Versatility, ease of deployment, modular design, and falling costs make stationary energy storage systems appealing for integrating renewable electricity into grids. Their most common uses are in hybrid...
Type: BriefReport#: 159999Date: May 25, 2021Author:
Govindarajalu,Chandrasekar ;
De Sisternes,Fernando Jose ;
Chavez Velazquez,Sandra Laura
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic has devastated lives and damaged economies, requiring strong and decisive policy responses from governments. Developing the optimal short-term and long-term policy response...
Type: BriefReport#: 159171Date: May 24, 2021Author:
Islamaj,Ergys ;
Ruch,Franz Ulrich ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T.
This is the first of a three-part case study under the Mashreq gender facility (MGF) partnership with intaj and Jordanian national commission for women (JNCW) to highlight forward-thinking companies and...
This brief provides a summary of the Moldova Economic Update for Spring 2021. It outlines recent developments and the medium-term outlook. It also includes a link to the full update which includes tables...
Type: BriefReport#: 180822Date: May 19, 2021Author:
World Bank
The presented common agriculture policy (CAP) 2023-2027 will be implemented with a new delivery model that allows for a more simplified, flexible, and results-based approach for member states through the...
The High-Frequency Phone Survey for refugees in Uganda (URHFPS) tracked the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis on refugees throughout three rounds. The World Bank (WB) in collaboration...
International Finance Corporation (IFC’s) annual survey of its banking clients continues to provide insight into the potential size and financial performance of women-owned small and medium enterprises...
Type: BriefReport#: 159087Date: May 18, 2021Author:
Schnabel,Jessica A. ;
Pulizzi,Henry
This note describes how political economy analysis can be used to promote development, focusing specifically on state capture. It is intended to help practitioners within the World Bank execute and disseminate...
Type: BriefReport#: 159049Date: May 17, 2021Author:
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Rijkers,Bob
The May 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics : Vietnam is experiencing the fourth outbreak of locally transmitted COVID-19 infections that started in late April 2021, triggering...
Sustainably managing forests and landscapes is key to improving livelihoods, protecting biodiversity, reducing deforestation and carbon emissions, and fostering sustainable economic growth. The Indonesia...
Type: BriefReport#: 159024Date: May 13, 2021Author:
Rodrigues De Aquino,Andre
The most important factor impacting the long-term fiscal sustainability of pay-as-you-go national pension systems is population ageing. Population ageing directly impacts pension systems and their fiscal...
In 2000, Financiera Compartamos was transformed from a non-governmental organization (NGO) into a finance company structured as a Sociedad Financiera de Objeto Limitado (SOFOL). In 2002, the Company successfully...
The project was designed to help mobilize funding from alternative sources, including domestic institutional investors, in order to provide financing to Argentine exporters. Second Exportadores not only...
The Baltic American Enterprise Fund (BalAEF) is a privately managed Delaware corporation that began operations in 1995. It is the first residential mortgage securitization out of Central and Eastern Europe....
The project is the first private sector student loan program in Chile targeting mainly low-income students. Loans to qualified students are made by Banco de Credito e Inversiones (BCI) and administered...
Banco Davivienda was established in 1973 as a Corporacion de Ahorro y Vivienda (CAV) to supply mortgage loans to the public. The primary objective of the issue was to bolster Davivienda’s Tier II capital...
Banco BBA-Creditanstalt (BBA, the Bank) is a private financial institution established in 1998 as a joint venture between Creditanstalt-Bankverein and two Brazilian shareholders. By offering a partial...
Five-year bond was issued by the Chuvash Republic to finance its capital expenditure program. It was the first sub-national bond in Russia issued with a guarantee from a third party. International Finance...
Celtel Uganda Ltd. is the first International Finance Corporation (IFC) risk sharing facility for small and medium enterprise (SME) in the telecommunications sector. It is designed to improve assess to...
The transaction was structured as a securitization of Drokasa’s current and future sales receivables by using a bankruptcy remote trust domiciled in Peru. It contributed to the development of local capital...
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