The South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI)
promotes a holistic and inclusive approach to transboundary
water governance. The Indus, Brahmaputra, and Ganges rivers
are fed...
At its most fundamental level, managing
risks is, at its core, about noticing and confronting the
gap between what is and what could be. Humor is also about
noticing,...
Municipal solid waste (MSW) has emerged
as one of the most pressing challenges for urban areas
across the world. This evaluation is the Independent
Evaluation Group’s...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 150507Date: June 26, 2020
From September 2-6, the World Bank and
Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition participated in
Asia-Pacific Climate Week. Organized every year in Africa,
Latin America and...
An essential step to achieve resilience
to climatic shocks and a sustained development of Haiti is
to secure efficient Hydro-meteorological services. In this
perspective,...
Type: Deliverable DocumentReport#: 150242Date: June 26, 2020
Global evidence suggests better
infrastructure governance results in more efficient spending
and better growth outcomes at the national and subnational
levels of government....
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001059Date: June 24, 2020Author:
Zoratto,Laura De Castro ;
Estrada,Eduardo Andres ;
Harris,Clive G.
Cooling cuts across many sectors,
applications, and user groups. Done right, cooling can help
manage energy supply, provide integrated cooling services to
people and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 166123Date: June 23, 2020Author:
Heister,Johannes ;
Peters,Toby
The objective of this report is to
provide a review of and recommendations for improving the
agriculture and food security risk financing framework in
the Southern Africa...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001493Date: June 23, 2020
This policy note is provided as an
output under the World Bank’s Regional Advisory Service for
Southern Africa, ‘Developing a Regional Risk Financing
Framework for Agriculture...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001748Date: June 23, 2020Author:
Lung,Felix Maximilian Otto ;
Stefan,Cristina ;
Arias Carballo,Diego ;
Holm-Nielsen,Niels B. ;
Maher,Barry Patrick
This paper provides background on the
issue of cooling in land transportation applications
including road, rail and refrigerated container shipping.
The paper analyzes...
Type: ReportReport#: 149938Date: June 23, 2020Author:
Stankevich,Natalya ;
Ayres,Michael Leo Gould ;
Diehl,Adam Stone
What is the efficiency cost of
rent-seeking activities in Argentina? This paper
quantitatively shows that rent-seeking activities in the
form of bribes have aggregate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9293Date: June 23, 2020Author:
Zaourak,Gabriel Roberto
More than half the global population, or
over 4 billion people currently live in urban areas. In
developing countries, 90 percent of urban expansion is
through informal...
Type: ReportReport#: 149851Date: June 19, 2020Author:
Rhoads,Elizabeth Lugbill ;
Poine, Thang Sorn ;
Win,Cho Cho ;
Kyed, Helene
In response to the new demands that the
novel coronavirus has placed on water and sanitation
providers (WSPs) in emerging markets, the World Bank Water
Global Practice,...
The objective of this document is to lay
out the options and considerations in the design of
facilities to provide emergency financial support to water
utilities in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 150189Date: June 17, 2020Author:
Riley, Shannon ;
Erhardt,David ;
Kolker,Joel Evan
Doing Business was the first global
indicator created to measure aspects of regulation that
enable or hinder the owners of small and medium-size
businesses in starting,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 149354Date: June 17, 2020
Ghana’s agriculture sector is one of the
keys to its national development agenda and is therefore
expected to lead the growth and structural transformation of
the economy....
IEG will build on the strategic
framework it adopted in FY 20, centering its work program
around 6 work streams on i) Gender, ii) Fragility, Conflict,
and Violence (FCV),...
This report analyses options to make
international public climate finance more transformative.
The report identifies eight sets of levers to drive climate
action: project-based...
Jedad is a business-to-business
networking initiative supported by the World Bank team that
aims to boost access to market and sales opportunities for
micro and small...
Type: ReportReport#: 149389Date: June 9, 2020Author:
Rahman,Aminur ;
De Giorgi,Giacomo ;
Najjar,Saleem Elie ;
Jaghasi, Emad
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