This newsletter includes the following
headings: in focus; lighting Africa news; stories from the
field; associate news; off-grid lighting sector news; and
links and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 115077Date: November 1, 2011
The Executive Directors approved the
Clean Technology Fund loan for the Eskom Renewables Support
Project for the Republic of South Africa in the amount of
US$ 250 million...
Type: Board SummaryReport#: 65192Date: October 27, 2011
Liberia suffered successive armed
conflicts from 1989 to 2003 that devastated its economy,
infrastructure, human capital, and institutions, including
those of the energy...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 63735Date: October 26, 2011
The development objectives of the Energy
Efficiency Project for Serbia are: (a) improving energy
efficiency in heating buildings in order to make heating
more affordable...
The development objectives of the Energy
Efficiency Project for Serbia are: (a) improving energy
efficiency in heating buildings in order to make heating
more affordable...
Forests are home to some of the
world's poorest people. Forests also provide
environmental services important to the agriculture sector
such as hydrological regulation...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 66751Date: October 19, 2011
The development objective of the Kribi
Gas Power Project for Cameroon is to: (i) increase the
capacity of electricity generation from the project, and
(ii) improve access...
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 2.5
percent in September on weaker demand prospects and
appreciation of the dollar up 2.9 percent against a broad
group of U.S. trading...
This result profile talks about power
sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Kakanj Power Plant
Project has the following objectives: to rehabilitate and
strengthen the...
Top news flared in this issue: Qatar:
important progress on flaring reduction; Gabon: Global Gas
Flaring Reduction (GGFR) to review flaring reduction plans;
Azerbaijan...
A pricing reform in Turkey increased the
residential electricity tariff by more than 50 percent in
2008. The reform, aimed at encouraging energy efficiency and
private...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5831Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Zhang,Fan
Renewable energy is a viable,
cost-effective way to provide power to rural and remote
areas, lower electricity generation costs over time, and
reduce costly power outages....
Lao People's Democratic Republic
(PDR) is one of the least developed countries in the East
Asia and the Pacific region. Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility...
This Phase 2 report is a contribution to
the materials on which a working group will draw in order to
elaborate and submit a Concept and Action Plan on corporate
and...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 69257Date: October 1, 2011
This study poses the question of how
Poland, an European Union (EU) member state, an
industrialized Annex 1 country for the purposes of
international climate discussions,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 77161Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Jorgensen, Erika ;
Kasek, Leszek ;
Malarski, Ryszard ;
Korczyc, Ewa ;
Rogers, John Allen ;
Stuggins, Gary
Infrastructure contributed half a
percentage point to the Republic of Congo's annual per
capita GDP growth from 2001 to 2006. If the country's
infrastructure were improved...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5838Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Pushak,Nataliya
Togolese government sought technical
assistance from Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) in 2009 to develop a suitable reform
strategy for Compagnie...
Solar energy has experienced phenomenal
growth in recent years due to both technological
improvements resulting in cost reductions and government
policies supportive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5845Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Kurdgelashvili, Lado ;
Narbel, Patrick A. ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
More than a decade of ambitious sector
reform has led to a period of stability in the Armenian
energy sector. The sector faces challenges more typical of a
developed...
Report#: 70020Date: October 1, 2011Author:
Balabanyan,Ani ;
Hankinson,Denzel J. ;
Kochnakyan,Artur ;
Pierce,Lauren ;
Sargsyan,Gevorg
You have clicked on a link to a page that is not part of the beta version of the new worldbank.org. Before you leave, we’d love to get your feedback on your experience while you were here. Will you take two minutes to complete a brief survey that will help us to improve our website?
Feedback Survey
Thank you for agreeing to provide feedback on the new version of worldbank.org; your response will help us to improve our website.
Thank you for participating in this survey! Your feedback is very helpful to us as we work to improve the site functionality on worldbank.org.
