This paper examines the effect of crude
oil prices on the prices of 35 internationally traded
primary commodities for the 1960-2005 period. It finds that
the pass-through...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4333Date: August 1, 2007Author:
Baffes,John
This note asserts that Eastern Europe
and Central Asia is attracting more investment to
infrastructure projects with private participation than any
other developing...
Type: BriefReport#: 41701Date: August 1, 2007Author:
Vagliasindi, Maria ;
Izaguirre, Karina
This paper examines whether the choice
of crops is affected by climate in Africa. Using a
multinomial logit model, the paper regresses crop choice on
climate, soils,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4307Date: August 1, 2007Author:
Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep ;
Mendelsohn, Robert
On July 26, 2007, the World Bank Board
of Executive Directors and the Global Environment Facility
today approved US95.5 million dollars in financing of the
Energy Development...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169730Date: July 26, 2007
The Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE)
for Nigeria will cover the strategy, program, and outcomes
of Bank assistance during the period of July 1, 1998 to June
30, 2007....
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 82243Date: July 23, 2007
Some of the headings included in this
issue of the daily brief economics and financial market
commentary newsletter are as follows: U.S. producer prices
ease in June;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 60712Date: July 17, 2007Author:
Riordan, Mick ;
Savescu, Cristina ;
Ju Kim, Eung ;
Streifel, Shane ;
DeKleine, Annette
The main issues to be analyzed in the
study were identified at a workshop held on September 19,
2006, in Tegucigalpa. It was decided that the study would be
divided...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 42023Date: July 10, 2007
On July 3, 2007, the World Bank Board of
Executive Directors today approved an International
Development Association (IDA) credit of US130 million
dollars to help expand...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169615Date: July 3, 2007
Poland has by far the highest hard coal
production of any country in the European Union and hard
coal will continue to play a crucial role regarding energy
security...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 69704Date: July 2, 2007Author:
Strongman, John ;
Palac, Roman ;
Eftimie, Adriana
On July 2, 2007, more than 142,000
households in Nepal will get long-awaited access to
electricity thanks to the implementation of the Nepal Micro
Hydro Project for...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169435Date: July 2, 2007
Climate change will have far-reaching
consequences for agriculture that will disproportionately
affect the poor. Greater numbers of crop failures and
livestock deaths...
The Annual Performance Report (APR)
prepared by the Evaluation Office of the Global Environment
Facility (GEF) provides an assessment of the results of the
completed...
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: India development
marketplace 2007; list of winners; development dialogue;
recent project...
This report is prepared under contract
to the World Bank as part of a review of PetroVietnam's
(PV's) Gas Master Plan (GMP) for Southern Vietnam for
the period 2006-2015,...
Type: Other Infrastructure StudyReport#: 69790Date: July 1, 2007
From the end of 2005 until April 2006,
the Global Environment Facility (GEF) Evaluation Office
undertook an evaluation of GEF support to Costa Rica the
first time such...
IFC has used Global Environment Facility
(GEF) and other donor funds to explore options for the
commercialization of solar photovoltaic (PV) in the
developing world....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40857Date: July 1, 2007
Biofuels offer a potential source of
renewable energy and could lead to large new markets for
agricultural producers. However, few current biofuel
programs are economically...
This Energy Sector Management Assistance
Program (ESMAP) activity aims at improving and understanding
the status of the CBM/CMM investment and development in
China as...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: ESM326Date: July 1, 2007
This report evaluates outcomes in the
areas targeted by the World Bank's program in Nigeria
from FY1999 - 2007. The Bank provided important assistance
to the government...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 48798Date: June 30, 2007
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