This note has been prepared by the World
Bank in response to a request by the Government of Bulgaria
in March 2013 to conduct an assessment of the issues and
challenges...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 78113Date: May 27, 2013
This report tells about World Bank Group
President Jim Yong Kim's comments at a joint press
conference with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Rwanda.
For example,...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101876Date: May 24, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
Secretary-General says over and over
again that development is the key to lasting peace. The
founders of the United Nations and the Bretton Woods
institutions always...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101875Date: May 24, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
discusses on the root of the conflict in Democratic Republic
of the Congo...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101874Date: May 23, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report consists of three sections
of policy notes. The first section provides proceedings from
the conference on the Clean Energy Ministerial held in New
Delhi,...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: ACS3964Date: May 14, 2013
It is becoming increasingly apparent
that the post-2004, across-the-board, commodity price
increases, which initially appeared to be a spike similar to
the ones experienced...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6455Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Baffes,John ;
Dennis,Allen Curtis K.
On a bare desert plateau near Ouarzazate
in southern Morocco sits what will soon be one of the
largest concentrated solar power (CSP) installations in the
world. CSP...
This paper analyzes the economic,
distributional, and environmental impact that energy subsidy
reductions and alternative compensating mechanisms might
have in Mexico....
Type: Energy StudyReport#: ACS3784Date: May 1, 2013
This report builds on an earlier review
of the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF) portfolio
with regard to community benefits and their contribution to
broader...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 77741Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Boukerche, Sandrine B ;
Dulal, Hari ;
Brodnig, Gernot ;
Quesne, Brice
Engineering Consultants Group (ECG), a
private consulting firm (Egypt) was commissioned by the
Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) and Upper Egypt
Electricity...
Using an empirical model, this study
provides some insights into the functioning of the
oilseed-biodiesel-diesel market complex in a large country
that determines the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6453Date: May 1, 2013Author:
de Gorter, Harry ;
Drabik, Dusan ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
This document serves as a guide for
those wishing to investigate the impacts of variable
renewable energy (VRE) on the operation of power systems,
particularly in the...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 90279Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Madrigal,Marcelino ;
Townsend,Alan F. ;
Arizu De Jablonski,Beatriz
This paper provides an empirical
analysis of economic and political determinants of gasoline
and diesel prices for about 200 countries over the period
1991-2010. A range...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6470Date: May 1, 2013Author:
van Beers, Cees ;
Strand, Jon
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: World Bank's
new country partnership strategy for India; World Bank note
on extreme...
The Nigeria economic report represents a
new World Bank product intended to be produced on a biannual
basis. Each report will provide an assessment of the current
economic...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 77684Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Litwack, John
In 2011, the median oil imports rose to
5 percent of gross domestic product for net importers. In
the past several years, many governments have not passed
through the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6450Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Kojima,Masami
International negotiations on climate
change have been dogged by mutual recriminations between
rich and poor countries, constricted by the zero-sum
arithmetic of a shrinking...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6440Date: May 1, 2013Author:
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Subramanian,Arvind
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