This press release announces the World
Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a two million
five hundred thousand US dollars grant in additional
financing for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163616Date: July 31, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved thirty
million US dollars loan to support an environmental program
designed to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164193Date: July 31, 2008
This press release announces on July 30,
2008, that the World Bank Group is moving ahead with an
action plan to significantly scale up infrastructure support
to developing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164755Date: July 30, 2008
Energy Service Company (ESCO) in China
are defined as companies which invest in, or facilitate
investments in, energy efficiency projects in other, host
enterprises,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51385Date: July 28, 2008
As numerous countries in Latin America
and the Caribbean and elsewhere are moving toward a second
phase of private participation in infrastructure programs
mostly through...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45625Date: July 25, 2008Author:
Andres,Luis Alberto ;
Foster,Vivien ;
Guasch, J. Luis ;
Haven,Thomas Edward
This press release announces that the
comprehensive measures, including both effective flaring
regulation and more transparent access for independent gas
producers to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163497Date: July 23, 2008
This press release announces that
fourteen states have been selected as the first developing
country members of an innovative partnership and
international financing...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163442Date: July 21, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Managing Director Ngozi N. Okonjo-Iweala
delivered a message of hope to the people of Guinea-Bissau
on Sunday, during...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163544Date: July 21, 2008
This press release announces on the eve
of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Meeting,
which will be held in Geneva, Switzerland the following
week, World...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164811Date: July 20, 2008
This result profile talks about the
electricity sector in Romania. Romania has just become a
regional power exchange, the first in this part of Europe.
Romania’s electricity...
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#: 61169Date: July 9, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
De Kleine, Annette
This press release announces the
statement by World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick
at a joint news conference with United Nations
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163440Date: July 7, 2008
This methodology is for project
activities that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG)
from mosaic deforestation and, where relevant and
measurable, enhance carbon...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47307Date: July 4, 2008Author:
Pedroni, Lucio
This press release announces that the
Central Bank of the Solomon Islands and the World Bank
launched the Sustainable energy financing project, which
marks the effective...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163791Date: July 4, 2008
This press release announces that World
Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick has called on
leaders of the G8 as well as the major oil producers to act
now to deal...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163445Date: July 2, 2008
Africa presents a major infrastructure
deficit, lagging well behind the average for low-income
countries on most major indicators, by at least 20 percent.
These gaps...
In this issue: Launch of international
tiger conservation initiative; Global Environment Facility
(GEF) Earth Fund: a public private partnership; GEF grants
US$1 million...
Carbon labelling is being adopted by
private firms as a mechanism for mitigating climate change.
Such schemes are likely to have a significant impact on
low-income country...
Type: BriefReport#: 45122Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Brenton, Paul ;
Edwards-Jones, Gareth ;
Friis, Michael Jensen
Kenya and Ethiopia are focused on four
key sectors: health, education, water and sanitation, and
private sector development. As part of the World Bank
Netherlands Partnership...
Type: BriefReport#: 44900Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Khadiagala,Gilbert M ;
Kpundeh,Sahr John
South Africa contains internationally
significant biodiversity, habitats, and marine resources.
Although considered a middle-income country, it has wide
economic, racial,...
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