This report was prepared in response to
a request by the government of Honduras for assistance in
the preparation of a power sector strategy for the country.
Specifically,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 72296Date: May 1, 2010
This newsletter provides information
about the findings of the Energy Sector Management
Assistance Program (ESMAP) supported power sector
vulnerability assessments undertaken...
The carbon market endured its most
challenging year to date in 2009. The global economic
crisis, which started in late 2008 and intensified early in
2009, negatively...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 55419Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Kossoy, Alexandre ;
Ambrosi, Philippe
This paper uses some simple conceptual
models to draw out various implications of infrastructure
investments with long lifetimes for the ability of societies
to reduce...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5295Date: May 1, 2010Author:
Strand, Jon
With cities accounting for half the
world's population today, and two-thirds of global
energy demand, urbanization is exacting a serious toll on
the environment. As...
Type: PublicationReport#: 54433Date: April 29, 2010Author:
Bose, Ranjan K.
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: credit
quality for...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 88805Date: April 29, 2010
This press release announces on
September 29, 2010, that the World Bank Group’s
Sanctions Board recently debarred four companies and two
individuals for fraudulent...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169523Date: April 19, 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...
This report consists of four separate
technical notes on climate change issues in India. They
were prepared in preparation to the Climate Change
conference in December...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 69996Date: April 6, 2010
This review of the country assistance
strategy completion report (CASCR) covers the International
Development Association (IDA) related aspects. Elections in
2002 changed...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 88743Date: April 6, 2010
The national power transmission utility,
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID), has
tapped International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(IBRD)...
After a period of stagnation, the story
of hydropower infrastructure is changing. Emerging global
dynamics are recasting the role and value of hydropower in
development,...
Globally, the Philippines is a minor
emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs), but cost-effective
mitigation present opportunities that should be captured,
noting that the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 64754Date: April 1, 2010Author:
Esguerra, George ;
Custodio, Samuel ;
Gaviola, Nabor ;
Tiangco, Cindy
Real gross domestic product (GDP) is
projected to grow at 5.5 percent in FY10, from 5.9 percent
in FY09, driven by consumption and public development
expenditure. Private...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 54724Date: April 1, 2010Author:
Hussain, Zahid ;
Moorty,Lalita M.
Successful economic and social
development in Latin America and the Caribbean, as in other
regions, hinges upon the availability of reliable and
affordable energy supplies....
Developing countries are increasingly
pursuing and benefitting from regional power system
integration (RPSI) as an important strategy to help provide
reliable, affordable...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 77307Date: April 1, 2010
In this issue: climate change and the
Middle East; Lebanon: social impact analysis for the
electricity and water sectors; Syria: impact of drought and
climate change...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 57791Date: April 1, 2010Author:
Ba, Demba ;
Badr,Ziad A. ;
Barghuthi, Asaeel ;
Minatelli,Janet Lynn ;
Happi,Jean-Michel ;
Ibrahim,May ;
El Khalil,Zeina ;
Maisterra,Pilar ;
Mocci,Stefano ;
Saleh,Marian Mohamed ;
Stolp,Simon J. ;
Yamouri,Najat ;
Ziade,Mona
This overview highlights the main
findings of a publication of the same name, specifically the
logic of low-carbon growth within the country's
development goals and...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 77182Date: April 1, 2010
Diversification is important to
sustainable economic growth and economic development in an
oil-dependent country like Ecuador because it allows the
country to be less...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 46551Date: March 31, 2010Author:
Gonzalez Amador,Christian Yves
Before the current economic crisis hit
the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region in 2008, energy
security was a major source of concern in Central and
Eastern Europe...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53882Date: March 29, 2010Author:
Besant-Jones, John ;
Busz, Henk ;
Gerner, Franz ;
Hogan, Thomas ;
Lamech, Ranjit ;
Nuorkivi, Arto ;
Petersen, Christian E. ;
Strongman, John ;
Stuggins, Gary ;
Vasquez, Claudia ;
Zanon, Andrea
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