Bangladesh is one of the world's
poorest countries. Nearly 80 percent of the nation's
140 million people reside in rural areas; of these, 20
percent live in extreme...
Type: PublicationReport#: 53877Date: March 29, 2010Author:
Asaduzzaman, Mohammad ;
Barnes, Douglas F. ;
Khandker, Shahidur R.
This press release announces that the
world’s cities now have a common method for calculating the
amount of greenhouse gases produced within their boundaries.
UNEP,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169421Date: March 23, 2010
The CASCR reviews the effectiveness of
Bank strategy in Cameroon over the period FY04-08, including
both the FY04-06 CAS and a FY07-08 Interim Strategy Note
(ISN). These...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 89060Date: March 22, 2010
The second Climate Investment Funds
(CIF) partnership forum took place at the headquarters of
the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Manila, Philippines, on
March 18-19,...
Type: Investment Climate Assessment (ICA)Report#: 70075Date: March 19, 2010
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#: 61561Date: March 17, 2010Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
This press release announces on March
16, 2010, that the Indonesia's geothermal power
capacity is set to nearly double following the endorsement
of a new climate investment...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169705Date: March 16, 2010
This Results Profile focuses on meeting
India’s demand for electricity. India faces an acute deficit
of electric power. Almost half of all Indian households do
not have...
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 Result Profile talks about Latin
America and the Caribbean energy. Successful economic and
social development in Latin America and the Caribbean hinges
on the availability...
This Result Profile talks about
Turkey's reforms for a sustainable energy future.
Turkey faced increasing domestic energy demand and rapidly
growing greenhouse gas emissions,...
The World Bank's Oil, Gas, and
Mining Policy Division (COCPO) and the Forum of Federations,
with co-sponsorship from Norwegian Agency for International
Development (NORAD),...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68776Date: March 4, 2010
This press release announces on the
margins of the annual Africa Carbon Forum, a new initiative
to bring environmental and financial benefits to local
communities in...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169347Date: March 3, 2010
In Peru, the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is helping the
government bring electrical power to rural communities
through a program to...
Access to reliable, affordable, and
sustainable energy services is critical to economic growth,
poverty reduction, and the achievement of the Millennium
Development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63216Date: March 1, 2010
More than twenty years ago, Japan had a
unique vision for poverty reduction - providing poor
countries the chance to develop human resource capacities
through world-class...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123680Date: March 1, 2010
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: March 1, 2010
Infrastructure improvements contributed
0.6 percentage points to the annual per capita growth of
Zambia's gross domestic product (GDP) over the past
decade, mostly because...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 62392Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Foster, Vivien ;
Dominguez, Carolina
This report has been prepared based on
information and data supplied by the government of the
Kingdom of Tonga (GoT) and Tonga Power Limited (TPL) during
a visit to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61155Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Hughes, Wendy ;
Asseline, Frederic
Of the many challenges to scaling up the
Cleaner Production (CP) advisory services program, the most
difficult one relates to the market: engaging clients and
building...
Type: BriefReport#: 54763Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Shah, Jigar
The March 24, 2010 ministerial
consultation to discuss regional cooperation and integration
initiatives for the Arab world was a key milestone in the
Arab world initiative,...
Type: BriefReport#: 54015Date: March 1, 2010Author:
Akhtar, Shamshad
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