Nutrition Smart Agriculture: When Good
Nutrition is Good Business. Nutrition smart agriculture
(NSmartAg) is a set of agriculture and agro-processing
technologies and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 151605Date: August 10, 2020
This El Salvador country forest note
(CFN) presents a forward-looking business case for the World
Bank to invest in forest management, conservation, and
restoration...
Type: ReportReport#: 155329Date: August 10, 2020Author:
Szott,Lawrence Thomas ;
Obando,German ;
Solano,Gustavo ;
Rivera,Rene
The objective of this report is to
explore innovative financing instruments and approaches for
catalyzing private sector financing to fill the
climate-smart investment...
Type: ReportReport#: 151393Date: August 3, 2020Author:
Carter,Lauren ;
Boukerche,Sandrine
Pacific Island countries have
substantial natural resources, they are rich in cultural
diversity and are rapidly increasing their trade and digital
links with global...
This technical note discusses how to
implement a carbon tax at the national level. A carbon tax
is a tax on fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and
crude oil (including...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151471Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Stretton,Stephen John
As the COVID-19 outbreak has slowed
construction in many countries, the industry has seen lower
demand for its products, leading to overcapacity. Cement
companies are...
Type: ReportReport#: 157052Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Schlorke,Sabine ;
Stec,Marek ;
Villar Mallagray,Juan ;
Kaleem,Hassan
This document provides additional
information on the data collected in Armenia between
December 2019 and August 2020. The survey was part of a
joint project of the European...
The Kyrgyz Republic is a landlocked,
largely mountainous country with rich natural resources that
include a variety of landscapes and ecosystems - mountains
and glaciers,...
Type: ReportReport#: 158953Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Dade,Drite ;
Castaneda Sanchez,Juan Pablo ;
Ismailakhunova,Saida ;
Markhonko,Vladimir ;
Vargas,Renato
The economy of the Kyrgyz Republic is
heavily dependent on the country’s natural resources.
However, there has been until now a broad lack of awareness
of the true value...
Type: ReportReport#: 158952Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Dade,Drite ;
Castaneda Sanchez,Juan Pablo ;
Ismailakhunova,Saida ;
Fomenko,Georgy ;
Ysabekov,Baktygul ;
Vargas,Renato
Globally, the number of confirmed
COVID-19 cases now exceeds 20 million, with more than
750,000 deaths. Despite the continuing spread of the virus,
recent data suggest...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 152016Date: August 1, 2020
While Russia has developed considerably
since its transition to a market-based economy in the 1990s,
the benefits of growth have accrued in an uneven manner,
with larger...
Type: ReportReport#: 153488Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Poznanskaya,Ljudmilla V. ;
Levitanskaya,Katerina
To understand the impacts of support
programs on global emissions, this paper considers the
impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the
border, and investments...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 152852Date: August 1, 2020
Multifamily residential buildings in
earthquake-prone cities across Central Europe, Balkans, and
Central Asia have proved to be vulnerable and have revealed
several...
Type: ReportReport#: 152338Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Markhvida,Maryia
Bhutan’s economy has been severely
affected by Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) and the subsequent
border closure to contain a domestic outbreak of the
pandemic. In this...
In developing countries, battery storage
is becoming a viable way to increase system flexibility and
enable more integration of variable renewable energy.
Battery energy...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 153065Date: August 1, 2020
This document provides additional
information on the data collected in Armenia between
December 2019 and August 2020. The survey was part of a
joint project of the European...
The Trishuli river basin (TRB) covers an
area of 32,000 square kilometers across the central
development region of Nepal and makes up approximately 13
percent of the...
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