The Committee on Development
Effectiveness (CODE) met to consider the report entitled
Renewable Energy: Evaluation of the World Bank Group's
Support for Electricity...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 154077Date: September 16, 2020
Progress towards ensuring access to
modern cooking solutions, a key component to achieving
Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), has been slow.
Today, 2.8 billion...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 152992Date: September 15, 2020Author:
ESMAP
Progress towards ensuring access to
modern cooking solutions, a key component to achieving
Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG 7), has been slow.
Today, 2.8 billion...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 152992Date: September 15, 2020Author:
ESMAP
Management practices matter for firm
performance. As energy is one input in firm production,
management practices may interact with energy use. Using a
comprehensive...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9397Date: September 14, 2020Author:
Grover,Arti Goswami ;
Karplus,Valerie Jean
This report aims to increase awareness
of effective ways to reduce emissions in the transport
sector by outlining the planning, implementation, and
management of electric...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001853Date: September 11, 2020
Digital elevation models (DEMs)
represents the elevation of the earth’s surface in the form
of a digital image where each pixel contains an elevation
value of the center...
Type: ReportReport#: 152896Date: September 11, 2020Author:
Croneborg,Louise E. M. ;
Saito,Keiko ;
Matera,Michel ;
McKeown,Don ;
Van Aardt,Jan Andreas
The first round of survey results
reported in the Myanmar Coronavirus (COVID-19) monitoring
platform revealed that impacts on employment between March
and May 2020 were...
Type: BriefReport#: 153169Date: September 11, 2020
Senegal has experienced a rapid
expansion in fixed and mobile broadband internet
infrastructure over the past decade. This paper examines the
relationship between access...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9386Date: September 8, 2020Author:
Masaki,Takaaki ;
Granguillhome Ochoa,Rogelio ;
Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
This paper investigates the local
effects of mining on the quality of public services and on
people's optimism about their future living conditions.
It also assesses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9385Date: September 8, 2020Author:
Konte,Maty ;
Vincent,Rose Camille
This paper reviews resource sector
developments in 12 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that made
their first (major) petroleum discoveries during the most
recent commodity...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9384Date: September 8, 2020Author:
Mihalyi,David ;
Scurfield,Thomas
The High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms
(HFPS-F) interviews a sample of firms in Addis Ababa every
three weeks for a total of eight survey rounds. This
high-frequency...
Mines represent Mongolia’s present,
while minds - broadly defined to include people and
institutions - are its future. Current policies are
excessively focused on preserving...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 153064Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Nganou,Jean-Pascal ;
Eckardt,Sebastian ;
Zhao,Luan ;
Batsuuri,Davaadalai ;
Batmunkh,Undral ;
D'Hulster,Katia
Objectives of this exercise are to: (a)
Update the SA RICE strategic framework, given the evolving
context (especially COVID-19) following a highly
consultative (internal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 152000Date: September 1, 2020
This report presents an overview of
Algeria’s recent macroeconomic developments and of its
short-term economic outlook. The report is divided into two
chapters. Chapter...
Type: ReportReport#: 155582Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Desponts,Cyril ;
Le Borgne,Eric
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and
the resulting economic shutdown have severely depressed
electricity demand across the globe, with acute consequences
for the...
Type: BriefReport#: 154594Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Apfalter,Stefan ;
Hommes,Martin ;
Torres Pereira Mendes,Joaquim Miguel ;
Toba,Natsuko
This evidence review is designed to
support policy makers seeking to implement a tax on
sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB). It synthesizes the latest
global evidence of...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS0001456Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Hattersley,Libby ;
Thiebaud,Alessia ;
Silver,Lynn D. ;
Mandeville,Kate
Artificial intelligence (AI) the science
of making machines act in rational, intelligent ways is
rapidly making inroads into business operations and society.
AI is already...
Type: ReportReport#: 157069Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Bakovic,Tonci R. ;
Biallas,Margarete O. ;
Lopez Conde,Maria Francisca ;
Cook,Peter A. ;
Diwan,Prajakta ;
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien ;
Kaleem,Hassan ;
Makala,Baloko ;
Manchanda,Sumit ;
Menes,Rebecca Ann ;
Mockel,Peter ;
Mou,Xiaomin ;
Myers,Gordon I. ;
Nejkov,Kiril ;
Niforos,Marina ;
O'Neill,Felicity Maree ;
Rana,Ahmed Nauraiz ;
Roy,Friedemann ;
Saberi,Ommid ;
Schlorke,Sabine ;
Sonneborn,William Charles ;
Strusani,Davide ;
Twinn,Christopher Ian
Countries that strike it rich when
exploring for oil and gas often fail to see growth
materialize. This paper shows that one way things can get
messy is via squandering...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9374Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Vezina,Pierre-Louis
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