Despite the many calls to reform the
CDM, its conceptual underpinnings are strong and it will
most likely survive in the post-2012 climate regime. Some
modifications...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS5008Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Figueres Olsen,Karen-Christiana ;
Streck,Charlotte
The Energy Sector Management Assistance
Program (ESMAP) a global knowledge and technical assistance
partnership administered by the World Bank and sponsored by
official...
This press release announces on July 1,
2009, that the World Bank Group (WBG) committed 17.1 billion
in fiscal year 2009 to help countries in Latin America and
the Caribbean...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169149Date: July 1, 2009
Developing countries are increasingly
pursuing and benefitting from regional power system
integration (RPSI) as an important strategy to help provide
reliable, affordable...
This press release announces on July 1,
2009, that the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors the
day before approved an additional grant in the amount of one
hundred...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165662Date: July 1, 2009
Since the launch of economic reforms in
the 1980s, Tanzania's population has benefited from a
gradual increase in income, driven by improvements in
economic performance,...
On March 31, 2005, the Board of the
World Bank approved the Bank's participation in a
US$1.45 billion financing arrangement for the Nam Theun 2
(NT2) hydroelectric project...
Type: BriefReport#: 68667Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Kobayashi,Hayato ;
Loayza, Fernando ;
Morgan,Glenn S.
Over the past two decades, the growing
awareness of the role that emissions play in human health
and environmental degradation had led to a general movement
in many...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 60514Date: July 1, 2009Author:
Hammitt, James ;
Robinson, Lisa
There is now strong consensus that
climate change presents an urgent challenge to all
countries' well-being, and that effective climate
action requires a two-pronged...
In 2009 Annual Review of Development
Effectiveness (ARDE) is being written against the backdrop
of a global financial crisis, declining growth, and massive
fiscal stimulus...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 49274Date: June 30, 2009
This report focuses its monitoring
period on fiscal 2009 (from July 1, 2008, to June 31, 2009).
During fiscal 2009, Asia Sustainable and Alternative Energy
Program (ASTAE)...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 61149Date: June 30, 2009
This press release announces that the
Board of Directors of the World Bank approved a total of
five hundred thirty-five million US dollars to support three
credit facilities...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167067Date: June 30, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank's Board endorsed a new Country Partnership
Strategy (CPS) for Poland on June 30, 2009, which will guide
the Bank's assistance...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167536Date: June 30, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank launched a new urban development program on June
26, 2009, that supports cities in developing countries in
their move...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165467Date: June 26, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Group’s Board of Directors approved five million
US dollars grant to strengthen Haiti’s agriculture
management and support...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167115Date: June 26, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Directors approved a program which
will help reduce greenhouse gases and promote clean energy
use in Benin...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165273Date: June 26, 2009
The Executive Directors of the Bank and
IDA and the Board of Directors of IFC discussed the Country
Partnership Strategy for the Republic of Congo. Staff said
that the...
Type: Board SummaryReport#: 148301Date: June 25, 2009
The present report is the final
deliverable of the consulting study, an energy pricing
strategy for Egypt, undertaken for the Government of Egypt
with World Bank financing....
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 92990Date: June 25, 2009
The purpose of this Volume 1 report is
to explore how development of the gas
and electricity sectors can be better coordinated
within this dynamic environment. In...
The purpose of this Volume 1 report is
to explore how development of the gas
and electricity sectors can be better coordinated
within this dynamic environment. In...
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