Documents & Reports

Safety Aspects of Hydrogen and its Main Derivatives: A Literature Review for Policy Makers (English)

This Live Wire focuses on safety concerns associated with hydrogen and its main derivatives: ammonia and methanol. After an exhaustive review of the literature and measures on hydrogen safety, the study...

Cinq Approches Publiques pour Promouvoir les mini-réseaux Solaires Hybrides en Afrique : Qu’est-ce qui Fonctionne, Quand et Pourquoi ? (French)

Différentes approches pour le développement de mini-réseaux solaires hybrides existent dans le monde, qu’elles soient menées par le secteur privé ou par l’État. Nous examinons ici cinq de ces approches...

Five Government Approaches to Promote Solar Hybrid Mini grids in Africa: Which Works When— and Why? (English)

Different private sector-led and government-led approaches to the development of solar hybrid mini grids are found around the world. Five approaches used in Africa are reviewed here. Each works better...

Decarbonizing Ammonia and Nitrogen Fertilizers with Clean Hydrogen (English)

Synthetic fertilizers are essential to sustaining the world’s population, but their production is responsible for 1.8–2.4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Clean hydrogen holds growing potential...

Mobilizing Commercial Financing to Scale Up Energy Efficiency in the Public Sector (English)

Scaling up energy efficiency is critical to the energy transition—and the public sector is a good place to start. Programs in public buildings, in particular, can introduce new models and thus help shape...

Improving the Quality of Survey Estimates from Longitudinal Studies : An Application to LSMS Panel Surveys (English)

Longitudinal surveys are an invaluable source for analyzing the current state of and changes in human populations over time. However, maintaining the accuracy of estimates from a panel sample becomes more...

Coping or Hoping ? Livelihood Diversification and Food Insecurity in the COVID-19 Pandemic (English)

This paper examines the impact of livelihood diversification on food insecurity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses household panel data from Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria in which the first...

The Mismeasure of Weather : Using Remotely Sensed Earth Observation Data in Economic Contexts (English)

The availability of weather data from remotely sensed Earth observation data has reduced the cost of including weather variables in econometric models. Weather variables are common instrumental variables...

A Longitudinal Cross-Country Dataset on Agricultural Productivity and Welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa (English)

Since 2008, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) program has supported the collection of nationally representative, longitudinal, multi-topic...

Yielding Insights : Machine Learning-Driven Imputations to Filling Agricultural Data Gaps (English)

This paper addresses the challenge of missing crop yield data in large-scale agricultural surveys, where crop-cutting, the most accurate method for yield measurement, is often limited due to cost constraints...

Measuring Poverty in Tanzania : Comparison of Diary and Recall Approaches to Food Consumption Data Collection (English)

Consumption data from household surveys continue to be the main source for poverty and inequality statistics in low- and middle-income countries. Although recent research has demonstrated that the choice...

Imputing Poverty Indicators without Consumption Data : An Exploratory Analysis (English)

Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated, or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges...

Profitability of Fertilizer Use in Sub-Saharan Africa : Evidence from Malawi (English)

This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to estimate...

Should Farm Input Subsidy Programs Target Poor or Non-Poor Farmers ? Evidence from Malawi’s Farm Input Subsidy Program (English)

This paper addresses the question of whether farm input subsidy programs should be targeted at non-poor farmers instead of poor farmers, using a two-wave, nationally representative panel data from Malawi...

包括的なビジネスのケーススタディ: 心臓血管財団 (FCV) - ファクトシート (Japanese)

This brief talks about the performance of Fundación Cardiovascular (FCV) in Colombia, financed by IFC. Established in 1986 as a nonprofit foundation by a group of cardiologists to address the more than...

ジャイン灌漑システム株式会社 : ファクトシート (Japanese)

This brief talks about the performance of Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd. (JISL) in India financed by IFC. JISL, an integrated agribusiness, is the largest manufacturer of micro irrigation systems (MIS) in...

上海富路商業サービス有限公司 (F-Road) : ファクトシート (Japanese)

プロカフェコール S.A : ファクトシート (Japanese)

ECOM アグロインダストリアル株式会社 : ファクトシート (Japanese)

This brief talks about the performance of Ecom Agroindustrial Corporation Ltd. (ECOM) financed by IFC. ECOM is a global commodity trading and processing company specializing in coffee, cotton, cocoa, and...

Des Mini-Réseaux pour les Clients mal Desservis par le Réseau Principal (French)

Can mini grids help to solve the problem of poorly served main grid connected communities? A mini grid is an electricity generation and distribution network that supplies electricity to a localized group...