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...
Vietnam is implementing a long run
reform agenda for the power sector, with the aim of
restructuring the sector to improve internal operations,
efficiency, and the quality...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 64280Date: January 11, 2010Author:
Kozel, Valerie ;
Cuong, Nguyen Viet
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: the
bounce-back in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 88788Date: January 7, 2010
Export restraints by the Russian
Federation on natural gas and timber have been the source of
major controversy between the European Union and the Russian
Federation....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5195Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Tarr, David G.
Output-based aid is being used to help
improve delivery of basic infrastructure and social services
to the poor. Within this context, the Global Partnership on
Output-Based...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 63678Date: January 1, 2010
In today's increasingly integrated
global economy, trade liberalization plays a key role in
extending the dynamics of international markets to
developing countries....
Type: PublicationReport#: 77771Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Cook, Jonathan A. ;
Cylke, Owen ;
Larson,Donald F. ;
Nash,John D. ;
Stedman-Edwards, Pamela
The development challenge posed by
climate change is putting past gains at risk. Specific areas
of Indonesia are highly vulnerable to multiple climate
change hazards....
This is the first annual review of World
Bank Group (WBG) activities in the extractive sector,
replacing the previous report on the implementation of the
management...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 82758Date: January 1, 2010
Unabated, climate change could derail
development, with a one in four chance of a six-degree
Celsius hike in temperature this century. Although
industrialized countries...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 58113Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Chomitz, Kenneth
In a recent report on middle-income
countries, the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) found that
countries and the World Bank Group have been relatively
effective in...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 53855Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Lopez,Ramon E. ;
Thomas,Vinod ;
Wang,Yan
The report is organized as follows. The
next section puts the study into context by briefly
discussing the global EACC study and the EACC methodology,
which was applied...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 76242Date: January 1, 2010
This report concerns the operations and
work of the Carbon Finance unit at the World Bank Insititute
duering fiscal year 2010. 2010 was a tumultuous year for
carbon...
Indonesian forestry faces a major
challenge – meeting the nation’s wood supply needs at the
same time it seeks to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions.
Meeting these...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115160Date: January 1, 2010
This policy note is a summary of the
findings of a joint study of the Energy Research Institute
of the National Development and Reform Commission, and the
World Bank....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 57906Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Peng, Ximing ;
Berrah, Noureddine
This report synthesis the findings for
the waste sector of a broader study, the Brazil low carbon
study, which was undertaken by the World Bank in its
initiative to...
Type: Energy-Environment ReviewReport#: 69862Date: January 1, 2010
The report is organized as follows. The
next section puts the study into context by briefly
discussing the global EACC study and the EACC methodology,
which was applied...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 76242Date: January 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: January 1, 2010
This is a companion to the Global
Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached
historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and
broadest commodity...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 77782Date: January 1, 2010
Accelerating development in Sub-Saharan
Africa will require massive expansion of access to
electricity -- currently reaching only about one-third of
households. This...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5193Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Deichmann,Uwe Klaus ;
Meisner,Craig M. ;
Murray,Siobhan ;
Wheeler, David
Employees of a new, International
Finance Corporation (IFC)-financed, Greenfield cement plant
in Karnataka, India, won't have long commutes: they
will have the option...
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