The European Union Emissions Trading
Scheme is the first international cap-and-trade program for
carbon dioxide and the largest carbon pricing regime in the
world. A...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6662Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Chan,Hei Sing ;
Li,Shanjun ;
Zhang,Fan
Although the world witnessed an
unprecedented pace of poverty reduction over the last
decades, reducing the number of people living in extreme
poverty by more than 700...
Type: BriefReport#: 81801Date: October 1, 2013Author:
Beegle,Kathleen G. ;
Olinto,Pedro ;
Sobrado,Carlos E. ;
Uematsu,Hiroki
The Shanxi Gas Utilization Project for
China consists of the construction of two heat and power
cogeneration plants (CHP) in two counties and gas pipelines
in four counties...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 83289Date: October 1, 2013
This evaluation of the World Bank’s
procurement systems and practices by IEG informs the Bank’s
ongoing self-assessment of its procurement system and
provides suggestions...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 83210Date: October 1, 2013Author:
World Bank
The issue of how International
Development Association (IDA) can expand its role in
facilitating the preparation and implementation of regional
transformational projects...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 81803Date: October 1, 2013
The most important driver of this vision
was public recognition that high levels of carbon dependent
economic growth were not sustainable. This vision aimed to
shift...
Type: BriefReport#: 83287Date: September 23, 2013Author:
Choi,Sang Dae
For the World Bank Group, this trip
marked a deepening of our relationship with the government
of China on issues that ranged from urbanization to climate
change to...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101887Date: September 18, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
China is moving from its old model of
export-oriented growth toward a less investment-driven and
more consumer-driven economy. Instead of focusing on the
quantity of...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101884Date: September 15, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
The workshop ‘hydropower development in
the Mekong Region - cycling through from Policy to
implementation’ constituted the latest addition to a series
of workshops aiming...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112807Date: September 13, 2013
Overwhelming evidence indicates that
climate change, caused in large part by human activities, is
already adversely impacting all people, with the very real
prospect...
Type: PublicationReport#: 81112Date: September 12, 2013Author:
Limaye,Dilip R. ;
Mostert,Wolfgang ;
Stern, Richard ;
Wang,Xiaodong ;
Zhang,Yabei
Fast-growing cities in the East Asia and
Pacific (EAP) region will define the region's energy
future and its greenhouse gas (GHG) footprint. Rapid
urbanization and growing...
Type: PublicationReport#: 81111Date: September 11, 2013Author:
Bose,Ranjan K. ;
Krambeck,Holly ;
Lim,Suk Harn Jeanette ;
Ostojic,Dejan R. ;
Zhang,Yabei
In response to the problems of high
coordination costs among the poor, efforts are underway in
many countries to organize the poor through self-help groups
(SHGs) -...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 112411Date: September 7, 2013Author:
Desai,Raj M. ;
Joshi,Shareen
The China Clean Stove Initiative (CSI),
a collaborative effort of the Chinese government and the
World Bank, aims to scale up access to clean cooking and
heating stoves...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81495Date: September 1, 2013
In 2012, 244 new energy projects with
private participation reached financial or contractual
closure in 35 lower- and upper-middle income countries.
Total investment...
Type: BriefReport#: 115124Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Verink,Bastiaan Johan
Household air pollution is the second
leading cause of disease in Madagascar, where more than 99
percent of households rely on solid biomass, such as
charcoal, wood,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6627Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Dasgupta,Susmita ;
Martin,Paul Jonathan ;
Samad,Hussain A.
The East Asia and Pacific (EAP) clean
stove initiative (CSI) forum is part of the World
Bank's EAP CSI regional program, which focuses on
achieving access to modern...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81897Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Toba, Natsuko
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