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: August 1, 2009
This paper estimates interfuel
substitution elasticities in selected developing and
industrialized economies at the national and sector levels.
In doing so, it employs...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5026Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Serletis,Apostolos ;
Timilsina,Govinda R. ;
Vasetsky, Olexandr
According on climate change and tourism
the industry 'must rapidly respond to climate change,
within the evolving United Nation (UN) framework and
progressively reduce...
The last five to ten years have seen a
strong resurgence of interest in bioenergy along with the
gradual development of more modern and efficient bioenergy
production...
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee
Agency's (MIGA's) contribution to reducing the
adverse impact of climate change focuses on supporting green
infrastructure investments...
Extractive industries (EI) can bring
many positive development impacts to the communities
involved, but also have the potential to create or
exacerbate vulnerabilities...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51115Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Eftimie,Adriana Maria ;
Heller,Katherine C. ;
Strongman,John E.
In the urban planning literature, it is
frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that
ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to
development patterns...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5017Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Anas, Alex ;
Timilsina, Govinda R.
It is an internationally recognized
reality that continued and increased investment in the power
sector by private firms is essential to providing affordable
and reliable...
This report provides innovative
approaches to better understand infrastructure sector
performance by focusing on the links between key indicators
for private and public...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 53380Date: July 29, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Country Director for the Caribbean and the
Haitian Ambassador to the United States have signed five
million grant to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169255Date: July 28, 2009
The FY2006-09 country partnership
strategy (CPS) sought to support the government~^!!^s
program laid out in its National Economic Empowerment and
Development Strategy...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 49574Date: July 17, 2009
This press release announces on July 16,
2009, that the World Bank Board of Directors discussed a new
Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) with Romania, which sets
the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167523Date: July 16, 2009
The 2008 World Bank project performance
data shows improvement in achieving development outcomes,
allaying concerns that the weakened 2007 performance could
signal a...
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#: 61362Date: July 13, 2009Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
DeKleine, Annette ;
Spivak, Nadia Islam
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,...
The Country Partnership Strategy (CPS)
was presented to the Board in May 2006, shortly prior to
Romania's scheduled European Union, or EU accession,
and supported Romania's...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 88904Date: July 7, 2009
This press release announces on July 7,
2009, the statement by World Bank Group President Robert B.
Zoellick that it was with sadness that he learned the day
before...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167532Date: July 7, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the First
Development Policy Operation (DPO-1) for Armenia in the
amount of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167243Date: July 2, 2009
The Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)
for Timor-Leste identifies environmental priorities through
a systematic review of environmental issues in natural
resources...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 66717Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Bojo,Jan P. ;
Ruiz Nunez,Fernanda
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