Large-scale production of crop based
(first generation) biofuels may not be feasible without
adversely affecting global food supply or encroaching on
other important...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5411Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Cheng,Jay J. ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
This third annual country portfolio
evaluation report provides a synthesis of the main
conclusions and recommendations of the two country portfolio
evaluations (CPEs)...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 60582Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Carugi, Carlo
This report provides a review of the
prices of the various commodities in the commodity markets
such as non-energy commodity, crude oil, natural gases,
agricultural...
Environmental performance rating and
disclosure has emerged as an alternative or complementary
approach to conventional pollution regulation, especially in
developing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5420Date: September 1, 2010Author:
Jin, Yanhong ;
Wang, Hua ;
Wheeler, David
This press release announces on August
31, 2010, that with the global population expected to reach
nine billion by 2050, economic development spurring demand
for more...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169707Date: August 31, 2010
This report provides a review of the
prices of the various commodities in the commodity markets
such as non-energy commodity, crude oil, natural gases,
agricultural...
The Government of Zimbabwe (GOZ) faces
difficult choices in managing the size of its civil service
wage bill. The Government understands the need to watch the
escalating...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 72004Date: August 11, 2010
This Farmland investments and food
security working paper includes the following headings:
introduction: food security and farmland investments; Agro
Ecological Zone...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 64445Date: August 7, 2010Author:
Fischer, Gunther ;
Shah, Mahendra
Carbon accounting and labeling for
products are new instruments of supply chain management that
may affect developing country export opportunities. Most
instruments...
Type: BriefReport#: 56232Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Brenton, Paul ;
Edwards-Jones, Gareth ;
Jensen, Michael F.
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the World Bank in Laos are: overview; the
hydropower facility; the Nakai plateau; the downstream;
protecting the watershed;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 62045Date: August 1, 2010
This study posits that in order to gain
a better understanding of existing and potential users of
electricity in rural areas of Peru, the National Survey on
Energy Consumption...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 57700Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Meier, Peter ;
Tuntivate, Voravate ;
Barnes, Douglas F. ;
Bogash, Susan V. ;
Farchy, Daniel
The challenges and opportunities of
nuclear power in meeting the projected large absolute
increase in energy demand, especially electricity,
throughout the industrialized...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 76807Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Kessides,Ioannis N.
Across West Africa, infrastructure
improvements most notably in the information and
communications technology (ICT) sector have contributed some
0.9 percentage points...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62754Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia M. ;
Benitez, Daniel Alberto
This metrics, analytics and knowledge
newsletter includes some of the following headlines: an
avatar on the virtual world 'real life' has the
same carbon footprint as...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 56311Date: August 1, 2010
The Turkish electricity sector has
experienced important restructuring over the last decade,
and further changes are foreseen in the coming years. The
operational effectiveness...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69475Date: August 1, 2010
This summary is intended as a reflection
of what has been presented, without predetermining the
content of the strategy itself. Throughout the
consultations, it was...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76072Date: August 1, 2010
Recent increases in production of
crop-based (or first-generation) biofuels have engendered
increasing concerns over potential conflicts with food
supplies and land...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5406Date: August 1, 2010Author:
Carriquiry,Miguel Alberto ;
Du, Xiaodong ;
Timilsina,Govinda R.
The purpose of this report is to provide
decision makers in Colombia (and by extension other
countries or regions), who are considering the deployment or
consolidation...
This press release announces on July 27,
2010, that the High Level Donors Meeting for the Kyrgyz
Republic was held in Bishkek, bringing together
representatives of the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169649Date: July 27, 2010
This press release announces that
China’s drive to develop cities that are more energy and
resource efficient was boosted on July 22, 2010 with the
approval of a grant...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169420Date: July 22, 2010
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