The report Exploring Enabling Energy Frameworks for Battery Electric Buses in Rwanda assesses the capacity of Rwanda’s energy sector to support the growing shift toward electric mobility, with a focus...
The development objective of the Energy Access Scale Up Project for Senegal is to increase access to electricity services for households, enterprises, and critical public facilities in Senegal. The purpose...
The development objective of the Enhancing Sierra Leone Energy Access Project for Sierra Leone is to increase electricity access and improve the Project Implementing Entity’s operational performance. The...
The steel industry in Pakistan includes both large firms in the organized sector and smaller manufacturers operating in the informal economy; however, the largest 20 companies cater to 80 percent of local...
The development objectives of the Rural Electrification Project for Tajikistan are to: (i) provide electricity access to target settlements in Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and Khatlon regions...
Buildings in Pakistan account for over 43.7 percent of the country’s total energy use and represent a significant opportunity for energy efficiency and conservation. The high energy consumption in buildings...
The development objective of the Accelerating Sustainable and Clean Energy Access Transformation (ASCENT) : Regional Energy Access Financing Platform (REAF) Project for Eastern and Southern Africa is to...
Zambia aspires to be a prosperous middle-income country by 2030. To that end, the Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) has set out an aggressive economic diversification and industrialization agenda...
The Tunisian economy grew by 1.4 percent in 2024 after the zero growth in 2023 and it is diverging from its neighbors in North Africa, with a gross domestic product (GDP) below its pre-Covid level in 2024...
The development objective of the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project for Western and Central Africa is to increase electricity access for households and businesses using modern stand-alone solar...
Ratings for the Energy Sector Utility Reform Project (ESURP) for Sierra Leone were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality...
Prepaid electricity contracts lower enforcement costs but may burden consumers, particularly when market frictions are present. This paper presents the results of a randomized control trial where 2,000...