Policy makers are under increasing pressure to deliver policies that not only foster employment and growth but also are environmentally sustainable. Green growth seeks for even more ambitious results where...
This study focuses on the human cost by analyzing the prevalence of diarrhea and acute respiratory infections (ARI), as well as under nutrition, in children under the age of three. Malaria, an important...
This note provides guidance to policy makers, the World Bank task managers and mining, environmental, and social specialists for undertaking strategic environmental and social assessment (SESA) to support...
Recent analyses of the global aid architecture have pointed to the proliferation of donor-funded aid projects in developing countries. In the past four decades, the number of donors per recipient country...
On March 31, 2005, the Board of the World Bank approved the Bank's participation in a US$1.45 billion financing arrangement for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydroelectric project in the Lao People's Democratic...
The task managers and sector specialists face the challenge of incorporating complex environmental and social considerations into forest sector reforms. Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is one...