The objective of this Country
Environmental Analysis (CEA) is to highlight the underlying
challenges and opportunities for Indonesia's
environment and management of...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 50762Date: January 1, 2009
In Tanzania, Green Resources, a
multi-dimensional forest products company based in Norway,
is reversing this trend, turning unused grasslands into
forests and building...
Performance of electric utilities is
essential for the reform of the electricity sector in the
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. The World Bank is
leading a number...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 69562Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Tallapragada V.S.N., Prasad ;
Shkaratan, Maria ;
Izaguirre, Ada Karina ;
Helleranta, Jaakko ;
Rahman, Saifur ;
Bergman, Sten
According to the World Bank's
sustainable infrastructure action plan FY2009-2011, the gaps
in infrastructure service delivery are significant:
worldwide 884 million...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 53161Date: January 1, 2009
King County and its largest city,
Seattle, Washington, along with the emergency preparedness
bureau, have been deemed major contributors to the discourse
on climate...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47809Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
The case for scaling up mitigation
efforts is urgent and has been made repeatedly in the last
few years whether denominated in gigatonnes of needed
reductions in greenhouse...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76940Date: January 1, 2009
This is the fourth report to the Board
on progress in implementing the Management Response (MR) to
the reports of the Extractive Industries Review (EIR) and
the World...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 47598Date: January 1, 2009
Reliable and affordable energy services
for agriculture, industry, commerce and households underpin
growth in productivity and output, and improve the welfare
of the...
The Diamond Area Community Development
Fund (DACDF) was set up by the government of Sierra Leone in
the year 2001. Since that time every year the government
puts some...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52399Date: January 1, 2009
The global financial crisis has
transformed the outlook for infrastructure projects with
private participation in developing countries. In the second
half of 2009 developing...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 51623Date: January 1, 2009
Rockville is the county seat of
Montgomery County, Maryland, United States (U.S.). According
to the U.S. Census Bureau (2006), the city has a total area
of 13.4 square...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47808Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad,Neeraj ;
Ranghieri,Federica ;
Shah,Fatima Zehra ;
Trohanis,Zoe Elena
This document reviews experience with
efforts in developing countries by private as well as
state-owned electricity companies to reduce total losses in
transmission...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 92639Date: January 1, 2009
The world is facing a prolonged period
of planetary surface warming that is unparalleled in human
history. The scientific consensus holds that this is largely
a consequence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 52051Date: January 1, 2009
The Indonesia policy brief presents some
of the important aspects of the energy and climate change
such as: providing reliable, affordable and sustainable
energy while...
Dongtan on Chongming Island will be the
world's first carbon-neutral city built intentionally.
Dongtan is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River on
Chongming Island,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47800Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Prasad, Neeraj ;
Ranghieri, Federica ;
Shah, Fatima ;
Trohanis, Zoe
This report concerns the operations and
work of the Carbon Finance Unit (CFU) at the World Bank
Insititute duering fiscal year 2009. The year a celebration
of the first...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 61111Date: January 1, 2009
This is the annual progress report of
the Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector and
Infrastructure (NTF-PSI) covering the period January 1
-December 31, 2008. Following...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 52172Date: December 31, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the Third
Development Policy Loan (DPL-III) for Ukraine in the amount
of five...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164101Date: December 22, 2008
Considering the importance of
agricultural activities, especially in the context of food
production, the World Bank Group (WBG) has long made
agriculture a priority...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 82175Date: December 18, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank (WB) Executive Board of Directors approved four
hundred one million US dollars loan to the Mexican
government for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163780Date: December 18, 2008
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