generation capacity by 2023 and has put in place a
supportive legal framework...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 104839Date: March 1, 2016
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