Early Lessons from the East Asia and Pacific Clean Stove Initiative Initial lessons from the East Asia and Pacific (EAP) Clean Stove Initiative (CSI) confirm the need for country-specific roadmaps, strong...
Type: BriefReport#: 105270Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Zhang,Yabei ;
Adams,Norma
This paper provides a brief overview of the postal network reform in Azerbaijan and transformation of Azerpost, Azerbaijan’s state postal operator, into an efficient platform for basic financial services...
Type: BriefReport#: 104793Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Prygozhyna,Anzhela ;
Boon,Johannes P.
This policy note focuses on potential actions that can be taken in three sectors where climate-related impacts on poverty are especially important, agriculture and ecosystems, disaster risk management,...
Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of certain shocks, including crop failures and spikes in food prices, natural disasters such as storms and floods, and climate-sensitive diseases...
Located in the Pacific Ring of Fire and at the center of the Pacific cyclone belt, Vanuatu is exposed to one of the world’s highest levels of natural disaster risk. Following the destructive Tropical Cyclone...
Type: BriefReport#: 103269Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
Development of power transmission networks requires long lead times and substantial capital. Optimization of investment is especially critical in fast-growing economies such as India’s, where there are...
Type: BriefReport#: 106750Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Gupta,Amol ;
Saraswat,Kavita
The rapid diffusion of increasingly sophisticated mobile devices, particularly in the developing world, has created many new opportunities for online interactions between government, businesses, and civil...
This brief explains about What is the role that connections can play in helping green technology entrepreneurs innovate and scale up in developing countries, so as to inform the design of new public sector...
Type: BriefReport#: 115290Date: January 1, 2016Author:
White,Justine
This policy note (and the report it is based on) brings together these two objectives, ending poverty and stabilizing climate change, and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together....
The earthquake risk in Nicaragua is more significant than the hurricane risk. Annual average loss (AAL) from earthquakes is United States (U.S.) 89 million dollars (0.75 percent of gross domestic product...
The sustainability and poverty-reducing impacts of agriculture water development and water management projects are predicated upon inclusive institutions for infrastructure operation and maintenance and...
Type: BriefReport#: 103538Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Van Koppen,Barbara C.M. ;
Kuriakose,Anne T.
In the wake of the peace accord, the province experienced demands for a fast recovery of the economy and restored freedom of movement. This resulted in widespread illegal logging. The deforestation rate...
This note explores the role of legal institutions in influencing women’s employment in private firms in developing countries. Both a holistic and specific approach to legal institutions is adopted. Regarding...
Type: BriefReport#: 111250Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Islam,Asif Mohammed
The State Government of Bahia had been facing a number of challenges in delivering public health services, including rapidly growing demand for imaging tests, low bed turnovers and overcrowded hospitals....
Turkey’s economy expanded rapidly in the 2000s, and per capita income is now close to World Bank’s high income threshold of U$12,736. While part of this economic growth was attributable to human and physical...
This brief is part of a series of outputs under the analytical work “Forever Young? Social Policies for a Changing Population in Southern Africa”. This Outputs include: Forever Young? South Africa Country...
This guidance note talks about Rooftop solar in Maldives. The Maldives Ministry of Environment and Energy, with support from the World Bank and from the Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP), a funding...
Type: BriefReport#: 103935Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Kohli,Sandeep ;
Braud,Arnaud
The Australian Government commissioned the independent Financial System Inquiry or ‘Murray Review’ to provide recommendations to improve private pensions (superannuation), as well as financial system resilience,...
Type: BriefReport#: 104792Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Price,William Joseph
The Francophone Africa education results monitor was developed as an output of the regional technical assistance (TA) for quality assessment in Francophone Africa program for the analysis of education...
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) benchmarking tool to assess achievement and application of key knowledge and skills...
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