This press release announces that the
way the world tries to solve its economic problems needs to
be rethought amid today’s global crisis, including turning
the group...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 163551Date: October 6, 2008
These remarks were delivered by Robert
B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, at the Peterson
Institute for International Economics, in Washington, DC, in
October...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124790Date: October 6, 2008Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
In fiscal 2008, the World Bank Group
(WBG) committed S$2.7 billion to the promotion of low carbon
energy in the form of renewable energy (RE) and energy
efficiency (EE)...
Type: BriefReport#: 76069Date: October 2, 2008Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
This press release announces that the
World Bank Board of Directors approved a loan for three
hundred million seventy-five hundred thousand US dollars to
assist the...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164543Date: October 2, 2008
This press release announces that
between one fourth and one half of income inequality
observed among Latin America and the Caribbean adults is due
to personal circumstances...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164592Date: October 2, 2008
This press release announces on October
2, 2008, that the World Bank Group declared an eighty-seven
per cent increase in funding for renewable energy (RE) and
energy...
Type: AnnouncementReport#: 164749Date: October 2, 2008
In 2005, seven countries of South East
Europe instituted the Energy Community of South East Europe
(ECSEE) in an effort to regionally integrate the energy
market and...
Hydropower is a renewable low carbon
source of electricity and an important component in reducing
greenhouse gas emissions from energy production. The
Prototype Carbon...
This economic update highlights the
following in its overview: growth in Aceh's non-oil and
gas economy slowed in the first half of 2008 as the
reconstruction effort...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 46311Date: October 1, 2008
This report is the fifth in a series of
country portfolio evaluations produced by the Evaluation
Office of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Using the
country as...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57537Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Risby, Lee Alexander
The scale of investment needed to slow
greenhouse gas emissions is larger than governments can
manage through transfers. Therefore, climate change policies
rely heavily...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4761Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Larson, Donald F. ;
Ambrosi, Philippe ;
Dinar, Ariel ;
Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur ;
Entler, Rebecca
The Indian power sector suffers from
considerable supply shortages. The Government of India (GoI)
is addressing this problem both through a major new build
program (including...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 70437Date: October 1, 2008
An update of the World Bank Group's
privatization database shows that in 2007 privatizations in
developing countries amounted to US$133 billion a record in
nominal terms....
Type: ViewpointReport#: 49115Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Kikeri,Sunita ;
Phipps-Ebeler,Verena
All European Union Ten (EU10) countries
and Croatia have ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which came
into force in 2005. In addition to the commitments to the
Kyoto Protocol,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 46690Date: October 1, 2008
This note states that in 2007 investment
commitments to energy projects with private participation
almost doubled in real terms compared with the activity in
2006, according...
Type: BriefReport#: 47229Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Izaguirre, Ada Karina ; Mirzagalyamova, Alfiya
At the request of the World Bank, the
Center for Energy Economics at the University of
Texas-Austin (CEE) undertook a broad survey of national oil
companies (NOCs) to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47115Date: October 1, 2008
South Africa's participation in the
Global Environment Facility (GEF) started after the GEF
pilot phase, when South Africa submitted its instrument of
participation...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 57540Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Volonte, Claudio
The overall purpose of a regulatory
review of power purchase agreements (PPAs) is to ensure that
the terms of the PPAs are "fair and balanced" to
all parties who will...
Type: Energy StudyReport#: 46334Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Besant Jones, John; Tenenbaum, Bernard; Tallapra
Many countries have been affected by
food and oil price shocks. Rising energy costs have
manifested themselves through higher prices of gas at the
pump and through price...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS4741Date: October 1, 2008Author:
Parra Osorio,Juan Carlos ;
Wodon,Quentin T.
At the request of the World Bank, the
Center for Energy Economics at the University of
Texas-Austin (CEE) undertook a broad survey of national oil
companies (NOCs) to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 47115Date: October 1, 2008
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