Tunisia emerges today the only success
story of the Arab Spring revolution that swept the Arab
world five years ago. This poverty assessment seeks to learn
from the...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 104913Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Cuesta Leiva,Jose Antonio ;
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Barry, Abdoul ;
Maratou-Kolias,Laura Maria ;
El-Laga, Abdel Rahman
This Indonesia Economic Quarterly (IEQ)
report discusses about the private investment which is
essential for the economic growth of Indonesia. Indonesia
needs to adjust...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109371Date: March 1, 2016
In the framework of the wind mapping
exercise for Pakistan, a mesoscale wind map has been
calculated by the technical university of Denmark (DTU). The
latest methodology...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 116238Date: March 1, 2016
Based on the World Bank’s own extensive
global experience and drawing upon international expertise
from leading specialists and practitioners, this report
presents a...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 105172Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Sanyal,Subir Kumar ;
Robertson-Tait, Ann ;
Jayawardena,Migara ;
Huttrer, Gerry ;
Berman,Laura Wendell
Fuelwood and charcoal continue to be
indispensable in cooking the daily meal for most people in
sub-Saharan Africa; in addition, wood as a fuel represents
an important...
Type: ReportReport#: 139346Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Hoffmann,Harry Konrad ;
Bruntrup,Michael ;
Sander,Klas
When severe and prolonged drought hit
Australia’s Murray Darling Basin, the country’s agricultural
heartland, policymakers used economic modeling to weigh up
the most...
Type: ReportReport#: 141845Date: February 29, 2016
‘Transformational engagements’ are
identified as those that “improve fundamentally the lives of
the poor and disadvantaged people.” Such engagements may
“produce demonstration...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 104130Date: February 25, 2016
Over the last few decades Vietnam has
made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and positioning
its economy on a sustainable growth path. As a consequence
of robust...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 103719Date: February 21, 2016
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: United
States (U.S.)...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 104325Date: February 19, 2016Author:
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Felsenthal,Mark Edgar
This document reports on the methods
used in Phase 1 of The World Bank wind mapping project for
Ethiopia. The interim mesoscale modelling results were
calculated from...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 111162Date: February 19, 2016Author:
Badger,Jake ;
Hahmann,Andrea N. ;
Volker,Patrick J. H. ;
Hansen, Jens Carsten
This paper examines the short- and
long-run economic impact of Egypt's energy subsidy
reform in July 2014 (without and without compensating
transfers for the bottom...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7571Date: February 19, 2016Author:
Griffin,Peter ;
Laursen,Thomas Blatt ;
Robertson,James Warren
The authors estimate the impact of
international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth
of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144
individuals in six...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 140508Date: February 18, 2016Author:
Wydick,Bruce W. ;
Glewwe,Paul W. ;
Rutledge,Laine
This story highlights the Africa’s rate
of electricity access rose from 32 percent in 2010 to 35
percent in 2012, but while 25 million people a year got
access, electrification...
The CSP Services (CSPS) Energy Sector
Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) Project Tier1
meteorological station CSPS.MT.14.213, operational since
Oct. 17th 2014, was...
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
global daily economic news are as follows: financial
markets; high income...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 104221Date: February 3, 2016Author:
Chen,Derek Hung Chiat
The partnership for market readiness
(PMR) technical workshop on post-2020 mitigation scenarios
and carbon pricing modelling, convened on February 1 to 3,
2016 in Brasilia,...
The concentrating solar power (CSP)
services (CSPS) energy sector management assistance program
(ESMAP) project tier one meteorological station
CSPS.MT.14.218, operational...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 110470Date: February 3, 2016Author:
Kraas, Birk ;
Kamal, Muhammad Umer ;
Affolter, Roman
The concentrating solar power (CSP)
services (CSPS) energy sector management assistance program
(ESMAP) project tier one meteorological station
CSPS.MT.14.214, operational...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 110468Date: February 3, 2016Author:
Kraas, Birk ;
Affolter, Roman ;
Kamal, Muhammad Umer
The concentrating solar power (CSP)
services (CSPS) energy sector management assistance program
(ESMAP) project tier one meteorological station
CSPS.MT.14.214, operational...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 110466Date: February 3, 2016Author:
Kraas, Birk ;
Affolter, Roman ;
Kamal, Muhammad Umer
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