Nur Navoi solar FE LLC is planning the
construction of large solar power station in the Navoi
region of Uzbekistan. The new solar power station will
produce a maximum...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 151938Date: July 3, 2020Author:
McAlister,Greg
In 2012, the government of the Russian
Federation embarked on an ambitious program of investment
climate reform, with the objective of improving conditions
for businesses...
Fossil fuel importers can apply various
climate and trade taxes to encourage fossil fuel–dependent
countries to cooperate on climate mitigation, and fossil
fuel–dependent...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9315Date: July 2, 2020Author:
Peszko,Grzegorz ;
Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique ;
Golub,Alexander Alexandrovich
This book is the first stocktaking of
what the decarbonization of the world economy means for
fossil fuel–dependent countries. These countries
are the most exposed...
Type: PublicationReport#: 150525Date: July 2, 2020Author:
Peszko,Grzegorz ;
Van Der Mensbrugghe,Dominique ;
Golub,Alexander Alexandrovich ;
Ward,John Frederick ;
Zenghelis,Alexis Dimitri ;
Marijs, Cor ;
Schopp,Anne Carolin ;
Rogers,John Allen ;
Midgley,Amelia
As a result of business regulation
reforms implemented in 2012-2018, the Russian Federation is
almost on a par with the OECD high income economies by the
overall ease...
This report presents the first land
accounts for Zambia based on the methodology of the System
of Ecologic and Economic Accounting (SEEA), where land is
defined as a...
Type: ReportReport#: 154633Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Siame, Kayula ;
Chabala, Chola ;
Yumba, Ndashe
Papua New Guinea’s economy has been hit
hard by the COVID-19 crisis due to weaker demand and less
favorable terms of trade. Pandemic-related global and
national movement...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157031Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Sarsenov,Ilyas ;
Deng,Fei ;
Grinyer,John Joseph Scott ;
Hasanov,Rashad ;
Rabefaniraka,Noroarisoa ;
Cooper,Andrew William ;
Ling,David Tai-Wen ;
Motohashi,Mitsunori ;
Fae,Gerard ;
Maso,Sevesoa ;
Dahan,Stephane Raphael ;
Overbeek,Jan ;
Fitzgerald,Shona Kate ;
Beschorner,Natasha ;
Neumann,James L. ;
Sundakov,Alex ;
Nelson,Jordan
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and
associated containment measures triggered the deepest global
recession in eight decades. As many countries implemented
lockdowns...
The period covered by this annual report
has been a tale of two halves as far as carbon pricing and
markets have been concerned. The first half has seen lots of
global...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 151201Date: July 1, 2020
The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC)
is increasingly recognizing that adequate valuation of
ecosystem services is a key input to improved
decision-making on protected...
This note focuses on the welfare and
competition (WELCOM) microsimulation tool. WELCOM, an
easy-to-use stata-based package with minimum data
requirements, was conceived...
Type: BriefReport#: 151250Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos ;
Malasquez Carbonel,Eduardo Alonso ;
Granguillhome Ochoa,Rogelio
This note illustrates the
multidimensional nature of poverty in Djibouti. The authors
use the multidimensional poverty index (MPI), which captures
several welfare dimensions...
Type: BriefReport#: 151255Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Mendiratta,Vibhuti ;
Duplantier,Anne Marie
This is the first of a new series of
Debt Reports for 2020 to be published online, at regular
intervals, over the course of the year. Their aim is to
provide users with...
North Macedonia continues to improve its
environmental performance and the efficacy of its
environmental regulation. As part of this effort, the World
Bank is working...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 156798Date: July 1, 2020
Lebanon's power sector has long
been at the center of the country's economic and fiscal
challenges as it adds to the high fiscal and trade deficits,
requiring significant...
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: July 1, 2020
Tragic levels of death, destruction,
displacement, and disorder from ongoing conflicts in Iraq,
Libya, Syria, and Yemen require a new approach focused on
building –...
Type: ReportReport#: 150418Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Recanatini,Francesca ;
Hamilton,Ellen ;
Elattar,Mahi Amr Abdelkhalek Tawfik ;
De Cosmo,Sergio ;
Saba,Joseph P. ;
Heger,Katrin Miriam Johanna
This paper investigates reasons of
Georgian targeted social assistance (TSA)’s declining
performance and presents a new proxy means test (PMT) model
estimated on the...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 151694Date: July 1, 2020Author:
Honorati,Maddalena ;
Sormani,Roberto Claudio ;
Carraro,Ludovico
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has
caused many dislocations to the power sector. However, as
the pandemic eases and mobility increases, economic activity
is likely...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 151299Date: June 30, 2020Author:
Bakovic,Tonci R. ;
Kroese,Roy Francis ;
Lama,Nuru ;
Akcura,Elcin
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