Poorly implemented energy subsidies are
economically costly to taxpayers and damage the environment.
This report describes the emerging lessons that could help
policy...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6122Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Vagliasindi,Maria
Argentina is one of the world's
largest biodiesel producers and the largest exporter, using
soybeans as feedstock. Using a computable general
equilibrium model that...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6124Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Chisari, Omar O. ;
Romero, Carlos A. ;
Timilsina, Govinda
This newsletter includes the following
headings: in focus; lighting Africa news; stories from the
field; announcements; associate news; off-grid news; and resources.
In 1991, when Macedonia peacefully
attained independence from Yugoslavia, it was the least
developed of Yugoslav states, producing barely 5 percent of
total federal...
Armenia meets about 75 percent of its
energy needs through imports, with natural gas imports from
Russia accounting for about 80 percent of total energy
imports and...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6150Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Ersado,Lire
This paper presents new global evidence
on the key determinants of public-private partnership
investment in electricity generated by fossil fuels and
renewable energy...
Report#: WPS6118Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Vagliasindi,Maria
One key contentious issue in climate
change negotiations is the huge difference in carbon dioxide
(CO2) emissions per capita between more advanced
industrialized countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6115Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Timilsina, Govinda R.
Recent carbon market prices are
substantially lower than mean or median estimates of the
social cost of carbon in the literature. Intuition would
therefore suggest that...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6117Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Hamilton, Kirk ;
Stover, Jana
The development objective of the Solid
Waste Management Project for West Bank and Gaza is to
improve solid waste disposal services in the middle and
southern Gaza strip....
Following this introductory chapter,
chapter two continues with a general description of the
regulatory, institutional, and policy environment for
Renewable Energy (RE)...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 83926Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Facet, Triodos ;
Stam, Nienke ;
Siteur, Joost ;
Vonk, Joep
This paper presents new global evidence
on the key determinants of public-private partnership
investment in electricity generated by renewable energy
based on a panel...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6120Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Vagliasindi,Maria
The government of Bulgaria requested
support from Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility
(PPIAF) primarily in the design of a suitable enabling
environment...
The Joint Social and Economic Assessment
(JSEA) has been prepared in response to a request from the
Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC)
in Yemen,...
Type: BriefReport#: 72999Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Engelke,Wilfried
The overall impacts on the Brazilian
economy of reducing CO2 emissions from energy use and
industrial processes can be assessed using a recursive
dynamic general equilibrium...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6135Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Chen, Y.-H. Henry ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
One of the topics of interest in
analyzing the World Bank’s experience under its current
procurement policies is the impact of the Bank’s policy on
domestic preference....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157596Date: July 1, 2012Author:
Alexander,Myrna L. ;
Fletcher III,Charles
Fiscal year 2012 (FY12) was a restart
year for Asia Sustainable and Alternative Energy (ASTAE). In
FY2012, ASTAE allocated United States (U.S.) $4,459,000 to
new activities...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 89409Date: June 30, 2012
Since inception Public Private
Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) has provided
upstream technical assistance to a range of countries at
different development stages...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 73868Date: June 30, 2012
This report summarizes the results of a
recent review of the emerging experience with the design and
implementation of policy instruments to promote the
development...
Type: PublicationReport#: 70909Date: June 28, 2012Author:
Azuela, Gabriela Elizondo ;
Barroso, Luiz Augusto
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management
system is one of the key components of a country's
overall environmental and resource efficiency framework.
Inefficient MSW treatment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 72702Date: June 28, 2012Author:
Larionov,Alexander
The Executive Directors approved the
second additional grant in the amount of SDR 130 million
($201.5 million equivalent) and restructurings for the
Southern African...
Type: Board SummaryReport#: 70866Date: June 28, 2012
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