Gas Natural Acu (GNA) is close to
achieving gender balance with its direct employees (55
percent male, 45 percent female), and continues to make
efforts to increase...
Type: ReportReport#: 156654Date: February 15, 2021
Two of TAQA Arabia’s nine-person
executive committee are women, including the company’s Chief
Executive Officer (CEO). TAQA solar employees two women
working in operations...
Type: ReportReport#: 156656Date: February 15, 2021
The SHRUG is an open data platform
describing multidimensional socioeconomic development across
600,000 villages and towns in India. This paper presents
three illustrative...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9540Date: February 9, 2021Author:
Asher,Sam ;
Lunt,Tobias ;
Matsuura,Ryu ;
Novosad,Paul Michael
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by David Malpass, President of the World Bank. He
talks about delivery of the vaccines and inequality between
the rich countries...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 156494Date: February 8, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
If African nations want to see their
economies transform, the issue of electricity must be
tackled head-on. Expansion needs investment too, and for
that, utilities must...
Are you facing the challenge of
installing solar at high altitudes with difficult terrain
and climatic conditions? This Live Wire recommends practices
for setting up...
Refugee camps are believed to represent
safe havens for forcibly displaced persons, but studies
looking at refugees' quality of life in camps are few.
This paper explores...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9533Date: February 2, 2021Author:
Obi,Chinedu Temple
This diagnostic note identifies the
behavioral barriers inhibiting uptake and sustained use of
solar home systems (SHS) in Ethiopia. The target beneficiary
is off-grid,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156916Date: February 2, 2021Author:
De Martino,Samantha Ashley
In 2019, the World Bank launched an
initiative to apply principles from behavioral economics to
clean energy access for increased uptake of off-grid
photovoltaic Solar...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156906Date: February 1, 2021Author:
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Kundu,Sayan ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont
The present diagnostic examines the
behavioral barriers to uptake and sustained use of ethanol
cookstoves in Madagascar. The target beneficiaries are
households in rural,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156917Date: February 1, 2021Author:
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont ;
Elven,Sarah Elise
Households in refugee settlements in
Uganda continue to rely on kerosene, dry cell battery
torches, and firewood to meet their lighting and other
energy needs despite...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 156920Date: February 1, 2021Author:
De Martino,Samantha Ashley ;
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel ;
Yagman,Ece ;
Coony,Jonathan D'Entremont
This study defines the current
state-of-play for the local plastic recycling industry -
including demand and supply volumes, market opportunity, and
growth drivers and...
Type: ReportReport#: 157674Date: February 1, 2021Author:
World Bank Group
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