Xiamen has sustained one of the fastest
economic growths in China. After a decline in
commercialactivity in the mid-20th century, it was selected
in 1980 as one of the...
The Fourth Overall Performance Study
(OPS4) of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) provides an
assessment of the extent to which the GEF is achieving its
objectives...
Private activity in energy showed mixed
results in 2008, according to just-released data from the
Private Participation in Infrastructure Project database.
Although...
Type: BriefReport#: 53062Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Izaguirre, Ada Karina; Perard, Edouard
Tanzania Electric Supply Company Limited
(TANESCO) plans to establish a 400 kV transmission line from
Iringa via Dodoma and Singida to Shinyanga with a total
length...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 54877Date: November 1, 2009
Privatizing electricity utilities while
policy and regulatory reforms are still ongoing may not
always be advisable. However, International Finance
Corporations' (IFC's)...
Type: BriefReport#: 52659Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Progri, Ariana;
Many countries are increasingly
vulnerable to destructive weather events, floods, droughts,
windstorms, or other parameters. The vulnerability is driven
in part by recent...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 52122Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Fay, Marianne
Electric Cooperatives (ECs) in the
Philippines are generally undercapitalized, and their
operational performance is poor. As a result, the supply of
electricity in rural...
Type: BriefReport#: 52083Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Cariaga, Art ;
Sevilla, Jed A. ;
Fernando-Pacua, Marianna ;
Beloe, William Trant
Urban heating demand in Liaoning has
grown rapidly, due to rising incomes, housing sector growth,
and privatization of housing. During the past decade, demand
increased...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 61152Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Wu, Xun ;
Draugelis, Gailius
Solid waste management is an important
problem and priority in urban areas in many countries. This
is the case in Belarus where cities are facing increasing
quantities...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 51729Date: November 1, 2009
Hydropower dams provide society with
substantial benefits, but, if poorly planned, designed or
operated, they can also have serious consequences for the
ecological health...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51004Date: November 1, 2009Author:
Krchnak, Karin; Richter, Brian; Thomas, Gregory;
This strategy for making development
Climate-Resilient in Sub-Saharan Africa is the World
Bank's operational response to climate variability and
change on the continent....
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 46947Date: October 30, 2009
Some of the headings included in this
issues of the Development Economics Prospects Group (DECPG)
weekly global economic newsletter are as follows: capacity
utilization...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 88734Date: October 29, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved one
hundred thirty-six million four hundred thousand US dollars
loan for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167330Date: October 29, 2009
This press release announces on October
26, 2009, that Mexico could reduce its carbon (CO2)
emissions by at least forty-two percent per year by 2030
without sacrificing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 168772Date: October 26, 2009
This press release announces on October
20, 2009, that signaling their commitment to a unique
partnership to combat climate change through forest
management, six developing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165131Date: October 20, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved one billion
five million loan aimed to develop public policies to
support the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167240Date: October 20, 2009
The World Bank is involved with more
than 100 projects (active or under development) with
municipal solid waste management components in developing
countries. A more...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132282Date: October 15, 2009Author:
Peterson,Charles W. ;
Godin,Julie
This press release announces on October
13, 2009, that the government, civil society, and donor
representatives met with sixteen Amerindian communities at
Iwokrama,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165325Date: October 13, 2009
These remarks were delivered by Robert
B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, to the Board of
Governors at the 2009 Annual Meetings in Istanbul, Turkey in
October...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124560Date: October 9, 2009Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
This report provide review of the prices
of the various commodities in the commodity markets such as
non-energy commodity, crude oil, natural gases, agricultural
products,...
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