Private Participation in the Power Sector in Europe and Central Asia

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Private Participation in the Power Sector in Europe and Central Asia: Lessons from the Last Decade (World Bank Working Papers)

This study reviews the electricity sector experiences during the 1990s of four countries that are candidates for EU accession (Hungary, Lithuania, Poland and Turkey) and six former states of the Soviet Union (Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Ukraine). Lessons are drawn from these case studies as well as from Russia, Romania, Armenia, and Albania. The study provides four key lessons, relating to: (a) the overriding need for comprehensive commercialization of the sec

Supporting Growth and Transformation in Ethiopia

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Secondary Education in Ethiopia: Supporting Growth and Transformation (World Bank Studies)

Becoming a middle-income economy is an explicit development goal of many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book assesses the implications of that goal for secondary education in Ethiopia. It shows that a rapid expansion of secondary education will be needed to support the country’s transition from a low-income economy with substantial subsistence agriculture to a lower-middle-income economy with an increased share of commercial agriculture, as well as growing industrial and service sectors