New, comprehensive analysis of data on
the current routing of goods in India have positioned the
country to break through its freight transport gridlocks and
logistics...
Type: BriefReport#: 113930Date: December 1, 2016Author:
Aritua,Bernard
The transition to cloud computing
broadly means shifting programs and data from personal or
office hardware to shared hardware that many individuals and
organizations...
Type: BriefReport#: 111614Date: December 1, 2016Author:
Melhem,Samia ;
Kim,Seunghyun
Infrastructure is the backbone of every
economy. It delivers basic services critical to sustainable
economic growth, improved living standards, and shared
prosperity....
Type: BriefReport#: 113497Date: December 1, 2016Author:
Grishin,Vadim Nikolaevich ;
Walton, Tom
Climate change presents risks and
opportunities for the financial sector in both emerging and
advanced economies. Financial institutions cannot afford to
be outside...
Connection to schools, markets and
health facilities helps a nation to prosper and improve the
quality of people’s lives. In Bangladesh, extreme
seasonal weather...
Type: BriefReport#: 178816Date: November 22, 2016Author:
World Bank
Destitute households in a village in
Balkh Province are hoping to improve their lives by managing
livestock given to them by a program targeting the
ultra-poor. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 179136Date: November 15, 2016Author:
World Bank
Over 300 modern raisin drying houses
have been built across Afghanistan under the National
Horticulture and Livestock Project, implemented by the
Ministry of Agriculture,...
Type: BriefReport#: 178932Date: November 9, 2016Author:
World Bank
Over hundred countries included actions
related to land-use change and forests in their nationally
determined contributions to fight climate change Investing
in forests...
This brief describes the engagement plan
for the Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), a nationwide
study conducted by the World Bank Group (WBG) in close
consultation...
Type: BriefReport#: 178105Date: November 8, 2016Author:
World Bank
This brief talks about crop insurance in
Philippines. The Philippines is highly dependent on the
agribusiness sector, which provides employment for over
one-third of...
Around 133 million people in Indonesia
live in or near high-risk earthquake zones, with economic
exposure reaching an estimated USD 79 billion. These risks
are especially...
This issue of Indonesia GDP Release
contains economic highlights, including: The Indonesian
economy grew 5.02 percent yoy in Q3 2016, down from 5.2
percent in the second...
The South Asia gender innovation lab was
set up at the World Bank Group (WBG) in 2014 to expand
evidence on what works towards addressing key gender
challenges and reducing...
Anti-money laundering and
combating-the-financing-of-terrorism laws are grounded in
reasonable national security concerns, preventing the
cross-border flow of funds...
Type: BriefReport#: 110883Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Ramachandran,Vijay
Benin, along with sixteen other OHADA
countries in Africa, revised their commercial law to
introduce a new status called entreprenant. This status is
designed for micro...
Type: BriefReport#: 110816Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Benhassine,Najy ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Pouliquen,Victor Maurice Joseph ;
Santini,Massimiliano
Emerging evidence suggests that
de-risking is a reality. Increased capital requirements,
coupled with rising Know-Your-Customer,
Anti-Money-Laundering, and
...
Type: BriefReport#: 110880Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Starnes,Susan K. ;
Kurdyla,Michael ;
Alexander,Alex J.
With the application of new storage
capacity technologies, advances in the capabilities of
energy networks promise to deliver not only efficiency and
productivity gains...
Type: BriefReport#: 110879Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Ong,Sean Frederick
Iraq, once a relatively skilled and
economically prosperous society, has seen its development
thwarted by decades of conflict and economic decline. Today
it is an upper...
Type: BriefReport#: 110141Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Alkhoja,Ghassan N. ;
Neman,Ramzi Afif ;
Hariz,Sara
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