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The International Comparison Program (ICP) is a worldwide statistical initiative led by the World Bank under the auspices of the United Nations Statistical Commission. It produces comparable price and volume measures of gross domestic product (GDP) and its expenditure aggregates across...
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This study was undertaken by the World Bank to inform the potential areas and means ofassistance to the Government of Uzbekistan in scaling up energy efficiency (EE) investmentsin residential, commercial, and public buildings, focusing on energy use and efficiency inspace heating. Considering...
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This report examines the system of residential electricity subsidies in Pakistan, and explores how it can be improved to better assist households within the existing political and budgetary constraints. The report is multi-disciplinary in nature, drawing on specially commissioned analysis of...
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The most cost-effective way to reduce both particulate and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is to couple switching from noncompliant solid fuel boilers to gas boilers, heat pumps, renewable energy (RE) heating systems such as biomass, wherever possible, and compliant solid fuel boilers, as...
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In the Kyrgyz Republic, access to reliable and affordable heating is critical given the cold and long winters in its mountainous regions. With central heating solutions such as district heating limited to the capital city Bishkek and other urban areas, over 80 percent of households resort to...
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The recent advances in battery technology and reductions in battery costs have brought battery energy storage systems (BESS) to the point of becoming increasingly cost-effective projects to serve a range of power sector interventions, especially when combined with PV and where diesel is the...
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The main objective of this report is to provide an intermediate step toward building more energy-efficient economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The present study complements the 2009 Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) report by providing a quantitative...
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to education in Belarus. Previous calculations of returns to education in Belarus were carried out for 1996-2001 (Pastore … studies for Belarus and recent estimates for Russia (Melianova and others 2020). The results from Russia are particularly … relevant given the institutional similarities between Russia and Belarus. The report is structured as follows. Section two …
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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Belarus has pursued a gradual transition path characterized by slow opening of … towards a new vision - a competitive, inclusive, and dynamic Belarus. At the core of this new vision is managing a transition … progress towards the twin goals in Belarus. The report is structured as follows: chapter one describes trends in poverty …
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equality is also a key pathway to ensure lasting poverty reductionand shared prosperity. This update to the '2013 Belarus …, Belarus' ranges better than many countries in terms of gender equality. Thecountry's gender gaps are much smaller than those … EconomicForum Global Gender Gap Index, largely due to its good results on education outcomes and theirreflection in the labor market-Belarus …
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