The report is structured in two parts.
Part one focuses on describing why providing transmission
services for renewable energy represents a new challenge, as
well as...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 69199Date: June 1, 2011Author:
Madrigal, Marcelino ;
Stoft, Steven
This report discusses the review and
implementation plan for building thermal standards in
Lebanon. The assignment consisted of seven tasks: (1) to
review existing thermal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 70305Date: June 1, 2011
The survey on financial literacy among
the citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina was conducted within
a larger project that aims at creating the Action Plan for
Consumer...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 111550Date: June 1, 2011Author:
Bagić, Dragan
This study covers the experience of six
major multilateral development banks (MDBs) with
concessional climate finance and is an input to the design
of the Green Fund....
The objective of the functional review
of the Ministry of Economy, Commerce and Business
Environment (MEC) is to analyze its current structure and
operations, to provide...
Type: Energy-Environment ReviewReport#: 74292Date: May 30, 2011
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: global
retail sales...
Energy efficiency (EE) projects, such as
light bulb and appliance replacement, often generate quick
returns in terms of savings in energy consumption, reduction
in CO2...
The objective of the Energy Efficiency
Project for Poland is to increase public and private sector
investments in energy efficiency in buildings. The project
is only...
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#: 62202Date: May 20, 2011Author:
Dennis, Allen ;
Kim, EJ ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Spivak, Nadia
This report provide review of the prices
of the various commodities in the commodity markets such as
non-energy commodity, crude oil, natural gases, agricultural
products,...
This speech was delivered by Robert B.
Zoellick, President of the World Bank, in Casablanca,
Morocco, on May 5, 2011 at the Morocco industry summit. He
focuses on: the...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124461Date: May 5, 2011Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
Upper Egypt Electricity Production
Company (UEEPC), a company incorporated in Egypt and
affiliated to the Egyptian Electricity Holding Company
(EEHC) to construct and...
Creating climate-resilient and
low-carbon development paths has become a development
imperative. The World Bank continues to face unprecedented
demand from many countries...
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
(UNFCCC) is one of the flexible mechanisms of the Kyoto
Protocol intended...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63616Date: May 1, 2011Author:
Salinas, Zenia ;
Baroudy, Ellysar ;
Guimaraes, Leticia ;
Van der Linden, Marco ;
Chandra Reddy, Rama ;
Serkovic, Mirko
This study was undertaken to identify
and assess the technologies available worldwide for
treatment and disposal of municipal solid waste (MSW), and
to make a general...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 70166Date: May 1, 2011
Climate change and its consequences,
ranging from increased water variability to more extreme
weather events and from sea level rise to ecosystem changes,
introduce...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61810Date: May 1, 2011Author:
Schmeier, Susanne
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: Working PaperReport#: 63098Date: May 1, 2011Author:
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia ;
Dominguez-Torres, Carolina
In this issue: the impact of migration
on rural poverty and inequality in China; how would a global
expansion of biofuel production effect developing countries?
How...
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