India's huge expansion in rural
electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for
other countries today. The paper examines the long-term
effects of household...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6527Date: June 1, 2013Author:
van de Walle, Dominique ;
Ravallion, Martin ;
Mendiratta, Vibhuti ;
Koolwal, Gayatri
Indonesia's household cooking fuels
have undergone a dramatic shift in recent years, owing
primarily to the government's highly successful
Kerosene-to- Liquefied Petroleum...
The Russian Federation is the world’s
third largest energy consuming country. Yet its market
forinvestments in improving energy efficiency had been
developing slowly....
This report presents analysis of a
database of global geothermal drilling success. The
database, compiled by IFC, covers geothermal fields that
together supply power...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 78230Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Allen, Mike ;
Avato,Patrick Alexander ;
Gehringer,Magnus ;
GeothermEx ;
Harding-Newman,Tom ;
Levin,Jeremy ;
Loksha,Victor B. ;
Meng,Zhengjia ;
Moin,Sonia ;
Morrow, James ;
Oduolowu,Akin O. ;
Pantelias,Alexios ;
Sanyal,Subir Kumar
Pakistan's energy sector is facing
a serious crisis. Key challenges include large and growing
shortages of energy, high energy costs, and inefficiencies
that prevent...
Type: BriefReport#: 79558Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Aziz,Rashid
Mali, a landlocked West African nation
at the southern edge of the Sahara Desert, has introduced a
program to produce biodiesel using jatropha curcas, a
non-edible shrub...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6500Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Boccanfuso,Dorothee ;
Coulibaly,Massaoly ;
Savard,Luc ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
The past decade has witnessed an
unprecedented rise in world oil prices and oil price
volatility. Since 2002, the spot price for West Texas
Intermediate (WTI) has increased...
Sub-Saharan Africa trails other regions
in providing access to electricity for poor urban and rural
residents. This poor performance can be linked to various
factors,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6511Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Barnes,Douglas French ;
Golumbeanu,Raluca Georgiana
As part of a broader effort to
liberalize and reform its energy sector, the Albanian
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Energy decided to privatize
four hydropower plants...
Since 2000 Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has funded 23 activities in Kenya
worth $5.8 million. Five of these activities were funded
under the...
The main objective of greenhouse gas
(GHG) accounting at the project level is to respond to the
World Bank Group (WBG) corporate commitment to understand
the GHG footprint...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 90367Date: June 1, 2013
Armenia's energy sector has
achieved a level of electricity reliability, service quality
and efficiency of sector operations that stands out among
countries participating...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: ACS4845Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Kochnakyan, Artur ;
Balabanyan, Ani ;
Antmann, Pedro ;
Laderchi, Caterina Ruggeri ;
Olivier, Anne ;
Pierce, Lauren ;
Hankinson, Denzel
With rapid development of wind power in
China, the following three issues have become barriers for
further scale-up: 1) concentration of wind farms in the
Three-North...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6486Date: June 1, 2013Author:
Berrah,Noureddine ;
Song,Yanqin
The global economy appears to be
transitioning toward a more stable period. Global Gross
development Product (GDP), which slowed in mid-2012, is
recovering, with a slow...
In recent years, the Government of Peru
has made remarkable strides in extending electricity service
into rural areas. A 2007 census found that only 30 percent
of rural...
This review examines the implementation
of the FY08 Belarus Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) and
the CAS Progress Report (CASPR) of FY10, and assesses the
CAS Completion...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 78173Date: May 30, 2013
The Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN)
has formulated an ambitious strategy, known as Vision 20:
2020, which aims to make Nigeria the worlds 20th largest
economy by...
Type: PublicationReport#: 78222Date: May 29, 2013Author:
Cervigni,Raffaello ;
Rogers,John Allen
In declaring 2012 the international year
of sustainable energy for all, the United Nations (UN)
general assembly (2011) established at the personal
initiative of the...
In declaring 2012 the international year
of sustainable energy for all, the United Nations (UN)
general assembly (2011) established at the personal
initiative of the...
In declaring 2012 the international year
of sustainable energy for all, the United Nations (UN)
general assembly (2011) established at the personal
initiative of the...
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