This press release announces that the
Smithsonian Institution and the World Bank Group announced a
new program under the Global Tiger Initiative to help
stabilize and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167530Date: June 19, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank on June 18, 2009, approved two projects totaling
one hundred thirty-five million US dollars to help the
government of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165826Date: June 18, 2009
Bangladesh is among the World
Bank's largest IDA-eligible borrowers, with a country
portfolio of 21 active projects and net commitment of $1.9
billion as of FY08. The...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 99687Date: June 18, 2009
The purpose of this Social Impact
Analysis (SIA) is to probe the social, poverty, and equity
dimensions of electricity and water sector reforms' and
provide meaningful...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 48993Date: June 18, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank on June 18, 2009, approved one hundred eighty
million US dollars to the government of India, designed to
renovate and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165711Date: June 18, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved eighty-nine million two hundred thousand
US dollars to support the government of Nepal implement its
Energy...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167284Date: June 18, 2009
The Government of Vietnam acknowledges
the benefits of Information and Communication Technologies
(ICT) in its various applications, as a means to develop
economic diversification,...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 70401Date: June 16, 2009
Less than 10 percent of Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) rural households have access to electricity and
the overall access rate is below 25 percent. The causes are
multiple...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 79561Date: June 12, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved the
First Programmatic Electricity Sector Development Policy
Loan (PEDPL...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 166946Date: June 11, 2009
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved an additional grant of ten million US
dollars to assist the government of Afghanistan to
effectively and transparently...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 167293Date: June 11, 2009
The experience of SenterNovem and
commercial funding for small scale providers (E Co) in
developing private entrepreneurship for operating renewable
energy projects...
Affordability of electricity is clearly
a key issue in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). High connection
fees, in particular, are a main barrier for the many low
income households....
Productive use is defined (for the
purpose of this session) as any use of electricity that
result in income generation, or improves economic
productivity from a public...
Currently, 500 million people in
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are estimated to live without
electricity. Although grid electricity is gradually being
extended, its reach...
Master plans have been useful in many
countries that have decided to develop programs on rural
electrification. The diversity of energy resources in
Sub-Saharan Africa...
Electrification scale-up in Africa will
require rigorous, yet low-cost and practical monitoring and
evaluation to guide the programs, plan and measure impacts,
and collect...
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,...
Population growth rates in peri-urban
areas in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) increase much faster due
to rural-urban migration placing a strain on utilities to
provide services...
This result reports talks about urban
heating in Armenia. Heating in residential and public
buildings in Armenia was cut in the early 1990s. In the
following years,...
Lack of agreement on the meaning of key
terms regarding regulation often leads to non-productive
discussions. A working definition of regulation is:
'the rules and institutions...
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