This guidance note presents an overview of the benefits of improving energy efficiency in urban water and wastewater utilities (WWUs). It defines the typical energy efficiency and load management measures...
Type: BriefReport#: 138001Date: June 1, 2019Author:
Limaye, Dilip R. ;
Welsien, Kristoffer
Digital financial services have progressed rapidly since the first mobile-money services in East Africa a decade ago. Their early success in Kenya and Tanzania sent telecom firms, banks, technology firms,...
Type: BriefReport#: 141430Date: June 1, 2019Author:
Denyes, Lesley Sarah
Research on citizens as drivers of change and recent reports from the World Bank can inform its citizen engagement mandate. This governance note seeks to contribute to improving the World Bank's entry...
Type: BriefReport#: 138005Date: June 1, 2019Author:
Jespersen, Ann-Sofie ;
Larizza, Marco ;
Schott, Berenike Laura
This case study illustrates how investments in energy-efficient technologies helped a Bosnian soda ash manufacturer reduce climate impacts and increase profits.
Changes in food prices – triggered frequently by natural disasters, macroeconomic shocks or regional market disruptions– can lead to large household welfare effects. At over 60 and 40 percent, food budget...
Type: BriefReport#: 137631Date: June 1, 2019Author:
Baez Ramirez, Javier Eduardo ;
Caruso, German Daniel ;
Pullabhotla, Hemant Kumar
Corporate governance is defined as the structures and processes by which companies are directed and controlled. Good corporate governance helps companies operate more efficiently, improve access to capital,...
Type: BriefReport#: 177581Date: May 31, 2019Author:
World Bank
Natural capital such as cropland and forest resources account for about 40 percent of Cambodia’s wealth and contributes significantly to its economy. Agriculture contributed 27 percent of GDP in 2016 and...
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 29, 2019. The government, Bank Indonesia and Otoritas Jasa Keuangan agreed on twelve programs to expand electronification program for...
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 28, 2019. The committee for acceleration of priority infrastructure delivery (KPPIP) reported only 77 of 223 of national strategic projects...
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 27, 2019. Bank Indonesia (Bl) launched quick response Indonesia standard (QRIS) code system that aims to universalize cashless payment...
Chronic underheating is commonplace among poor households in cold-climate regions of developing countries beyond the reach of district heating and gas-distribution networks. Until fuel switching is possible,...
Type: BriefReport#: 137183Date: May 24, 2019Author:
Zhang, Yabei,Adams, Norma,Pemberton-Pigott, Crispin
As they mature, mini grid sectors evolve from marginally viable competitive entrants to potential monopoly providers of essential services. In early stages, overly stringent regulation can choke the sectors...
Type: BriefReport#: 137182Date: May 24, 2019Author:
World Bank
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 24, 2019. The Indonesian agency for creative economy (Bekraf) signed an agreement with world intellectual property orqanization (WIPO)...
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 23, 2019. Banking credit grew at 11.05 percent yoy in April 2019, while third party fund grew at 6.63 percent yoy in the same period.
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 22, 2019. The government plans to revised regulation on special economic zone (KEK) to regulate non-fiscal incentive for investor.
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 21, 2019. Bank Indonesia issued Bank Indonesia Regulation (PBI) No. 21/7/PBl/2019 to provide greater flexibility by adjusting the underlying...
According to a recent report from the Global Food Safety Partnership, Africans suffer the highest burden of food-borne disease worldwide, with an estimated 137,000 deaths and 91 million illnesses annually....
Type: BriefReport#: 188199Date: May 21, 2019Author:
World Bank
This brief contains the economic highlights of Indonesia as of May 17, 2019. External debt grew by 7.9 percent yoy to USD 387.6 billion at the end of QI 2019, consisting of government and central bank...
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