The petroleum sector briefing notes up
to this issue have focused on upstream exploration and
production. But crude oil has to be traded, refined, and
marketed before...
This study points out that hydroelectric
plants will continue to play a prominent role in the
Brazilian electric matrix. A significant portion of the
potential hydroelectric...
Type: Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)Report#: 40995Date: March 28, 2008
This press release announces that in
support of the government of Sri Lanka’s efforts to ensure
the safety of the public from risks of ageing dams and to
manage its...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163742Date: March 27, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved fifty
million US dollars grant to help reopen and maintain roads,
critical for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163934Date: March 18, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank approved six hundred million US dollars loan to
the Power Grid Corporation of India, backed by a government
of India...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163898Date: March 18, 2008
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#: 60998Date: March 14, 2008Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
DeKleine, Annette
It has long been claimed that rural
electrification greatly improves the quality of life.
Lighting alone brings benefits such as increased study time
and improved study...
Type: PublicationReport#: 45400Date: March 6, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR)
called on oil producing countries and companies in the
Middle East...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164962Date: March 5, 2008
The main motivation for Middle East and
North Africa Region (MENA) governments to improve energy
efficiency is to address pressing domestic concerns, such as
urban air...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 44452Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Zhang,Yabei
This report is the second in a series of
country portfolio evaluations produced by the evaluation
office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GEF
council had...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 60784Date: March 1, 2008
The National Oil Companies (NOCs) matter
because they dominate the proven oil reserves that are
expected to supply the world's growing need for liquid
fuels. Also, in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47102Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Stevens, Paul
From January to April 2007, the
Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
carried out an evaluation of GEF support to Samoa, the third
such country...
This paper analyzes the economic and
environmental consequences of a potential demand side
management program in Thailand using a general equilibrium
model. The program...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4563Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Timilsina, Govinda R.
Market-based reforms in China's
urban centralized heating sector are essential to addressing
the perpetual inefficiency of a sector built on welfare
based principles....
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 44988Date: March 1, 2008Author:
Meyer, Anke Sofia; Kalkum, Bernd;
The evaluation's objectives were
to: (1) provide the Global Environment Facility (GEF)
council with additional information on the results of
GEF-supported activities...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 60785Date: March 1, 2008
From December 2006 to April 2007, the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) evaluation office carried
out an evaluation of GEF support to the Philippines. This
was the second...
This press release announces that the
World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the day
before a thirty-five million US dollars loan to increase
incomes from...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163665Date: February 27, 2008
This press release announces that the
World Bank and the Republic of Togo signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) concerning the process of clearance of
arrears owed...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164529Date: February 27, 2008
This press release announces the poorest
people in the world’s poorest countries will suffer the
earliest and the most from climate change, according to that
year’s...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163403Date: February 27, 2008
This press release announces that with
energy prices and greenhouse gas emissions ballooning at the
same time as energy demand from China, India and Brazil is
surging,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164584Date: February 27, 2008
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