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 Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ranks among the world’s largest producing countries of minerals needed for the energy transition. This report provides an overview of the global cobalt market, and...
The use of hydrogen as a fuel source dates back nearly 200 years, when it powered nineteenth-century air balloon travel. Later, it became important as a chemical feedstock. Today, it holds potential as...
This report was commissioned with the aim to assist the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) in its efforts to develop the mining sector. Thus, the report has been produced in close cooperation with staff at the...
On May 22, 2007, the World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved an International Development Association (IDA) credit of US8 million dollars to support the Government of Madagascar’s Mineral...
This press release announces that on September 19, 1994, the International Finance Corporation approved a US10-million-dollar loan for a tissue paper mill in Jordan. The International Finance Corporation...
The paper presents a subsectoral review of industrial minerals as a significant commodity category within the extractive sector. Industrial minerals are a diverse group of commodities that are essential...
The paper addresses the principal issues generally associated with small-scale mining (SSM) in less developed economies and summarizes constraints and barriers that adversely affect SSM establishment and...
This news release, dated January 15, 1979, announces the World Bank approved two loans totaling 110 million dollars to help finance the implementation of two development projects in Romania - electric...
This news release, dated January 8, 1979, announces the World Bank and International Development Association (IDA) are each providing 30 million dollars to Tanzania to help finance the establishment of...
This news release, dated November 30, 1978, announces the expansion and modernization of the Craiova chemical complex in southwestern Romania will be assisted by a 40 million dollars loan from the World...
This news release, dated November 22, 1978, announces the World Bank approved a 7.6 million dollars loan to help finance a rubber project in the Ivory Coast.
This news release, dated June 30, 1978, announces over four thousand jobs will be created by a textile mill project in Tanzania to be assisted by a loan and a credit totaling 45 million dollars from the...
This press release announces on July 24, 1975, that the World Bank has approved a loan of sixty million Us dollars to Companhia Siderurgica Paulista (COSIPA),one of Brazil's major government-owned steel...
This press release announces on June 10, 1975, that the World Bank has approved a loan of ninety-five million US Dollars to Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) of Brazil, to help finance the expansion...
This press release announces on June 1, 1972, that the World Bank has approved a loan of sixty-four million US dollars equivalent to Companhia Siderurgica Paulists (COSIPA), one of Brazil's three major...