The Energy Sector Management Assistance
Program (ESMAP) is a global knowledge and technical
assistance program administered by the World Bank. It
provides analytical...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 83931Date: September 1, 2013
The nexus of improved energy access,
direct health benefits and reduced indoor air pollution can
be achieved in part through expanding access to clean
cookstoves and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90278Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Ekouevi,Koffi
This paper investigates the adverse
effects of oil price volatility on economic activity and the
extent to which countries can hedge against such effects by
using renewable...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6603Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Rentschler, Jun E.
Like many countries in the Middle East
and North Africa (MENA) region, Kuwait faces considerable
environmental challenges due to air pollution, increasingly
scarce water...
Type: BriefReport#: 83721Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Al-Ahmad, Mohammed ;
Dimashki, Marwan ;
Al-Duaij, Samia ;
Roundell, Tom
More than 600 million people in
Sub-Saharan Africa are not connected to an electricity grid
and must rely on expensive and hazardous fossil fuel-based
sources of energy...
Report#: 106029Date: September 1, 2013Author:
ESMAP
Belize’s natural resource base holds the
key to its developmental prospects in terms of sustainable
growth and poverty reduction among the most vulnerable
populations....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122046Date: September 1, 2013
Forty percent of Indonesia's more
than 60 million households continue to rely heavily on
traditional biomass fuels for cooking. Household air
pollution from solid fuel...
Type: BriefReport#: 81226Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Zhang, Yabei ;
Tuntivate, Voravate ;
Aristanti, Christina ;
Wu, Yun
Forests cover about a third of the
earth’s land area and are essential to the health of our
environment. For example, trees and forests absorb and store
much of the...
This review examines the implementation
of the FY08-FY12 Ghana Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) of
FY07 and CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY10, and assesses
the CAS...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 81029Date: August 29, 2013
Poor governance, corruption and
illegality in the forest sector put at risk forest-dependent
populations who rely on timber and non-timber forest
products for their...
The World Bank and the Program on
Forests, housed at the Bank, help governments steer economic
policy in a ‘forest-friendly’ way. Improving the governance
of the forest...
This review examines the implementation
of the FY09-FY13 Moldova Country Partnership Strategy (CPS)
of FY 09 and the CPS Progress Report (CPSPR) of FY11, and
assesses...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 80656Date: August 21, 2013
This brief summarizes the two-name land
use certificates and gender inequality: an empirical
investigation for Vietnam for the period 2003. The new 2003
land law marks...
Type: BriefReport#: 81514Date: August 14, 2013Author:
Trung, Le Dang
This brief summarizes the welfare
impacts of rural electrification: evidence from Vietnam for
the period 2000-2004. Access to electricity is a key to any
development...
Type: BriefReport#: 81520Date: August 14, 2013Author:
Khandker, Shahidur ;
Barnes, Douglas ;
Samad, Hussain ;
Minh, Nguyen Huu
The project is located in the Cusco
Region in Peru, specifically in the provinces of Calca,
Urubamba, and Cusco. The Project will be implemented by the
Regional Government...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 80411Date: August 7, 2013
Has twenty years of separation between
the Republics of Moldova and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria,
PMR) generated a division in attitudes and beliefs in the
two populations?...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 82811Date: August 6, 2013Author:
Chamberlain-Creanga,Rebecca ;
O'Loughlin, John ;
Toal,Gerard
The purpose of this paper is twofold.
First, the authors wish to demonstrate empirically that
accounting for spatial effects in analyses of economic
growth and productivity...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 82805Date: August 2, 2013Author:
Day,Jennifer Eve ;
Lewis,Blane David
In November 2004, IFC advised the
government of Mozambique on selecting a developer for the
Moatize coal deposit in the Zambezi Valley. The project was
intended to serve...
This study estimates and compares the
effects of small and large irrigation dams on cropland
productivity in South Africa. To this end, a panel data set
of South African...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6567Date: August 1, 2013Author:
Blanc, Elodie ;
Strobl,Eric
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