The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

Report that contains energy efficiency and Non-revenue-Water target data in Shenyang, Anshan, Fushun, Fuxin and Gaizhou water companies in Liaoning Province, China.

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

Data repository for measurements from a wind measurement station with a lidar in Bangladesh. Data will be uploaded in batches, on a monthly basis, and will transmit daily reports on 1 minute average values. Please refer to the country...

Replication Data for Adam Storeygard; Farther on down the Road: Transport Costs, Trade and Urban Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, The Review of Economic Studies, Volume 83, Issue 3, 1 July 2016, Pages 1263–1295,...

The transmission network map is obtained from the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database version 06.Feb.2017. The level of completeness varies across different areas due to poor satellite/aerial imagery and/or resolution in some areas, and due to...

The MTF survey is a global baseline survey on household access to electricity and clean cooking, which goes beyond the binary approach to look at access as a spectrum of service levels experienced by households. Resources included are...

Megacity Dhaka encounters various kinds of natural disasters quite frequently owing to its geographical location and a number of other physical and environmental conditions including low topography, land characteristics, multiplicity of...

Ground measured solar irradiation and meteorological data.

The MTF survey is a global baseline survey on household access to electricity and clean cooking, which goes beyond the binary approach to look at access as a spectrum of service levels experienced by households. Resources included are...

For the urban and peri-urban area of Dakar, two main flood scenarios have to be considered: a. Fluvial floods b. Floods triggered by rainfall stagnation after heavy local cloudbursts Scenario a.) and b.) may occur at the same time. The...

Land Use / Land Cover (LULC) information product over Dhaka (Bangladesh) contains spatial explicit information about the different land covers / uses for current (2017) and past (2006) dates. The level of detail for the classification...

This High Resolution High Voltage Grid Map based on Machine Learning dataset was prepared by Development Seed under contract to The World Bank. This project was funded and supported by the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program...

Data repository for measurements from 10 wind masts in Nepal. Data will be uploaded in batches, on a monthly basis, and will transmit daily reports for wind speed, wind direction, air pressure, relative humidity and temperature. Please...

Data collected and prepared for a project of the World Bank Group Power Transmission Project in Azerbaijan. This data is based on a digitized PDF map, and so is intended as a schematic of rough locations of the power network. It is not...

The authors argue that one reason why emerging economies borrow short term is that it is cheaper than borrowing long term. This is especially the case during crises, as during these episodes the relative cost of long-term borrowing...

Replication data for Henderson, J. Vernon, Adam Storeygard, and Uwe Deichmann. "Has climate change driven urbanization in Africa?." Journal of Development Economics 124 (2017): 60-82. Data include climate variables, conflict events,...

The High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL) provides estimates of human population distribution at a resolution of 1 arc-second (approximately 30m) for the year 2015. The population estimates are based on recent census data and high-...

Data repository for solar and meteorological ground measurements from a network of weather stations in West Africa. The data is provided in the framework of the West African Power Pool project: "Solar Development in Sub-Saharan Africa -...