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This companion piece to the Fall 2022 ECA Economic Update provides an overview of the policy options available to countries to respond to the energy price shock and examines how this crisis could harness the clean energy transition to enhance collective energy security. The options to support...
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The Palestinian Territories face significant energy security challenges, already severe in Gaza, but also emerging in the West Bank. In Gaza, the available power supply only meets half the demand leading to rolling blackouts, alternating between 8 hours on and 8 hours off. Although the West Bank...
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last six months: Despite impressive progress towards sustainability, Poland's coal-dominated energy sector imposes heavy … global environmental benefits are accounted for. Poland is moving in the right direction on energy transition with its …
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security is a paramount objective. But how security can be achieved is subject to many uncertainties. Although Central Asia is … not as dependent on gas imports as other parts of the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, it has not been …
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of state power. Poland has made progress in improving the quality of its regulatory processes, but important challenges … Poland. As the main policy document for economic transformation, the SRD identifies shortcomings in the current development … World Bank could engage with the Government of Poland to further support the efforts to strengthen a sound regulatory …
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Russia's early developmen ... …
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Georgia is the only country in the CAC region that can access markets around the world through its own seaports and thus less dependent on China's BRI overland corridors for trade, investment and growth. Nevertheless, the Georgian government is investing in the one BRI corridor China, Europe...
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Armenia is a small land-locked mountainous country with relatively difficult access to regional and global markets. The borders with Azerbaijan in the east and with Turkey in the southwest and west are closed. Only the borders with Georgia in the north and Iran in the south are open for trade...
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Uzbekistan is a resource-rich country with a relatively young population of 33 million, the largest in Central Asia. It … connections and on how well they work. It can also potentially be the largest market in Central Asia and given its sizeable young …
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