This story highlights the first of nine
automated solar measuring stations in Pakistan was
inaugurated at the Quaid-e-Azam Solar Park in Bahawalpur in
October 2014....
In a creative bid to reduce energy
poverty, Rwanda’s national utility launched a campaign to
distribute energy-saving Compact Fluorescent Light (CFLs)
bulbs, effectively...
At the end of 2011, the Indian power
sector found itself in financial crisis, just a decade after
the 2001 bailout of state electricity boards (SEBs) by the
central...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92490Date: November 5, 2014Author:
Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Khurana,Mani
The Republic of Armenia is facing a
number of emerging challenges in the water sector. Though
overall water resource availability in the country is good,
the country's...
Type: PublicationReport#: 91641Date: November 4, 2014Author:
Yu,Winston ;
Cestti,Rita E. ;
Lee, Ju Young
This review examines the implementation
of the FY2010-14 regional partnership strategy (RPS) of
FY2010 and the RPS progress report (RPSPR) of FY2012, and
assesses the...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 92386Date: November 3, 2014
The IPCC's Fifth Assessment
Synthesis Report warns of the need to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions by 40 to 70 percent by 2050, on pace for carbon
neutrality by the end...
This paper evaluates a large-scale
appliance replacement program in Mexico that from 2009 to
2012 helped 1.9 million households replace their old
refrigerators and air...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 92936Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Davis,Lucas William ;
Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan ;
Gertler,Paul J.
In many developing countries,
consumption of animal source foods among the poor is still
at a level where increasing its share in total caloric
intake may have many...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7111Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Azzarri,Carlo ;
Cross, Elizabeth ;
Haile, Beliyou ;
Zezza,Alberto
This paper investigates the
effectiveness of protected areas in slowing tropical forest
clearing in 64 countries in Asia/Pacific, Africa, and Latin
America for the period...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7091Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Blankespoor,Brian ;
Dasgupta,Susmita ;
Wheeler, David
Ghana's economic growth picked up
in the early 2000s and has been exceptionally strong over
the past few years, with price booms of its main commodity
exports, gold...
Report#: WPS7115Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Aykut,Dilek ;
Herrera Aguilera,Santiago
Evidence from the most recent World
Health Organization (WHO) survey on the global burden of
disease shows that nearly 600,000 Africans die annually and
millions more...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 98664Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Kammila,Srilata ;
Kappen,Jan Friedrich ;
Rysankova,Dana ;
Hyseni,Besnik ;
Putti,Venkata Ramana
This report is prepared within the World
Bank’s energy sector management assistance program (ESMAP)
project: renewable energy mapping: solar Zambia. Phase two
of the...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 111459Date: November 1, 2014
The World Bank is supporting Tuvalu
Electricity Corporation (TEC) to deliver parts of a Master
Plan for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (MPREEE)
through the Tuvalu...
This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period of November 2014
through January 2015, specifying the Boards'
engagements, such as meetings...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 92228Date: November 1, 2014
Lighting Africa has undertaken a small
pilot project in the Nigerian Healthcare Sector where
thirty-six Primary Healthcare Centers (PHCs) across the
three participating...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115045Date: November 1, 2014Author:
Gyoh,Louis Ember
The world's urban population is
expected to increase by about 2.7 billion by 2050. Virtually
all of the increased population will be in developing
countries, leading...
Natural resources and ecosystems that
are critical for the livelihoods and wellbeing of the
world’s poorest are threatened by degradation and over-use.
But forward thinking...
India has led the developing world in
addressing rural energy problems. By late 2012, the national
electricity grid had reached 92 percent of Indias rural
villages,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 92223Date: October 29, 2014Author:
Banerjee,Sudeshna Ghosh ;
Barnes,Douglas French ;
Mayer,Kristin ;
Samad,Hussain A. ;
Singh,Bipulendu Narayan
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