This policy note summarizes the results
of a Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) and a
consultative decision making process carried out over a
two-year period...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 40019Date: September 1, 2008
This is the annual report of
International Finance Corporation's (IFC)
sustainability business innovator, today is first and
foremost a partnership for social and environmental
...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 46703Date: September 1, 2008
The first of a series on climate change,
this evaluation assesses International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International
Development Association...
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Social Development Department announced the
launch of a world-wide documentary competition that will
highlight the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164588Date: August 25, 2008
This press release announces on August
7, 2008, that the reform of heat pricing and billing is a
crucial part of overall heat reform, according to a report
recently...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163673Date: August 7, 2008
This press release announces the reform
of heat pricing and billing is a crucial part of overall
heat reform, according to a report recently released by the
Energy Sector...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163310Date: August 7, 2008
This press release announces that the
three new World Bank-financed projects, approved the day
before, will support China’s effort to improve the country’s
efficient...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163675Date: August 7, 2008
The Bank Group's lending and
non-lending support for environmental sustainability has
increased and improved over the past 15 years. But the
institution needs to raise...
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors met the day before
and discussed the independent Inspection Panel investigation
of the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164636Date: August 6, 2008
This press release announces that the
practical help is at hand for city planners and
administrators around the world who are attempting to come
to terms with the increased...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163552Date: August 5, 2008
The consultations on development and
climate change held at United Stateson September 4, 2008 on
the strategic framework for the World Bank Group include
following headings:...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76408Date: August 4, 2008
Some petroleum revenue funds have been
upheld as models for successful nonrenewable resource
management. But international experience with petroleum
revenue funds has...
This paper examines the levels of and
changes in vulnerability to oil price increases between 1996
and 2006 in 161 countries for which data are available.
Vulnerability...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 48422Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Bacon, Robert ; Kojima, Masami
There is a debate among policy analysts
about whether fuel taxes alone are the most effective policy
to reduce fuel use by motorists, or whether to also use
mandatory...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4695Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Eskeland, Gunnar S. ;
Mideksa, Torben K.
Oil is important in every economy; when
its prices are high and volatile, governments feel compelled
to intervene. Because there can be large costs associated
with such...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 45057Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Bacon, Robert ;
Kojima, Masami
This issue of the Agriculture and Rural
Development (ARD) newsletter includes the following
headings: message from management; ARD welcomes new staff;
ARD and the food...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 103544Date: August 1, 2008
This paper includes the following
articles: at last, a practical guide to climate-proof our
cities; and poor Chon Buri village benefits from first World
Bank (WB)-supported...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 45107Date: August 1, 2008
This paper begins by comparing CO2 taxes
and emissions trading from a domestic perspective across a
broad range of criteria of potential concern to policy
makers. Next...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 45125Date: August 1, 2008Author:
Aldy, Joseph E.; Ley, Eduardo; Parry, Ian;
South Asian region is enjoying
unprecedented economic growth. The growth, however, is
becoming constrained by significant shortages in energy
supply, and unless corrective...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 46282Date: August 1, 2008
The objective of the El-Ain Al-Sokhna
2x650 MWe Gas/Oil Thermal Power Project for Egypt is to
identify the environmental and social impacts of
construction and operation...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 45463Date: August 1, 2008
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