ENVIRONMENT • FINANCE AND FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT POWER MARKET STRUCTURE
CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Revisiting Policy Options By Maria Vagliasindi and John Besant-Jones
A Perspective on Barriers to Deployment
This study proposes a novel analytical approach for modeling market structures of the power sector, presenting evidence from statistical analysis and a sample of twenty case studies.
By Natalya Kulichenko and Eleanor Ereira
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) could provide a technological bridge to achieve near to midterm Greenhouse Gas emission reduction goals. The study analyzes regional legal and economic aspects of potential CCS deployment in developing countries, technology related financing needs and structures for possible project financing by development banks.
DIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT
August 2012. 352 pages. Stock no. C19556 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9556-1). US$34.95.
TRANSMISSION EXPANSION FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY SCALE-UP
WORLD BANK STUDIES
June 2012. 152 pages. Stock no. C19609 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9609-4). US$25.95.
Emerging Lessons and Recommendations
ENVIRONMENT
By Marcelino Madrigal and Steven Stoft
Scaling-up renewals requires expanding electricity grids. Policy makers, regulators, and utilities, are working together to ensure renewable energy goals are not held back by the lack of transmission. WORLD BANK STUDIES
June 2012. 166 pages. Stock no. C19598 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9598-1). US$25.95.
HOUSEHOLD ENERGY ACCESS FOR COOKING AND HEATING Lessons Learned and the Way Forward By Koffi EkouevI and Voravate Tuntivate
This paper is a review of the World Bank’s financed operations and selected interventions by other institutions on household energy access in an attempt to examine success and failure factors to inform the new generation of upcoming interventions
THE POVERTY AND WELFARE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE Quantifying the Effects, Identifying the Adaptation Strategies By Emmanuel Skoufias
Over the past century, the world has seen a sustained decline in the proportion of people living in poverty, but climate change could challenge further progress. The book offers country-specific studies with implications for low-income rural populations and governments’ risk management programs. DIRECTIONS IN DEVELOPMENT
August 2012. 184 pages. Stock no. C19611 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9611-7). US$26.
WORLD BANK STUDIES
June 2012. 90 pages. Stock no. C19604 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9604-9). US$25.95.
BESTSELLER
CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
NATURAL HAZARDS, UNNATURAL DISASTERS
Regulatory and Financial Incentives
The Economics of Effective Prevention
By Natalia Kulichenko and Jens Wirth
Concentrating solar thermal technologies have a clear potential for scaling up renewable energy at the utility level, thereby diversifying the generation portfolio mix, powering development, and mitigating climate change. The report analyzes current experience in designing and implementing regulatory frameworks supporting the technology
This book examines how to ensure that the preventive measures are worthwhile and effective, and how people can make decisions individually and collectively at different levels of government. November 2010. 276 pages. Stock no. C18050 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-8050-5). US$39.95
WORLD BANK STUDIES
FINANCE AND FINANCIAL SECTOR DEVELOPMENT
June 2012. 178 pages. Stock no. C19607 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9607-0). US$25.95.
DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF POLICY INSTRUMENTS TO PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF RENEWABLE ENERGY
THE LITTLE DATA BOOK ON FINANCIAL INCLUSION 2012
Emerging Experience in Selected Developing Countries By Gabriela Elizondo Azuela and Luiz Augusto Barroso
In the early 1990s, developing countries started to introduce different economic incentives to promote the deployment of renewable energy. This paper summarizes the results of a recent review of the emerging experience with the design and implementation of price and quota based instruments to promote renewable energy in
This pocket edition of the Global Financial Inclusion Index (“Global Findex”) database provides countrylevel indicators on the use of formal bank accounts, payments behavior, savings patterns, credit patterns, and insurance decisions.
April 2012. 176 pages. Stock no. C19509 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9509-7). US$15.
WORLD BANK STUDIES
June 2012. 78 pages. Stock no. C19602 (ISBN: 978-0-8213-9602-5). US$22.
JULY–DECEMBER 2012 CATALOG
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