Global growth is expected to be 2.8
percent in 2015, marginally lower than anticipated in
January. Growth is expected to pick up to 3.2 percent in
2016-17, broadly in...
Type: PublicationReport#: 96582Date: January 1, 2015
Uganda has just completed the first
donor-subsidized competitive bidding program for grid
connected solar photovoltaic (PV) generation in Sub-Saharan
Africa. Uganda’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 100982Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Meyer, René ;
Tenenbaum,Bernard W. ;
Hosier,Richard H.
Guatemala lost forty percent of its
forest cover between 1950 and 2001. Concerns regarding the
future of forests and the forestry sector prompted key
government agencies,...
Type: ReportReport#: 141841Date: December 31, 2014
How do you manage an area as vast and
complex as the Great Barrier Reef? Or any other landscape
subject to different human pressures over time? The
application of natural...
Type: ReportReport#: 141844Date: December 31, 2014
This report details the results of the
Central Asia Energy-Water Development Program (CAEWDP) in
2014. CAEWDP is a knowledge and technical assistance
multi-donor trust...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 99943Date: December 31, 2014
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: lower oil
prices will...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 98941Date: December 19, 2014
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region is one of the few energy abundant regions in the
world with extensive oil and natural gas reserves. Countries
have been...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109025Date: December 11, 2014Author:
Bergasse,Emmanuel ;
El Gemayel,Therese ;
El-Guindy,Rana
This report, produced for a World Bank
project on energy efficiency in the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) region, includes detailed case studies of
policy and regulatory...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109024Date: December 9, 2014Author:
Allen, J. Riley ;
Crossley, David
To stabilize warming at less than two
degrees Celsius, as the international community agreed in
2009, the world will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to
net zero...
This story highlights the Improving the
energy efficiency of cities not only helps to save energy
and reduce emissions, but also can help budget-constrained
cities expand...
Pakistan is facing a large deficit in
electricity supply. A report published by the Government
ofPakistan (GoP) in 20131 showed that the electricity
supply-demand gap...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 108480Date: December 5, 2014
Forests mean food and livelihoods for
indigenous and forest-dependent peoples. Involving local
communities in the design, decision making and management of
forest programs...
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at a speech, and
questions and answers session on climate change solution at
the Council on Foreign...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101971Date: December 4, 2014Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
discusses on economic policy that is the key to mobilizing a
coordinated...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101970Date: December 4, 2014Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This story highlights the World Bank’s
Global Geothermal Development Plan has mobilized 235 million
dollars for early-stage investment in geothermal energy
projects...
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