Trade and participation in global value
chains can play a key role in economic diversification and
development. This paper deepens the discussion about
productivity...
Digital connectivity - access to
affordable and reliable internet services—has become a key
driver of economic and social development globally. Economic
activities and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134271Date: June 1, 2018
Green Small and Growing Businesses
(SGBs) in South Africa often struggle to take full advantage
of local market opportunities and lack the global assets
required to...
As environmental challenges mount in
Kenya, including in the plastics waste sector, a growing
number of companies are seeking business opportunities in
green sectors....
Cybersecurity includes a set of
activities focused on protecting computers, networks,
programs, and data from unauthorized and or unintended
access. As such, cybersecurity...
Type: ReportReport#: 164348Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Mandic,Stjepan
Environment-friendly transport
solutions’ (EFTS) is one of three sub-thematic priority
areas (STPAs) grouped under the transport and mobility
thematic priority area...
As Malaysia continues to strive toward
high-income status, accelerating productivity growth has
become the country’s central economic policy challenge.
Productivity...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126781Date: June 1, 2018
In the past 25 years, a number of
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and private companies
have been established to provide goods and services to mine
action programs...
Type: ReportReport#: 164349Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Bacic,Kazimir Luka
The CRI starts with a series of
individual meetings with firms and institutions, which serve
to prepare a first ‘public meeting’ (PM) open to all
sub-thematic priority...
Type: ReportReport#: 164328Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Lapres,Blair Edward ;
Punda,Petar ;
Matanovic,Igor ;
Kukavcic, Tihana ;
Duch Navarro,Emiliano ;
Yap,Justin ;
Iootty De Paiva Dias,Mariana
Access to appropriate financing is often
cited as one of the biggest challenges to scaling small
businesses. This is a particularly critical problem in
climate-related...
Type: ReportReport#: 119912Date: June 1, 2018Author:
White,Justine
A green lending product was designed to
connect green investors, peer-to-peer lenders,
intermediaries and green small and growing businesses in
order to efficiently...
For green Small and Growing Businesses
(SGBs), access to finance is one of the key constraints in
scaling innovative business models. Investors, even those
with the...
This report summarizes emerging issues
and constraints in the energy sector related to the goal of
securing an affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy
supply in...
Type: ReportReport#: 128400Date: June 1, 2018Author:
Vasquez,Claudia ;
Begolli,Rhedon ;
Van Gelder,Linda ;
Shukla,Sameer
Propelled by favorable domestic and
external conditions, Vietnam’s economy posted its
strongest first-quarter growth in a decade.
Vietnam’s external position...
Type: ReportReport#: 172582Date: May 31, 2018Author:
Eckardt,Sebastian ;
Dinh,Viet Tuan ;
De Kleine Feige,Annette I. ;
Pham,Duc Minh ;
Oh, Jen Jung Eun
Top-IX offers a Euro 20million project
opportunity requiring a Euro12 million investment, resulting
in a Net-Present Value (NPV) of Euro 8 million. This
proposition...
The objective of the Additional
Financing for the Noor Solar Power Project for Morocco is to
increase: (a) installed capacity (megawatt) and (b)
electricity output (megawatt‐hour),...
This baseline diagnostic, takes an
in-depth analysis of a sub-sector, off-grid solar, which has
been identify as one with significant potential in Egypt by
a recent...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 127144Date: May 1, 2018
Transport is a key element in the
infrastructure of a nation as it provides services essential
for promoting economic and social development and plays a
significant...
The 27th Report to the Government of Lao
PDR (GOL) of the Panel of Experts (POE) on its mission of
November-December 2017 reviews achievement of the
Resettlement Objectives...
Type: Working PaperReport#: POE27Date: May 1, 2018Author:
Mcdowell,David K. ;
Mann,Elizabeth ;
Talbot,Lee M.
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