• Water Brings Life to Farmlands in Kandahar Province
    Previously un-cultivable lands are now producing good harvests as a result of the reconstruction of an ancient irrigation canal, benefiting hundreds of families. The rehabilitation of the irrigation system...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179359 Date: July 20, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • It’s Time for Latin America to Adapt to Global Climate Change
    For World Bank experts, it’s clear that Latin America will be one of the regions most affected by climate change, especially if the world fails to keep global warming under 2C. In total, 2.2% of the Latin...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179534 Date: July 18, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • How Can Zambia Benefit More from Mining?
    This story highlights a recent review of Zambia's mining sector governance and investment attractiveness shows the country remains an appealing place for investment due to its favorable geology; long history...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166537 Date: July 18, 2016
  • Grantee Interview : Toward Gender-Smart Transport in East Asia and the Pacific
    This story highlights interviews with grantees of the World Bank Group’s umbrella facility for gender equality (UFGE).
    Type: Brief Report#: 166708 Date: July 14, 2016
  • Quality Improvement Program and Community Participation Boost School Enrollment in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan
    Enrollment in a girls’ school in Kandahar Province has seen a significant increase as a result of new facilities and greater community involvement, leading to improvements in learning outcomes. The new...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179137 Date: July 12, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Mini Grids : Bringing Low-Cost, Timely Electricity to the Rural Poor
    This story highlights the mini grids hold great promise for electrifying remote areas in regions such as Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, and help countries reach their energy access goals. Innovations and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166613 Date: July 7, 2016
  • Cooperation for dam safety in the Eastern Nile
    Dams provide critical services such as flood protection, irrigation, hydropower generation, and water supply for 156 million people in the Eastern Nile sub-basin spanning Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and South...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107141 Date: July 1, 2016
  • Strengthening investment planning to build climate resilience in the Niger Basin
    Climate change imposes stark challenges for the food-insecure Sahel and particularly for the Niger Basin's already highly vulnerable population of 112 million. Six of the nine basin countries are among...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107142 Date: July 1, 2016
  • Bringing citizen voices to Nile Basin Development
    The Nile River system is a vital economic lifeline across East Africa. Over 200 million people live in the basin of the world's longest river that stretches 6,695km. To ensure people's needs and risks...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107143 Date: July 1, 2016
  • Distribution automation : an opportunity to improve reliability and quality
    The control systems of today’s smart power-distribution grids have evolved significantly. Such systems improve system reliability by reducing the frequency and duration of outages. They also optimize asset...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107122 Date: July 1, 2016 Author: Nangia,Varun Ravi ; Oguah,Samuel Kwesi Ewuah ; Gaba,Kwawu Mensan
  • Managing the grids of the future in developing countries : recent World Bank support for SCADA/EMS and SCADA/DMS systems
    SCADA/EMS and SCADA/DMS systems ensure that power grids are efficient, resilient, and able to adapt to changes in generation, transmission, and distribution. Advancing technology is making SCADA systems...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107121 Date: July 1, 2016 Author: Nangia,Varun Ravi ; Oguah,Samuel Kwesi Ewuah ; Gaba,Kwawu Mensan
  • Collaborative management of the Zambezi River Basin
    The Zambezi River accounts for half of the installed hydropower capacity in southern Africa and supports subsistence agriculture and fisheries for three quarters of the Zambezi Basin's 47 million people....
    Type: Brief Report#: 107144 Date: July 1, 2016
  • Productivity dynamics in Turkey : evidence from firm-level data
    Turkey has witnessed a slowdown in economic growth since 2011, as private investment and productivity stagnated. This was in marked contrast to the previous decade, when total factor productivity growth...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107012 Date: July 1, 2016
  • Can utilities realize the benefits of advanced metering infrastructure? Lessons from the World Bank’s portfolio
    Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) provides significant benefits to utilities around the world. Although it is entering the mainstream, technical concerns, policy challenges, capacity, and will in...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107120 Date: July 1, 2016 Author: Nangia,Varun Ravi ; Oguah,Samuel Kwesi Ewuah ; Gaba,Kwawu Mensan
  • Measuring child development and early learning
    In response to convincing evidence on the benefits of supporting young children's cognitive and emotional development, investment in early childhood programming is increasing. Parents, policy makers, and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 108286 Date: July 1, 2016 Author: Devercelli,Amanda Epstein ; Bassett,Lucy Katherine ; Solano Rocha,Alexandra ; Raikes,Abbie ; Anderson,Kate ; Manuelyan Atinc,Tamar ; Britto,Pia Rebello ; Jimenez Nieto,Ana Lucia ; Lara,Fabiola
  • Smartening the grid in developing countries : emerging lessons from World Bank lending
    Since fiscal year 2010 the World Bank has supported 20 smart grid projects in 19 countries and all six Bank regions. Valued at 960 million dollars - a quarter of all Bank support for transmission and distribution...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107123 Date: July 1, 2016 Author: Nangia,Varun Ravi ; Oguah,Samuel Kwesi Ewuah ; Gaba,Kwawu Mensan
  • Whither oil prices?
    This report seeks to understand the factors behind the new normal to discern the evolution of world oil prices in the future, and their implications for the economies of the Middle East and North Africa...
    Type: Brief Report#: 107179 Date: July 1, 2016 Author: Mottaghi,Lili
  • The Global Tiger Initiative
    The Global Tiger Initiative (GTI) was launched in 2008 as a global alliance of governments, international organizations, civil society, the conservation and scientific communities and the private sector,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166354 Date: June 30, 2016
  • Measuring Child Development and Early Learning -English
    In response to convincing evidence on the benefits of supporting young children's cognitive and emotional development, investment in early childhood programming is increasing. Parents, policy makers, and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 169587 Date: June 30, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Solar Energy to Power India of the Future
    This story highlights the India’s plan to ramp up solar power generation to 100 GW by 2022 is among the largest in the world. It will help bring sustainable, clean, climate-friendly electricity to millions...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166499 Date: June 30, 2016
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