This report, supported by the energy
sector management assistance program (ESMAP), applies the
tool for the rapid assessment of city energy (TRACE) to
examine energy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS5783Date: May 19, 2015Author:
Cardenas Valero,Juan Carlos
This story highlights the moving in the
right direction, but far from reaching universal access to
modern energy, doubling energy efficiency and doubling share
of renewable...
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period of May to July
2015, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 96535Date: May 18, 2015
Through the development of the market
readiness proposals, implementing country participants have
identified the gaps in their technical and institutional
capacities...
A new 2-km-resolution mesoscale wind
atlas has been generated by National Highway
Directorate's (DNV) GL for the entire country of
Tanzania, providing for the first...
In 2011 the Government of El Salvador
implemented a reform to the gas subsidy that increased the
welfare of households in all but the top two deciles of the
income distribution....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7265Date: May 15, 2015Author:
Calvo-Gonzalez,Oscar ;
Cunha,Barbara ;
Trezzi,Riccardo
This brief includes the following
headlines: PROFISH fact Sheets, key PROFISH publications,
global analysis, fisheries, aquaculture, and climate change,
World Bank policy...
What are the socioeconomic impacts of
resource abundance? Are these effects different at the
national and local levels? How could resource booms benefit
(or harm) local...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7263Date: May 12, 2015Author:
Aragona,Fernando M. ;
Chuhan-Pole,Punam ;
Land,Bryan Christopher
Actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions to stabilize warming at two degrees Celsius, as
agreed by the international community in 2009, will fall
short if they...
The World Bank Group has committed to
achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 under the
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. This is a
daunting...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 96812Date: May 12, 2015Author:
Independent Evaluation Group
The World Bank Group has committed to
achieving universal access to electricity by 2030 under the
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) initiative. This is a
daunting...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 96812Date: May 12, 2015Author:
Independent Evaluation Group
Stabilizing climate change entails
reducing net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to zero. This
report outlines three principles to guide countries in their
efforts...
Type: PublicationReport#: 96410Date: May 11, 2015Author:
Fay,Marianne ;
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille ;
Rozenberg,Julie ;
Narloch,Ulf Gerrit ;
Kerr,Thomas Michael
Stabilizing climate change entails
bringing net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) to zero. CO2
stays in the atmosphere for hundreds, if not thousands, of
years. As long...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 96411Date: May 11, 2015
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: the
sell-off in Eurozone...
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
global daily economic news are as follows: high income
economies; and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 96673Date: May 8, 2015Author:
Chen,Derek Hung Chiat
The concentrating solar power CSP
services (CSPS) energy sector management assistance program
(ESMAP) project tier two meteorological station
CSPS.MT.14.217 has been...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 110461Date: May 6, 2015Author:
Kraas, Birk ;
Kamal, Muhammad Umer ;
Affolter, Roman
Consumption of food away from home is
rapidly growing across the developing world. Surprisingly,
the majority of household surveys around the world haven not
kept up...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7257Date: May 5, 2015Author:
Farfan Bertran,Maria Gabriela ;
Genoni,Maria Eugenia ;
Vakis,Renos
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
global daily economic news are as follows: high income
economies; and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 96667Date: May 4, 2015Author:
Chen,Derek Hung Chiat
In 2009, the Government of Cameroon
awarded AES Dibamba power development corporation (DPDC) the
right to develop an 86 megawatt (MW) thermal energy
independent power...
The World Bank Group partnered with the
cities of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte to support their
long-term strategies to build low-carbon cities, conducting
a study...
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