This newsletter includes the following
headings: in focus; lighting Africa news; stories from the
field; off-grid lighting sector news; stories from the
field; associate...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 115076Date: September 1, 2011
Technological innovation drives economic
progress. Information and communication technologies (ICT)
can be leveraged for development, but harnessing this
potential depends...
Type: PublicationReport#: 65375Date: August 11, 2011Author:
Flanagan,Ann Elizabeth ;
Ruiz,L. Keta ;
Wegner,Stephan R.
Poland is not among the largest emitters
of greenhouse gases globally, but its economy is among the
least emissions-efficient in the European Union (EU).
Poland's global...
The objective of the report is to review
the literature on the links between energy access, welfare,
and gender in order to provide evidence on where gender
considerations...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 64410Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Kohlin,Gunnar ;
Pattanayak, Subhrendu K. ;
O'Donnell Sills,Erin ;
Wilfong,Christopher Walter
The relatively slow pace of
Nigeria's development has often been attributed to the
phenomenon of the resource curse whereby the nature of the
state as a "rentier" dilutes...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5779Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Gboyega,Alex Emmanuel ;
Le,Tuan Minh ;
Shukla,Gangadhar Prasad ;
Soreide,Tina
The report seeks to demonstrate the
strengths and weaknesses of the sector, while proposing
solutions, seemingly simple but often complex to execute.
The severe political...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 70478Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Belguedj, Mourad ;
English, Philip
IWT is more energy efficient that modes
like road or rail. The bigger capacity of IWT units means
that the sector is able to ship more tons per kilometer per
unit of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81569Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Gille, Johan
Municipal solid waste management
continues to be a major challenge for local governments in
both urban and rural areas across the world, and one of the
key issues is...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5767Date: August 1, 2011Author:
Wang , Hua ;
He, Jie ;
Kim, Yoonhee ;
Kamata, Takuya
This year's edition introduces a
new green national accounting aggregate, adjusted Net
National Income (aNNI), into the set of environment and
development indicators....
Type: World Development IndicatorsReport#: 63848Date: July 29, 2011
A large section of the Nepalese
population is deprived of electricity coverage despite huge
hydropower potential, particularly in rural areas. About 63
percent of Nepalese...
This press conference transcript
contains remarks delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President
the World Bank Group, in Istanbul, Turkey, on July 21, 2011.
He discusses...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124474Date: July 21, 2011Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
This transcript includes remarks
delivered by Robert B. Zoellick, President the World Bank
Group, and Ali Babacan, Deputy Prime Minister of the
Economy, in Ankara, Turkey...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124473Date: July 20, 2011Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
This Results Profile talks about energy
reforms in Armenia. The development of renewable energy in
Armenia was of triple importance. Firstly, it used local
energy sources,...
This Results Profile talks about
improving agricultural productivity in Azerbaijan.
Azerbaijan's agriculture was mostly based on small
family-owned farms that were created...
Approximately two billion dollars a day
of petroleum are traded worldwide, which makes petroleum the
largest single item in the balance of payments and exchanges
between...
Type: PublicationReport#: 63437Date: July 13, 2011Author:
Arfaa,Noora ;
Tordo,Silvana ;
Tracy,Brandon S.
Non-energy commodity prices fell by 0.4
percent in June, although there were both large declines
(coconut oil and tin) and sharp gains (urea fertilizer and
sugar). Crude...
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
daily brief economics and financial market commentary
newsletter are...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 63611Date: July 12, 2011Author:
Dennis, Allen ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Spivak, Nadia
This issue includes the following
headings: renewable energy: wind and solar; energy
efficiency: green building; and green finance:
infrastructure finance.
Household surveys in Guatemala, India,
Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka were analyzed
using a two-stage Heckman model to examine the factors
influencing the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5731Date: July 1, 2011Author:
Bacon,Robert W. ;
Kojima,Masami ;
Zhou, Xin
This newsletter includes the following
headings: in focus; lighting Africa news; stories from the
field; off-grid lighting sector news; stories from the
field; associate...
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