This report lays out the challenges and
proposes strategies for Sustainable Urban Energy and
Emissions Planning (SUEEP) and development. Fast-growing
cities in the East...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74788Date: December 1, 2012
Reliable power supply is critical for
Tajikistan's economy and poverty reduction goals.
Without reliable, affordable electricity throughout the
year, Tajikistan's businesses...
Type: Energy-Environment ReviewReport#: 75198Date: November 27, 2012Author:
Besant-Jones,John E. ;
Fields,Daryl ;
Kochnakyan,Artur ;
Stuggins,Gary
The World Bank Group has contracted a
Consortium of the Norwegian, Ukrainian and Tajik companies,
led by Norsk Energi, to perform a plant-wide assessment of
energy efficiency...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74901Date: November 26, 2012Author:
Solheim, Asbjorn ;
Ragazzon, Raffaele ;
Pedan, Dmitriy ;
Chernov, Evgeniy ;
Kulbachnuy, Pavel ;
Sveinsen, Anders ;
Faschevsky, Sergei ;
Usmanov, Timur
In 2010, Uttarakhand entered the second
decade of its existence as a separate State. During the
first decade, average individual incomes rose by eight ranks
in relation...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: 62493Date: November 16, 2012
Bangladesh Climate Change Resilience
Fund (BCCRF) is a multi-donor trust fund for climate change.
The featured article in this issue of the newsletter is
entitled Affordable...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 84239Date: November 8, 2012
On November 6th and 7th, the World Bank
hosted the second riparian information sharing and
consultation meetings on the assessment studies of the Rogun
Hydropower Project...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 83360Date: November 7, 2012
Haiti has made progress in stabilizing
and strengthening its institutions. This momentum can drive
further gains. The government must deepen and accelerate the
public...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101846Date: November 6, 2012Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This paper addresses that they were very
saddened by the impact of Hurricane Sandy. President is
working with the National Emergency Operations Center here,
and we...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101845Date: November 6, 2012Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
The empirical evidence of the economic
benefits of different utilities such as electricity,
telecommunications and water is mixed and, in the case of
micro and small...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 77935Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Grimm, Michael ;
Hartwig, Renate ;
Lay, Jann
This paper outlines the contribution of
mobile sources to the urban air pollution problem in
Pakistan, particularly in Karachi, and examines a series of
options that...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74769Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Sanchez-Triana, Ernesto ;
Afzal, Javaid ;
Faiz, Asif ;
Ali, Mir Hussain ;
Shuja, Asif
This report aims to provide options for
immediate fiscal adjustment to the government of Jordan and
to set the foundations for longer term consolidation. To
that effect,...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 71979Date: November 1, 2012
This is the final synthesis report of
the Low Carbon Growth Country Studies Program that was led
from 2007 to 2010. Developing countries are faced with the
dual challenge...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 73508Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Knight, Oliver [editor]
This paper examines the cost of
producing emission reduction credits under the Clean
Development Mechanism. Using project-specific data, cost
functions are estimated...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6262Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Rahman, Shaikh M. ;
Larson, Donald F. ;
Dinar, Ariel
This paper provides project workflow
definitions for the South-East Copper Segment Resource
Corridor Project in Afghanistan. Over the next 8 to 10
years, the World Bank...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 79696Date: November 1, 2012
A renewed focus on low-income countries
and fragile states has reinforced Public-Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) interest in
supporting the public-private...
This Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility (PPIAF) assistance to consider options to
develop a new port in Maldives with private sector
participation. The...
The Rio de Janeiro Low Carbon City
Development Program is an ISO-certified framework and set of
comprehensive requirements to help the city to plan,
implement, monitor,...
This Results Profile focuses on how
citizen monitors prevent corruption and ensure procurement
accountability in energy sector in Nigeria. The World Bank
has been working...
This paper studies interactions between
a "policy bloc's" emissions quota market and
an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased
from a non-policy "fringe"...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6281Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Rosendahl, Knut Einar ;
Strand, Jon
Results-Based Financing (RBF) is a
concept comprising a range of public policy instruments,
whereby incentives, rewards, or subsidies are linked to the
verified delivery...
Type: BriefReport#: 74156Date: November 1, 2012Author:
Knight,Oliver ;
Zhang,Yabei
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