Reliable and affordable supply of
electricity is a key driver of economic growth. In recent
decades, many developing and emerging economies have
embarked on efforts...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 78977Date: November 1, 2013Author:
Brown, Ashley ;
Crousillat,Enrique O. ;
Dilli,Budak ;
EMI, AF-Mercados ;
Ellery Filho,Eduardo Henrique ;
Loksha,Victor B. ;
Tan,Rauf Abubakar
The FY13 Annual Report for the Angola,
Nigeria, and South Africa Constituency provides an overview
of World Bank operations and activities during FY13 . During
FY13,...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 103600Date: October 31, 2013
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at the Opening Speech at
the Economic Congress in Izmir, Turkey, on October 30, 2013.
Mr. Kim...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101896Date: October 30, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
Doing Business 2014 is the 11th edition
of the Doing Business series. The report assesses
regulations affecting domestic firms in 189 economies and
ranks the economies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 82360Date: October 29, 2013
This report tells about Vatican Press
Conference with World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim. It
have launched a target to end extreme poverty; that is
people living...
Report#: 101894Date: October 28, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
Adopted in 1987, the Montreal Protocol
on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Laye lregally enforces
the phase-out of the production and use of ozone depleting
substances...
This debt sustainability analysis (DSA)
updates the joint bank-fund DSA presented to the Boards of
both institutions in September 2012 and uses a discount rate
of 5...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 82580Date: October 21, 2013
Doing Business 2014 is the 11th edition
of the Doing Business series. The report assesses
regulations affecting domestic firms in 189 economies and
ranks the economies...
Type: PublicationReport#: 82360Date: October 17, 2013
GreenMax Capital Advisors (“GreenMax”)
was retained by the International Finance Corporation
(“IFC”) to conduct a Mid Term Review (“MTR”) of the Geofund
Turkey Program...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116598Date: October 11, 2013Author:
Harding-Newman,Tom
Ukraine's residential gas and
district heating tariffs are among the lowest in Europe,
with several negative consequences, such as more subsidies
going to the rich,...
This assessment presents the analysis of
the financial performance of Barki Tojik (BT), the
vertically integrated national power utility of Tajikistan.
The assessment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 83696Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Kochnakyan, Artur; Balabanyan, Ani; Meng,
Zhengjia; Verink, Bastiaan
The political and social upheavals that
followed the Arab Spring of 2011 continue to dominate
economic activity and near term prospects in the Middle East
and North...
Type: Other Financial Sector StudyReport#: 81757Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Burger,Martijn ;
Cosic,Damir ;
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Ianchovichina,Elena ;
Rouis,Mustapha
This overview of climate change
activities in Turkmenistan is part of a series of country
notes for five Central Asian countries that summarize
climate portfolio in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 85564Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Shah, Jitendra
The Amazon Rainforest is a global public
good. As such, and given that 15 percent of the original
Amazon forest area has already been lost, households
worldwide might...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6637Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Navrud,Stale ;
Strand,Jon
Real GDP growth is projected to
decelerate in 2013 because of a weak external environment
and slowing domestic demand. External imbalances have
reemerged and foreign...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 111915Date: October 1, 2013
Climate change is happening faster and
in a dramatically more visible way in the Earth's
cryosphere than anywhere else on earth. Cryosphere is
defined as elements of...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 82409Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Bodin, Svante ;
Nordberg, Lars ;
Pearson, Pam ;
Pettus, Ashley
This issue includes the following
headings: donors: aid versus trade; investment: seeking
strong partners; power: hydro heats up; water: sanitation
solutions; and first...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 82382Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Alli,Andrew ;
Buckholtz, Alison [editor] ;
Clement, Thomas ;
Covindassamy,M. Ananda ;
Crothers,John D. ;
Delmon,Jeffrey John ;
Dil, Radhika ;
Eberhard,Anton Adriaan ;
Eckrich,Richard L. ;
Gratwick,Katharine ;
Heyde, Maximilian ;
Jamieson,Jane ;
Kaberuka, Donald ;
Ketchum, Ryan T. ;
Kjorstad, John ;
Leber,John ;
Lu,Zhengrong ;
Marconnet, Marie ;
Ngonga, Julius ;
Nyirinkindi,Emmanuel Damian Bahizi ;
O'Farrell,Catherine C. ;
Oliveira, Tanya Scobie [editor] ;
Pia, Frederic ;
Prosper,Jean Philippe ;
Sy,Jemima T. ;
Van Eerd,Robbert
Crude oil prices averaged $107/bbl
during 2013Q3, up 2 percent since 2013Q2 and 4 percent
higher than a year ago. Spillover fears of Syria's
conflict to the Gulf and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 83732Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Baffes,John ;
Cosic,Damir
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