These welcoming remarks were delivered
by Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, at the
Moscow International Conference on New Partnerships in
Global Development...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124465Date: February 17, 2010Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
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 objective of the Eskom Power
Investment Support Project for South Africa is to enable
Eskom to enhance its power supply and energy security in an
efficient and sustainable...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 53139Date: February 8, 2010
At the end of 2009, the electric power
sector in Jordan comprised two operating private power
generation companies, a state-owned generation company, a
state-owned transmission...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81746Date: February 1, 2010
The government of Ceará, one of Brazil’s
fastest growing states in the 1990s, hired IFC as the
principal advisor to implement a modernization program in
the power sector...
This paper assesses whether the level of
taxation of motor fuel is broadly appropriate in a group of
countries (OECD, BRICs and South Africa) accounting for more
than...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5212Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Boccardo,Jessica ;
Ley,Eduardo
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: February 1, 2010
Decentralized energy services remain at
the forefront in the fight against poverty. Small and Medium
Enterprises (SME) are driving this effort to provide an
alternative...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 77432Date: February 1, 2010
There are currently seven active
public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure in the
region. The global financial crisis has had a profound
impact on East Asia...
There are currently nine active
public-private partnerships (PPP) in infrastructure in the
region. In South Asia, where more than one billion people
live on less than...
This is the fifth report to the Board on
progress in implementing the Management Response (MR) to the
reports of the Extractive Industries Review (EIR) and the
World...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 53211Date: February 1, 2010
Large and energy-intensive
infrastructure investments with long life times have
substantial implications for climate policy. This study
focuses on options to scale down...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5208Date: February 1, 2010Author:
Strand, Jon ;
Miller, Sebastian
This has been an active year for the
Global Partnership on Output-Based Aid (GPOBA) The main sign
of this has been a broadening of GPOBA's activities to
include inter...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 65783Date: January 29, 2010
Vietnam's gas sector is at a
critical point. Vietnam's gas industry, from the
producing field to the end-user, is already a vital
component of the nation's energy economy...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 52865Date: January 27, 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#: 61532Date: January 20, 2010Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
This report describes the Ukraine
Investment Plan for the Clean Technology Fund. Ukraine is a
lower middle income country, with GDP per capita of US$1,940
in 2006. After...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 68773Date: January 19, 2010
This press release announces on January
19, 2010 that the World Bank Vice President for the Middle
East and North Africa Region visited Iraq on January 16 to
19, 2010....
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169567Date: January 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#: 61529Date: January 15, 2010Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Islam Spivak, Nadia ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: despite
the recent...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 88789Date: January 14, 2010
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