This datasets, and the accompanying
technical documentation and reports, are availableon World
Bank’s micro-data catalogue. This brochure showcases these
micro-datasets...
Low-income women in the bustling city of
Lagos, Nigeria are both time and resource poor. However,
they seek services to park their money for larger spending
purposes,...
Type: BriefReport#: 117394Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Biallas,Margarete O.
Global facility for disaster reduction
and recovery (GFDRR) supports governments in designing
financial protection strategies and instruments to respond
to natural disasters....
Type: BriefReport#: 114486Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mahul,Olivier
Small island states face some of the
greatest vulnerabilities of any nations due to climate
change and natural disasters but the threats can be reduced
through adequate...
Type: BriefReport#: 114488Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Gitay,Habiba ;
Jones,Nicholas K.W.
This note analyzes various issues
related to women workers in Malaysia’s formal private
sector. Using the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys data, the
proportion of women...
Type: BriefReport#: 138330Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Zarka,Amanda Franziska
This brief talks about the natural
catastrophe and weather index insurance in Haiti. Haiti is
one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world with
earthquakes,...
This brief highlights the importance of
the agribusiness sector as a pillar for development. It
provides a framework to measure internationally traded
agribusiness and...
Type: BriefReport#: 112195Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mendez Ramos,Fabian ;
Paustian,Nina
Proper coordination is critical to
saving lives and meeting emergency needs when it comes to
responding to natural disasters. Until recently the Kyrgyz
Republic, a country...
Type: BriefReport#: 115239Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Takeuchi,Ko
Emerging market economies (EMEs) face
significant funding gaps in strategic sectors, such as
infrastructure and small and medium enterprise (SME)
financing, that if...
Type: BriefReport#: 119412Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Carvajal,Ana Fiorella ;
Loladze, Tamuna ;
Hammersley,James Walter ;
Anderson,Jeffrey David ;
Walley,Simon Christopher ;
Kemmish, Richard
Film is a very effective tool for
communicating knowledge about volcanic hazards and risk.
Teaming with scientists and communication experts, a team
from the University...
Building resilience to natural hazards
begins with a better understanding of disaster risk. In an
effort to bridge gaps in risk information and create a
self-sustaining...
Type: BriefReport#: 114477Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh
Targeted risk information is critical to
enabling effective policies that reduce risk and make
communities safer. Through its innovative frontline program,
the Global...
The outputs of this project can be
summarized as providing real time dike and levee information
at local scales (up to 10,000 ha) that is collected,
analysed and used...
A new database of geospatial information
and a related model allow Afghani planners to estimate,
analyze, and visualize the most cost-effective
electrification options...
The risk of drought is one of the
biggest threats to livestock production in Uruguay. This is
particularly relevant in livestock breeding bases, as the
quality of the...
Effective risk assessment and disaster
recovery efforts can only be as good as the data that
informs them. With missing or inadequate risk information
hindering resilience...
Type: BriefReport#: 114475Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh
Global facility for disaster reduction
and recovery (GFDRR) is working to improve the ability of
developing countries to understand, predict, and warn their
citizens...
Type: BriefReport#: 114487Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V.
The hurricane risk in Grenada is more
significant than the earthquake risk. Annual average loss
(AAL) from hurricanes is United States (U.S.) 8.2 million
dollars (0.9...
Sri Lanka has the 14th-largest gender
gap in labor force participation globally: 36 percent
forwomen versus 75 percent for men in 2016.Despite
significant progress in...
Since January 2014, the World Bank
Group’s (WBG’s) finance and markets global practice has
provided technical assistance to establish a crop and
livestock insurance...
Type: BriefReport#: 121775Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Maher,Barry Patrick ;
Mahul,Olivier
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