The objective of this good practice note
(GPN) on dam safety is to provide additional guidance to
World Bank staff on the application of relevant requirements
under...
Type: ReportReport#: 158481Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Ueda,Satoru ;
Zhang,Ximing ;
Wishart,Marcus J. ;
Lazaro,Felipe Vicente ;
Canale,Luciano ;
Lyon,Kimberly Nicole
The objective of the report is to
present the state of the underheating in Georgia and to
quantify the economic costs of underheating. It presents
estimates of the economic...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 157733Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Melitauri,Joseph ;
Pargal,Sheoli ;
Kochnakyan,Artur ;
Wilkinson,Paul Daryll ;
Cropper,Maureen L. ;
Moroshkina,Nino V. ;
Tuntivate,Voravate ;
Sivaram,Anusuya ;
Georgieva,Sophia V.
Notwithstanding its significant
downsizing due to the country´s transition from a planned to
a market economy, the public sector in Kyrgyz Republic still
owns one hundred...
Fiscal policy is potentially one of the
most powerful tools governments have for reducing poverty
and inequality, but not all households are affected in the
same way....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157438Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Rodriguez Takeuchi,Laura Kiku ;
Wai-Poi,Matthew Grant
The March 2021 update to the
Multidimensional Poverty Measure (MPM) involves changes to
the data underlying the multidimensional poverty estimates
based on the Global...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157750Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Nguyen,Minh Cong ;
Wu,Haoyu ;
Lakner,Christoph ;
Schoch,Marta
Liberia is the most forested country in
West Africa, with more than two thirds of its land surface
covered by forest. In 2019, 47.5 percent of the Liberian
households...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: AUS0002098Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Hooda,Neeta ;
Costa,Valentina ;
Gourlay,Sydney ;
Kishor,Nalin M. ;
Verheijen,Lesya
The objective of this good practice note
(GPN) on dam safety is to provide additional guidance to
World Bank staff on the application of relevant requirements
under...
Type: ReportReport#: 158481Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Ueda,Satoru ;
Zhang,Ximing ;
Wishart,Marcus J. ;
Lazaro,Felipe Vicente ;
Canale,Luciano ;
Lyon,Kimberly Nicole
The objective of this good practice note
(GPN) on dam safety is to provide additional guidance to
World Bank staff on the application of relevant requirements
under...
Type: ReportReport#: 158481Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Ueda,Satoru ;
Zhang,Ximing ;
Wishart,Marcus J. ;
Lazaro,Felipe Vicente ;
Canale,Luciano ;
Lyon,Kimberly Nicole
Infrastructure comprises a critical
component of community health and economic growth. In recent
natural disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, and
floods, significant...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 165588Date: February 26, 2021
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank Group President David Malpass at Session 2 , of
the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting
on February...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 157707Date: February 26, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
The present study follows a series of
three publications that ensued from a collaboration between
the Government of Chile and the World Bank to support the
development...
Type: ReportReport#: 156977Date: February 25, 2021Author:
Klerkx,Laurens ;
Janssen,Willem
The safe planning, design, and
management of the world’s dams contributes to securing water
for people and production, while safeguarding life,
property, and the environment....
Global water management must transform
to meet the challenges of the present and the future.
Climate change has made the water cycle far less predictable
- and water...
Cities are getting hotter as a result of
growing urbanization and global climate change. The negative
impacts of temperature increases are significant and touch
nearly...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 151018Date: February 19, 2021Author:
Shickman,Kurt
Some 4 billion people still cook with
traditional polluting fuels and technologies. The adverse
development impacts from households continued use of
polluting stove-and-fuel...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156842Date: February 19, 2021Author:
ESMAP
Resource efficiency benchmarking
provides the ability for enterprises to examine and
understand their own resource efficiency performance. The
results can be used to...
The paper examines the impact of oil
shocks on sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) for the G10
countries and major oil-exporting countries. The results
show that oil...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9546Date: February 16, 2021Author:
Alturki,Sultan Abdulaziz M ;
Hibbert,Ann Marie
Alcazar Energy was formed in February
2014 as an independent developer and producer of renewable
energy (solar and onshore wind technologies) across the META
region...
Type: ReportReport#: 156650Date: February 15, 2021
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