Technical Publications

Cooling is one of the wonders of the moder n age. However, for hundreds of millions of people living in the hottest climates, the impact of not having access to modern cooling services is profound. Every year, millions of people die due to the absence of cooling that could help address hunger and malnutrition, preserve the efficacy of vaccines, and alleviate the worst of deadly heat waves. Cooling access can also help increase farmer incomes and lift people out of poverty by increasing the sales value of their produce when it meets the market.

This note analyzes trends in investment commitments in infrastructure projects with private sector participation (hereafter referred to as PPI investments) in countries eligible for support from the International Development Association (hereafter—called IDA countries2) during the five-year period from 2013 to 2017. The note analyzes investment commitments at the time of financial closure in energy, transport, water, and information and communication technologies (ICT) backbone projects serving the public in IDA countries.

The Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals 2018 is a visual guide to the trends, challenges and measurement issues related to each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Atlas features maps and data visualizations, primarily drawn from World Development Indicators (WDI) - the World Bank’s compilation of internationally comparable statistics about global development and the quality of people’s lives.

At the global level in 2015 countries set in motion the most far reaching and ambitious development agenda of our time, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In

This publication provides information on the PPP business environment in nine ADB developing member countries to help public sector policy makers improve private sector participation in infrastructure projects.

This report investigates barriers and solutions to scale for market-based approaches offering cleaner energy access to low-income customers in developing countries.

The objective is not to provide an exhaustive view across all technologies and geographies, but rather to learn from a selection of the most innovative and successful practitioners, representing solutions with high potential and innovation dynamics: solar lanterns, solar home systems, clean energy microgrids, solar irrigation pumps, and improved cook stoves.

This schedule embodies a classification of goods for import and goods for export for both tariff and statistical purposes of Palau.  For the purposes of classification of all imported goods an international system has been used, designated the Harmonized System Nomenclature (hereafter referred to as the HS) published by the World Customs Organisation in Brussels. In this Schedule, the HS is fully reproduced to the (6) digit level. 3. A split in the tariff item at the seventh and/or eighth digit level represents additions and extensions at the national level.

Climate change is receiving considerable and increasing attention worldwide as one of the key challenges for the century ahead. In 2007 several new reports—including the

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This wind pre-feasibility study is part of the support provided by the project - Coping with Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region (CCCPIR) \ to the Government of Tonga, through the Energy Division of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change.

CCCPIR aims to build and strengthen the capacities of Pacific member countries and regional organizations to adapt to and mitigate, climate change impacts. The programme started in January 2009 and will end in December 2015.