The rapid rise in food prices has been a
burden on the poor in developing countries, who spend
roughly half of their household incomes on food. This paper
examines the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4682Date: July 1, 2008Author:
Mitchell, Donald
The annual country portfolio evaluation
report 2008 prepared by the Evaluation Office of the Global
Environment Facility (GEF), this first report summarizes
three Country...
Madagascar is one of the most important
biodiversity conservation 'hotspots' worldwide.
Although it takes up less than 2 percent of the Africa
region, it is home to...
Benin is a coastal West African country
with significant forests and biodiversity. It is also one of
the poorest countries in the world with a rapidly
deteriorating...
The purpose of the toolkit is to
facilitate knowledge transfer among World Bank Group staff
and clients on how to design and prepare projects that
support the development...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44679Date: June 30, 2008
This report provides a brief description
of the conclusions and recommendations resulting
from a World Bank mission to Yemen, May 24 to June 1, 2008.
The objectives...
The Asia Sustainable and Alternative
Energy Program (ASTAE) has played a key role in supporting
sustainable energy use in developing Asian countries by
increasing World...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 51387Date: June 30, 2008
Some petroleum revenue funds have been
upheld as models for successful nonrenewable resource
management. But international experience with petroleum
revenue funds has...
This press release announces the central
finding of The carbon productivity challenge : Curbing
climate change and sustaining economic growth, a new report
by the McKinsey...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164528Date: June 29, 2008
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the daily brief economics and financial market
commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. consumer spending
rose more...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 61063Date: June 27, 2008Author:
De Kleine Feige,Annette I. ;
Kim,Eung Ju ;
Riordan,Elliot Joseph ;
Savescu,Cristina ;
Streifel,Shane S.
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved fifteen million US dollars grant from
the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with the aim to
increase the efficiency...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163713Date: June 26, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved an
International Development Association (IDA)additional credit
in the amount...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164243Date: June 26, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved
twenty-nine million five hundred thousand US dollars
financing for Eritrea’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164100Date: June 26, 2008
This press release announces the first
Development Marketplace for the African Diaspora in Europe
(D-MADE) has ended in Brussels with a total jury award of
close to...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163312Date: June 26, 2008
The main purpose of this paper is to
document and discuss infrastructure gaps, investment needs,
and policy challenges in improving infrastructure services,
with an...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: AAA34Date: June 26, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved thirty-eight million US dollars IDA
credit to the government of Pakistan, to support management
and development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164172Date: June 26, 2008
Peru is favored by a stable and growing
economy and the availability of indigenous sources of energy
for electricity generation, hydro and natural gas. Installed
capacity...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 63669Date: June 26, 2008Author:
Meier, Peter ;
Zolezzi, Eduardo ;
Muir, Terence ;
Bogach, Susan ;
Bazex, Karen
This report summarizes the Environmental
and Social Management Framework (ESMF) prepared for the
proposed Colombia Solid Waste Management Project (SWMP) l.
The ESMF...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 44829Date: June 25, 2008
This press release announces the World
Bank Board of Executive Directors approved sixty-five
million US dollars equivalent project that will bring
electricity to people...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163613Date: June 24, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved twenty
million US dollars equivalent operation to finance an
Environmental and...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164144Date: June 24, 2008
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