In Kenya, where only 25 percent of the population has access to electricity, the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the World Bank Group are supporting the government’s Least Cost Power Development Plan,...
This series showcases how the Multilateral Development Banks’ collaboration supports the development and implementation of infrastructure investment. This support comes in the form of public sector loans,...
Type: BriefReport#: 104847Date: April 6, 2016Author:
Ghannam,Nadine Shamounki
In the past decade, Colombia has seen remarkable economic growth. Per capita incomes have more than doubled to 2,424 dollars per year in 2014, foreign direct investment are ten times what they were and...
Type: BriefReport#: 104848Date: April 6, 2016Author:
Ghannam,Nadine Shamounki
In 2009, the Government of Cameroon awarded AES Dibamba Power Development Corporation (DPDC) the right to develop an 86-MW thermal energy Independent Power Plant (IPP). The Dibamba Project provides Cameroon...
Type: BriefReport#: 104846Date: April 6, 2016Author:
Ghannam,Nadine Shamounki ;
Phillips,John
Jordan’s power sector is highly dependent on imported fuel. With plentiful wind and solar resources, Jordan has been seeking ways to harness these resources to reduce wholesale prices, meet growing demand...
Despite Brazil’s size and influence—it is the sixthlargest economy in the world and is predicted tobecome the fourth largest by 2050—the country facesa substantial infrastructure gap that threatens to...
Type: BriefReport#: 104845Date: April 6, 2016Author:
Ghannam,Nadine Shamounki ;
Ferriter,John P.
The Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation Project (ISMEP) helped strengthen critical public facilities to better withstand the shock of earthquakes and supported measures for enforcing building codes and land...
Type: BriefReport#: 180926Date: April 4, 2016Author:
World Bank
Yemen is the lowest-income country in the MENA region. In June 2014, armed conflict between the government and militias started to spread across much of Yemen and escalated in March 2015. It has caused...
Following large-scale demonstrations in Kyiv in late 2013, Ukraine began to experience a continuing period of instability and insecurity. The situation progressively worsened, and, in the spring of 2014,...
The Syrian crisis has devastated the country and set it back decades in terms of development. The Syria Information and Research Initiative (SIRI) was designed to respond to the main challenges represented...
Mongolia’s budget deficit is widening fast, with a large revenue shortfall. Early budget spending control measures are needed to contain rising expenditures, as weak commodity prices would continue to...
Type: BriefReport#: 114966Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Lee,Taehyun ;
Batsuuri,Davaadalai ;
Shiilegmaa,Altantsetseg ;
Verghis,Mathew A.
This report presents tabular information on following: umbrella facility for gender equality (UFGE) grant list for Africa, East Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean,...
Governments and other homeland institutions need to recognize the value of returnees’ enhanced human capital and remove barriers to their employment in positions that allow them to contribute their talents...
Type: BriefReport#: 193107Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Duncan, Howard
Nearly fifteen million people have been affected by the violence of Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram (BH), and the resulting military operations in the North-East...
The growth rate of remittances to developing countries is estimated to have fallen from 3.2 percent in 2014 to 0.4 percent in 2015. The slowdown in grow is largely due to economic weakness in the major...
The high cost of extending Internet service beyond urban areas and the relatively low number of potential subscribers has combined to stall the expansion of this enabling technology in much of the developing...
Type: BriefReport#: 107706Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Foch,Arthur Denis Pascal
The integration of migrants is an important and desirable step in the immigration process. Both countries of origin and destination can gain from greater integration and diaspora engagement. Although rarely...
Type: BriefReport#: 193106Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Weinar, Agnieszka
Investments in integration are of mutual benefit to the host society and to the migrant. As we see growing numbers of migrants returning to their homelands and leading transnational lives, we see that...
Type: BriefReport#: 193104Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Duncan, Howard
The World Bank Group is shifting from lending to mobilizing third-party money by leveraging its financial and advisory resources, with the goal of moving from billions to trillions of dollars in development...
Type: BriefReport#: 106020Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Narayanaswamy,Meera ;
Pace,Jordan Townswick
Social safety nets and the broader social protection are widely recognized as one of the instruments to build resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations, and ultimately to reduce poverty....
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