Amid rising oil prices and the adverse
effects of global climate change, Sub-Saharan Africa has an
unprecedented opportunity: choosing a cleaner development
pathway...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47319Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Gouvello, Christophe de; Dayo, Felix B.;
Thioye, Massamba;
This review examines the implementation
of the FY04-06 CAS and evaluates the FY07 CASCR. The CAS
sought to support activities that sustained and deepened
Turkey~^!!^s...
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 42419Date: January 1, 2008
This note is based on a World Bank Group
database that uses transaction values as a proxy for
measuring privatization trends. It includes only the values
resulting from...
Reducing energy use and greenhouse gas
(GHG) emissions in cities is fundamental to any
comprehensive effort to slow the pace of global warming.
Today, half of the world's...
Type: Other Environmental StudyReport#: 70758Date: January 1, 2008
Top news flared in this issue: Nigeria:
gas utilization plan under review; Russia to improve data
reliability; Azerbaijan joins GGFR; Kazakhstan: a win-win
for all;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46561Date: January 1, 2008
This report evaluates best practices for
Jatropha feedstock production, international experience with
Jatropha as a biodiesel, and a business model concept
outline for...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 68687Date: January 1, 2008
This report concerns the operations and
work of the Carbon Finance unit at the World Bank Insititute
during fiscal year 2008. As of December 31, 2008, the World
Bank-managed...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 50293Date: January 1, 2008
Phase one of the formal global
consultations were held from April 1 through July 15, 2008,
on a draft concept and issues paper (the SFCCD). An informal
process of internal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 76423Date: January 1, 2008
This evaluation assesses the Bank
group's support for environmental sustainability in
both the public and private sectors over the past 15 years.
It identifies several...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 44948Date: January 1, 2008
Municipalities are spending large
amounts of their revenue on purchasing energy for providing
local public services such as street lighting and water
supply. Although...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 51340Date: January 1, 2008Author:
Akhalkatsi,Anna
This Public-Private Infrastructure
Advisory Facility Quarterly Report comprises a summary and
the report. The summary includes: program councel news,
technical advisory...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 41723Date: December 31, 2007
This is an overall summary report of the
achievements of the Norwegian Trust Fund for Private Sector
and Infrastructure (NTF-PSI) during the period March 1, 2007
to...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 44603Date: December 31, 2007
On December 21, 2007, the World Bank
Group’s US360 million dollars investment of loans and
guarantees for Uganda’s Bujagali HydropowerProject took
effect this week as...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169626Date: December 21, 2007
This press release announces that the
World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved an
International Development Association (IDA) credit of
forty-one million five...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163615Date: December 20, 2007
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Executive Directors has approved one
hundred five million equivalent IDA credit and a six million
five hundred...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163863Date: December 14, 2007
This speech by Robert B. Zoellick,
President of the World Bank, was given in Bali, Indonesia at
the opening plenary of the 13th conference of the parties to
the UNFCCC...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 125098Date: December 12, 2007Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
On December 12, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Executive Directors today approved a 60 million
dollars loan to the State of Para in Brazil’sAmazon region
to reduce...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169625Date: December 12, 2007
November, led by a large drop in metals
prices on increasing concerns about slowing demand. This was
offset by strong gains in most agriculture prices,
especially fats...
On 10 December, 2007, the World Bank
today approved a US327.57 million dollars Power Project for
the Republic of Egypt where the GlobalEnvironment Facility
(GEF) is...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169343Date: December 10, 2007
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