The systematic country diagnostic (SCD)
is designed to identify the most critical binding
constraints and opportunities facing Indonesia in ending
extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity. In line with
the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) new country engagement model,
the findings of the SCD will provide inputs for the
preparation of the country partnership framework (CPF),
which will outline the WBG’s engagement with Indonesia to

Maldives is an island nation scattered
in the Indian Ocean comprising 1,190 small coral islands of
which 190 are inhabited by a local population of 341,000.
Maldives’ unique archipelagic coral island provides the
country with an extremely rich and diverse marine ecological
system. With more territorial sea than land, marine
resources have played a vital role shaping the contours of
economic development, with nature-based tourism being the

Environmental and social responsibility
is becoming more and more important in today’s global
economy. There are thousands of environmental and social
codes and standards in the world today. The codes and
standards define the rules and the objectives. But the
challenge is in the implementation. An environmental and
social management system (ESMS) helps companies to integrate
the rules and objectives into core business operations,

Le présent décret organise la répartition des services publics entre la Primatures et les Départements ministériels, entre autres le Ministère du développement rural; le Ministère des domaines de l'Etat et des affaires foncières; le Ministère de l'environnement, de l'assainissement et du développement durable; le Ministère du commerce et de l'industrie; le Ministère de l'aménagement du territoire et de la population; le Ministère de l'énergie et de l'eau; et le Ministère des mines.Le Ministère du développement rural comprend les Services centraux (Direction nationale du Génie rural; Directi

Since the cessation of conflict,
Mozambique has achieved impressive economic growth and has
become an example of successful post conflict reconstruction
and development, moving from a one-party state to a
multiparty democracy and from a socialist, command economy
to a market-based economy. Mozambique’s development has been
strongly supported by foreign aid, and since 2001 average
annual disbursements of official development assistance

This report evaluates International
Development Association (IDA) support to Nepal during
2003-2008. IDA’s overarching goal during this period was to
support the Government’s efforts to reduce poverty and
improve human well-being. IDA focused on helping to foster
broad-based growth, social development, social inclusion,
and good governance. The evaluation highlights the need to
introduce greater realism into the country assistance

This country program evaluation (CPE)
assesses the outcomes of the World Bank Group (WBG) program
in Timor-Leste during the review period (2000 to 2010). The
WBG’s strategy during this period was to support the
government of the nascent country in three broad areas: (a)
poverty alleviation and the provision of basic social
services, including health and education; (b) development of
state institutions, including creating good governance and

La violencia política entre el Estado peruano y un grupo levantado en armas (PCP-Sendero Luminoso) obligó a los habitantes de Viscatámpata a un desplazamiento forzado para salvar sus vidas. El caso relata la historia del retorno y recuperación de la tierra abandonada en la provincia de Huanta, departamento de Ayacucho, Perú.

For more than a decade, Africa has enjoyed a mineral boom. is the growth mostly happening in isolated places, sectors and periods? The approach adopted in this study is two-pronged. First, through case studies, including the results of fieldwork, mining’s impacts are examined in a country-specific context for each of three countries, Ghana, Mali, and Tanzania; and second, a statistical analysis is used to test whether the indicators of welfare improve with proximity to a mine.

About 70 percent of electricity users in
Southeastern Turkey are not used to paying for electricity,
partially due to the protracted situation of conflict and
lack of trust between citizens and the government in the
region. Historic tension throughout the 1990s caused an
inability for the government to invest in electricity
infrastructure and has resulted in low service quality. A
large portion of consumers did not pay for electricity use

A World Bank series of projects to
improve aviation operations in four Pacific island countries
is demonstrating that the concept of ‘green design’ goes
beyond energy efficiency to the wider goal of environmental
sustainability. The aviation program is reducing impacts on
a broad spectrum of concerns, including solid waste
management and water quality, by designing with the full
lifecycle of all project assets in mind.

This Decree of the Ministry of Environment, which is composed of 14 articles and six Annexes, lays down requirements for the landfill of waste and temporary storage of metallic mercury.