This result profile talks about the
Rural Green lives in Indonesia. Green Program Nasional
Pemberdayaan Masyarakat Mandiri Perdesaan (PNPM-Rural) is
the environmental...
Energy access and climate change
resilience are intrinsically related. Access to electricity
is essential to fulfill basic household needs such as
lighting, cooling,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 65906Date: September 16, 2011
Energy access and climate change
resilience are intrinsically related. Access to electricity
is essential to fulfill basic household needs such as
lighting, cooling,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116485Date: September 16, 2011
The purpose of the current flagship
report is to address energy access and related developmental
issues in East Asia Pacific (EAP) that so far have received
less attention...
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 1.6
percent in August while energy prices dropped 6.3 percent.
Most of the declines were for industrial commodities owing
to concerns...
Section one provides a concise summary
of the results of the study and includes an overview of the
conclusions as well as lessons learned based on the
assessment of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 71728Date: September 6, 2011Author:
Lier,Oeyvind Espeseth ;
Goldberg,Joseph R.
Newly independent South Sudan faces a
challenge in making its own way in infrastructure
development. Despite earning $6 billion in oil revenues
since 2005, South Sudan's...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5814Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
Improvements in infrastructure across
Sudan in recent years have contributed 1.7 percentage points
to the country's per capita growth. Consistent with
trends in other...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5815Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Ranganathan,Rupa
This article investigates the use of
expert-based Marginal Abatement Cost Curves (MACC) to design
abatement strategies. It shows that introducing inertia, in
the form...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5803Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille
This project is an integral part of
Egypt's strategy which aims to expand the uses of
natural gas as a clean source of energy. This project aims
to provide natural gas...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 64623Date: September 1, 2011
Real gross domestic product (GDP) grew
at 6.7 percent in FY11, continuing the upward trend in
growth after declining during FY06-09. This strong
performance can be repeated...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70949Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Basher,Md. Abul ;
Hussain, Zahid ;
Moorty,Lalita M. ;
Rizwan,Nadeem ;
Zaman,Sanjana
Thailand needs to avoid the high-carbon
growth path of many developed countries and, instead, take a
low-carbon growth path. A green low-carbon growth path is in
Thailand's...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66220Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Wang,Xiaodong
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: innovation in
World Bank projects; development dialogue: excerpts from
interview with...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 65583Date: September 1, 2011
Nearly half the world's population
and about 81 percent of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) households
rely on wood-based biomass energy (fuel wood and charcoal)
for cooking....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 74545Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Haider,Syed Waqar ;
Hyseni,Besnik ;
Sander,Klas
Infrastructure made a net contribution
of around 1 percentage point to Angola's improved per
capita growth performance in recent years, despite
unreliable power supplies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5813Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Pushak,Nataliya
Despite general economic decline and
power-supply deficiencies, infrastructure made a modest net
contribution of just less than half a percentage point to
Zimbabwe's...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5816Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Pushak,Nataliya
Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory
Facility (PPIAF) approved a small follow-up grant to update
the final report of the study on the restructuring of
Societe Mauritanienne...
Infrastructure contributed 1.3
percentage points to Burkina Faso's annual per capita
gross domestic product (GDP) growth over the past decade,
much of it due to improvements...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5818Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia,Cecilia M. ;
Dominguez Torres,Carolina
The poor state of Cameroon's
infrastructure is a key bottleneck to the nation's
economic growth. From 2000 to 2005, improvements in
information and communications technology...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5822Date: September 1, 2011Author:
Dominguez Torres,Carolina ;
Foster,Vivien
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