Documents & Reports

Study of the European and North American Market for the Desert Date Oil (English)

The report presents key findings of the European and North American DDO market analysis and is structured as follows: Section 1 - Introduction - presents the background and objectives, methodology and...

Suriname - Systematic Country Diagnostic (English)

Suriname is a small, natural resource-rich, densely forested, upper-middle-income country, which, though it has great economic potential, is undergoing challenging times. Substantial offshore oil deposits...

Guyana - Country Partnership Framework for the Period FY23-26 (English)

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Guyana lays out the strategic direction for the World Bank Group (WBG) program of support envisioned for the 2023-2026 period. The high-level outcomes (HLOs)...

Kenya - Petroleum Technical Assistance Project (English)

Ratings for the Petroleum Technical Assistance (TA) Project for Kenya were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was negligible...

The Impact of Gas Flaring on Child Health in Nigeria (English)

Burning off the gas coming out of oil wells—gas flaring—is a common practice in oil-producing developing countries. This economically wasteful and environmentally damaging process occurs because infrastructure...

Iran Economic Monitor, Spring 2022 : Managing Economic Uncertainties - With a Special Focus : Preparing for an Uncertain Water Future (English)

This Iran Economic Monitor (IEM) provides an update on key economic developments and policies as of Spring 2022. Iran’s economy continued its gradual recovery in 2021-2022 following the rebound in domestic...

Corporate Debt and Stock Returns : Evidence from U.S. Firms during the 2020 Oil Crash (English)

This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using an identification strategy through heteroskedasticity, exploiting the 2020 oil price crash. The results...

Directions for Reform : A Country Economic Memorandum for Recovery and Resilience in South Sudan (English)

South Sudan is at a crossroads in its recovery, reconstruction, and development. With weak institutions and recurring cycles of violence, South Sudan remains caught in a web of fragility and economic stagnation...

Cambodia Economic Update - Weathering the Oil Priceshock : Special Focus - Post-Pandemic Supply Chain Disruptions : Strategies to Reduce Logistics Costs (Khmer)

Cambodia is now weathering an oil price shock, just as the economy had started to recover amid a rollback of Coronavirus (COVID-19)-related restrictions. Negative impacts of the oil price shock are amplified...

Extractives Global Programmatic Support (EGPS) Trust Fund Annual Implementation Progress Report : Fiscal Year 2019 (English)

The Extractives Global Programmatic Support (EGPS) Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) is a financial facility managed by the World Bank that is focused on providing resource-rich, developing client countries...

Mapping the Oil and Gas Industry to the Sustainable Development Goals : An Atlas (English)

The oil and gas sector is an important global industry and, as this Atlas demonstrates, it can have both positive and negative impacts on a range of areas covered by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

Egypt - Household Natural Gas Connection Project : Environmental Assessment (Vol. 1 of 43) : Site-specific environmental and social impact assessment for Gerga city in Sohag governorate (English)

The development objective of Households Natural Gas Connection Project for Egypt aims for greater use of natural gas for domestic users and reduction of government subsidies of the energy sector (LPG)...

Analysis of the restructuring options of NJSC Naftogaz : Аналіз варіант івреструктуризації НАК Нафтогаз України (Ukrainian)

This report is divided into two parts: part one, unbundling options for gas transmission; and part two, unbundling options for gas storage. This work supports the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of...

Thailand - Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) Phaseout Project : procurement plan (English)

Adapting to stay competitive : Cambodia economic update (Khmer)

Robust GDP growth continues, and real growth for 2014 has been revised up by the authorities to 7.1 percent from an earlier estimate of 7.0 percent. Strong domestic demand, boosted by a construction boom...

Addressing the consequences of Iraq's difficult legacy (Arabic)

Iraq has been a nexus of conflict and fragility since the early 1980's, and has experienced multiple types of conflict: insurgency, international war, sectarian strife, persistent terrorism, regional fragmentation...

Egypt - Household Natural Gas Connection Project : chair summary (English)

Announcement of Building Capacity to Manage Ghana's Oil - World Bank Assists with Thirty-Eight Million US Dollars on December 20, 2010 (English)

This press release announces that the World Bank Board on December 20, 2010, approved a credit of thirty-eight million US dollars to the government of Ghana for implementation of an Oil and Gas Capacity...

Le Cadre du Groupe de la Banque Mondiale et la Stratégie d'IFC pour l'Engagement dans le Secteur de Palme (French)

Le Cadre reflète la conclusion du GBM selon laquelle, à la lumière de la croissance continue de la demande en huile de palme et de ses avantages comparatifs par rapport à d’autres es végétales, le potentiel...

Announcement of Indonesia’s Tree Crops to be Developed with One Hundred Fifty-Four Million Six Hundred Thousand Dollars World Bank Loan on January 27, 1983 (English)

This news release, dated January 27, 1983, announces tree crops, including rubber and oil palm, will be further developed in Indonesia with the support of a 154.6 million dollars loan from the International...