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  • Water for Shared Prosperity - Executive Summary (anglais)

    In 1997, thousands of people gathered in Marrakesh, Morocco, for the first World Water Forum to address an urgent problem: the global water crisis. The meeting resulted in the Marrakech Declaration, a...

    Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 190289 Date du document: 16 mai 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zhang,Fan,Borja-Vega,Christian

  • Does Africa Need More Roads in the Digital Age ? Evidence of Complementarities in Infrastructure (anglais)

    This paper investigates whether the expansion of fast internet networks complements or substitutes for the development of roads to improve market access and create more and higher-skilled jobs in Africa...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10730 Date du document: 21 mars 2024 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria,Mongoue,Arcady,Pongou,Roland,Zhang,Fan


  • Roads, Electricity, and Jobs: Evidence of Infrastructure Complementarity in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)

    Evidence for road expansion and electrification as drivers of job creation is limited and mixed, with most studies having considered either one or the other, and only in isolation. This paper estimates...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9976 Date du document: 21 mars 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Abbasi ,Mansoureh,Lebrand,Mathilde Sylvie Maria,Mongoue,Arcady Bluette,Pongou,Roland,Zhang,Fan

  • The Global Diffusion of Electric Vehicles : Lessons from the First Decade (anglais)

    Electrifying the transportation sector is key to reaching the goal of carbon neutrality. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the diffusion of passenger electric vehicles based on detailed data...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9882 Date du document: 14 décembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Li,Shanjun,Wang,Binglin,Yang,Muxi,Zhang,Fan


  • Transportation and the Environment : A Review of Empirical Literature (anglais)

    In urban areas around the world, increasing motorization and growing travel demand make the urban transportation sector an ever-greater contributor to local air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9421 Date du document: 5 octobre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Li,Shanjun,Xing,Jianwei,Yang,Lin,Zhang,Fan

  • The Role of Government in the Market for Electric Vehicles : Evidence from China (anglais)

    To promote the development and diffusion of electric vehicles, central and local governments in many countries have adopted various incentive programs. This study examines the policy and market drivers...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9359 Date du document: 13 août 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Li,Shanjun,Zhu,Xianglei,Ma,Yiding,Zhang,Fan,Zhou,Hui

  • Electrification and Women's Empowerment : Evidence from Rural India (anglais)

    Electrification has been shown to accelerate opportunities for women by moving them into more productive activities, but whether improvements in economic outcomes also change gender norms and practices...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8796 Date du document: 28 mars 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Samad,Hussain A.,Zhang,Fan

  • In the Dark : How Much Do Power Sector Distortions Cost South Asia? (anglais)

    Electricity shortages are among the biggest barriers to South Asia’s development. Some 255 million people—more than a quarter of the world’s off-grid population—live in South Asia, and millions of households...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 132854 Date du document: 11 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zhang,Fan

  • Bangladesh Development Update : Powering the Economy Efficiently (anglais)

    Strong growth, driven by consumption and public investment, has continued. Macroeconomic stability is strained. Inflation has picked up, driven by food price increases initially and by non-food inflation...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 130459 Date du document: 1 octobre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hussain,Zahid,Zhang,Fan,Khan,Nazmus Sadat,Alam,Afroza,Shahriar,Shegufta

  • Electrification and Household Welfare : Evidence from Pakistan (anglais)

    As many as 50 million people in Pakistan may still live without connection to the electric grid. Pakistan also has some of the world's worst power outages. Using data from a nationally representative two-period...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8582 Date du document: 12 septembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Samad,Hussain A.,Zhang,Fan


  • The impact of electricity shortages on firm productivity : evidence from Pakistan (anglais)

    Power shortages present a significant challenge to manufacturers, who rely on power as a key input to production. In Pakistan, power shortages are commonplace, but empirical evidence on the impact of shortages...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8130 Date du document: 29 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Grainger,Corbett Alden,Zhang,Fan


  • Heterogeneous effects of rural electrification: evidence from Bangladesh (anglais)

    Achieving universal access to electricity is one of the most important energy policy goals set by governments in the developing world. The recent empirical literature, however, paints a mixed picture about...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8102 Date du document: 12 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Samad,Hussain A.,Zhang,Fan


  • Energy prices and international trade : incorporating input-output linkages (anglais)

    This paper examines the effect of energy costs on industry export competitiveness. Most studies in the literature use direct energy consumption (energy consumption at the final stage of production) and...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8076 Date du document: 30 mai 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chan,H. Ron,Manderson,Edward John Matlock,Zhang,Fan

  • Benefits of electrification and the role of reliability : evidence from India (anglais)

    This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household panel survey data for 2005 and 2012. Analysis based on a propensity-score-weighted fixed-effects...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7889 Date du document: 14 novembre 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Samad,Hussain A.,Zhang,Fan

  • Belarus heat tariff reform and social impact mitigation (anglais)

    The government of Belarus (GoB) plans to increase district heating (DH) tariffs to cost-recovery levels and gradually phase out subsidies, replacing them with social assistance programs. The purpose of...

    Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 99456 Date du document: 1 septembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Zhang,Fan,Hankinson,Denzel J.