Cooking with electricity could make a
significant contribution to achieving Sustainable
Development Goal No.7 by simultaneously enabling
cost-effective access to modern...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 153151Date: November 18, 2020Author:
ESMAP
Armenia is classified as a developing
country and upper-middle income economy and has a restricted
financial capacity to build and maintain a large and complex
fire...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001956Date: November 17, 2020
This reference paper aims to help World
Bank Group (WBG) teams assess the welfare and distributional
impacts of private sector participation in interventions in
infrastructure...
Type: ReportReport#: 157176Date: November 16, 2020Author:
Narayan,Ambar ;
Harris,Clive G. ;
Illouz,Esther ;
Guimaraes Drummond E Silva,Luciana ;
Nssah,Essama ;
Gears,Cynthia ;
Entsuah,Afua Ayew ;
Bishop,Ann Josephine Louise
Globally, cities are the source of over
70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Cities are also the engines of the global economy,
concentrating more than...
Type: ReportReport#: 154408Date: November 13, 2020Author:
Ababsa,Myriam ;
Hussein,Ahmad Z. Abu ;
Mehrotra,Shagun ;
Lewis,Lincoln Landon ;
Orloff,Mariana ;
Olberding,Beth
Key challenges to discover new potential
and enhance exploration promotion are: poor data quality and
density yield low interpretation results; there is a need
for review...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 154380Date: November 10, 2020Author:
Blaizot,Marc Rene Michel
Regulatory compliance is key in the
fight against climate change and other environmental
challenges. But regulatory agencies, especially in
developing countries, are...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9468Date: November 4, 2020Author:
Franco Bedoya,Sebastian ;
Mani,Muthukumara S.
Energy efficiency is among the cheapest,
cleanest, and most widely available of energy resources.
Improved energy efficiency provides opportunities to
sustainably expand...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 154123Date: November 3, 2020Author:
ESMAP
This guidebook for evaluators and other
evaluation stakeholders provides an introductory overview of
a range of methods that have been selected for their actual
and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 155317Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Vaessen,Jozef Leonardus ;
Lemire,Sebastian Thomas ;
Befani,Barbara
Blended concessional finance (BF), the
use of catalytic capital from public or philanthropic
sources to increase private sector investment—is becoming an
important instrument...
Type: ReportReport#: 156762Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Mutambatsere,Emelly ;
Schellekens,Philip
Deep tech companies aim to address the
world’s biggest challenges. These include providing Internet
access to the unconnected, reducing greenhouse gas
emissions, significantly...
Guyana stands at the threshold of a new
era. The recent discovery of vast offshore oil and gas
(O&G) reserves and the start of production, is poised to
fundamentally...
Type: Systematic Country DiagnosticReport#: 135127Date: November 1, 2020
Europe 4.0: Addressing the Digital
Dilemma examines the underlying economics of different types
of digital technologies. It highlights what the new drivers
of change...
Type: ReportReport#: 154213Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Hallward-Driemeier,Mary C. ;
Nayyar,Gaurav ;
Fengler,Wolfgang ;
Aridi,Anwar
The Accelerated Electricity Expansion
Project for Liberia aims to increase access to electricity
and strengthen institutional capacity in the electricity
sector in the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 154537Date: November 1, 2020
The Oil and Gas Capacity Building
Project aims to support Ghana’s efforts to (i) improve
management and regulatory capacity while enhancing
transparency, and (ii) strengthen...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 154542Date: November 1, 2020
The First Phase of the Inter-Zonal
Transmission Hub Project WAPP (APL3) Program aims to reduce
cost and improve security of the electricity supply to
Burkina Faso while...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 154536Date: November 1, 2020
After the return to democracy, Ghana
achieved significant economic growth and poverty reduction.
However, in recent years, the rate of poverty reduction has
slowed,...
Type: Poverty AssessmentReport#: AUS0001903Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Dang,Hai-Anh H. ;
Shimmei,Keita ;
Stewart,Benjamin P. ;
Fatima,Freeha ;
Pavelesku,Dan ;
Abanokova,Ksenia ;
Opoku,Kwadwo
The following is a Guidance Tool on
climate adaptation and mitigation interventions which can be
incorporated into project/program designs of HNP operations,
and which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 166794Date: November 1, 2020
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