This is the second report to the Board
on progress in implementing the Management Response (MR) to
the reports of the Extractive Industries Review (EIR) and
the World...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 38309Date: December 1, 2006
The Bujagali Hydropower Project is a
proposed 250 MW hydropower facility on the Victoria Nile in
the Republic of Uganda. The main sections of this Social and
Environmental...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 38394Date: December 1, 2006
Electricity shortage in the region
reinforces the importance of improving billing and
collection rates in Kosovo. A value-developing tax. Public
Private Partnerships...
This policy study on universal access to
electric power (universal service) in China is based on
research conducted by the China Electricity Regulatory
Commission in...
Type: Other Public Sector StudyReport#: 68968Date: December 1, 2006
Meeting the energy needs of developing
countries in an environmentally sustainable manner is an
urgent challenge. Clean energy underpins sustainable growth
and poverty...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 46794Date: December 1, 2006Author:
Berman, Laura ;
Constant, Samantha ;
Missfeldt-Ringius, Fanny ;
Sarkar, Ashok ;
Utria, Boris ;
Cabraal, Anil
This report consist of the Executive
Summary of the Social and Environmental Assessment Report
for the Private Power Generation Project (i.e. the Bujagali
Hydropower...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 38396Date: December 1, 2006
The overriding goal of the FY03-05
Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) was to help Azerbaijan
translate its anticipated temporary oil boom into sustained
poverty reduction....
Type: CAS Completion Report ReviewReport#: 89011Date: November 22, 2006
The purpose of this IEG review is
twofold: serve as a pilot for the IEG study on Bank
assistance in agriculture scheduled for FY09 and develop a
methodology and a conceptual...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 82174Date: November 21, 2006
On Nov. 19, 2006, at a meeting of the
G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors, officials
voiced support for several initiatives important to the
World Bank,...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164615Date: November 19, 2006
On November 15, 2006, the World Bank’s
Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved
implementation of region-wide technical assistance to the
International Geothermal...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 165623Date: November 15, 2006
On November 14, 2006, the World Bank
Board of Executive Directors today approved an International
Development Association (IDA) credit of US30 million dollars
to establish...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164991Date: November 14, 2006
On November 10, 2006, the World Bank’s
Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR) today called
on oil producing countries and companies to reduce the
burning of...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 169175Date: November 10, 2006
Non-oil commodity prices rose 1.5
percent in October. The index has been relatively flat since
May but is up 22 percent year-to-date. Metals prices have
been the driving...
The primary objectives of the
incremental cost evaluation were to evaluate the processes
and methodologies used for incremental cost assessment, and
the process of negotiation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 39192Date: November 2, 2006
In this issue: money for nothing: the
dire straits of medical practice in Delhi, India; World Bank
research digest: an effective way to disseminate research
findings;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 48380Date: November 1, 2006
Thailand's economic growth of 4.5
percent this year, the same as last year's, is a large
drop from the 6 percent that was averaged in the 2002-04
period. This is largely...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38192Date: November 1, 2006
Five Asian nations, India, Indonesia,
Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam began designing or
instituting Small Power Producer (SPP) programs in the
mid-1990s to support...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 38350Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Cabraal,Ravindra Anil ;
Ferry, Steven
In this issue: Third GEF Assembly - a
retrospective: UNDP view of Assembly; overview of the IYDD
forum; overview of the NGO forum; evaluation office;
roundtables; market-based...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 38428Date: November 1, 2006
Energy efficiency can help address the
challenge of increasing access to modern energy services,
reduce the need for capital-intensive supply investments as
well as...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 38619Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Bosi,Martina ;
Figueres Olsen,Karen-Christiana
The evaluation on the Experience of
Executing Agencies under Expanded Opportunities in the GEF
addresses four key questions: a. How has the participation
of the Executing...
Type: Global Environment Facility Working PaperReport#: 39190Date: November 1, 2006Author:
Gonzalez Hernandez,Oscar ;
Tokle,Siv Elin
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