Lack of access to reliable and
affordable electricity services in rural areas significantly
diminishes the opportunities for the development of many
economically productive...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 40267Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Giovannucci, Daniele [editor] ;
Weingart,Jerome
A universal concern in infrastructure
reforms is the effect such reforms have on labor.
State-owned infrastructure firms often employ more people
than required for efficiency,...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28823Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Kikeri,Sunita ;
Smulders,Olaf ;
Terry Green ;
Brend
In 1993 the Board of the World Bank
endorsed a Water Resources Management Policy Paper (WRMPP).
In that paper, and in this Strategy, water resources
management comprises...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28114Date: January 1, 2004
Forest resources directly contribute to
the livelihoods of 90 percent of the 1.2 billion people
living in extreme poverty and indirectly support the natural
environment...
Type: PublicationReport#: 29704Date: January 1, 2004
Analyses of the determinants of child
labor have largely neglected the role of access to basic
services. The availability of these services can affect the
value of children's...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 43925Date: January 1, 2004Author:
Guarcello, L. ;
Lyon, S. ;
Rosati, F. C.
In 1993 the Board of the World Bank
endorsed a Water Resources Management Policy Paper (WRMPP).
In that paper, and in this Strategy, water resources
management comprises...
Type: PublicationReport#: 28114Date: January 1, 2004
Among the highlights of the 2002 Annual
Report for the Prototype Carbon Fund were the following:
negotiating 14 emission reductions purchase transactions;
developing...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 27468Date: December 31, 2003
Gaps in knowledge about the interface
between energy and the environment, were identified sometime
in the late 1990s, and a number of studies were then
conceived to...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM273Date: December 30, 2003
This news release, dated December 9,
2003, announces the World Bank’s Board of Executive
Directors approved a United States (U.S.) 250 million
dollars second programmatic...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162707Date: December 9, 2003
This news release, dated December 9,
2003, announces the World Bank approved two loans for a
total amount of 324.3 million dollars for irrigation
modernization and community...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163098Date: December 9, 2003
This paper reviews the changes in the
supply of electricity and gas from the perpective of
households, utility operators, and the government. The
objective is to highlight...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27930Date: December 1, 2003Author:
Hamilton,Ellen ;
Hernan Gonzalez ;
Lampietti,Julian A. ;
Wilson,Margaret A. ;
Vashakmadze,Sergo
In a one-period model, whether or not
individual weights in the welfare function are based on
initial endowments dictate who provides public goods. But
with long-term...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS3180Date: December 1, 2003Author:
Hourcade,Jean Charles ;
Lecocq,Franck Michel
The oil and gas potential of
Vietnam's continental shelf remains relatively
unexplored compared with that of its neighbors, including
China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM269Date: December 1, 2003
This volume presents a set of Policy
Notes prepared by the World Bank's Brazil Team with
partners during 2002 as a contribution for the debate of
policies by the new...
Type: PublicationReport#: 27832Date: December 1, 2003
The emerging carbon market encompasses
both project-based emission reduction transactions, whereby
a buyer participates in the financing of a project which
reduces greenhouse...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 36010Date: December 1, 2003Author:
Capoor,Karan ;
Lecocq,Franck Michel
These are the proceedings from the South
Asia Practitioners Workshop (SAPW), which presents emerging
lessons, and practices from village energy programs,
implemented...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM268Date: November 30, 2003
The summary reviews the Energy Sector
Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) activities in energy
efficiency (EE), from 1997 to 2002, and evaluates thematic
impacts,...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: ESM271Date: November 30, 2003
This news release, dated November 25,
2003, announces the World Bank’s Board of Executive
Directors approved a United States (U.S.) 35 million dollars
credit for the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162415Date: November 25, 2003
Azerbaijan's early transition to an
independent, market-based economy has been tumultuous,
entailing significant economic costs, and social impacts.
Yet, unlike many...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 25818Date: November 20, 2003
This news release, dated November 4,
2003, announces the World Bank’s Board of Directors approved
an International Development Association (IDA) credit of
United States...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 162644Date: November 4, 2003
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