Cambodia's public servants receive
low salaries. Despite fiscal constraints, the Government has
attempted to improve matters by applying across-the-board 20
percent...
Well-meaning interventions that failed
to provide credit/market access, failed to produce desirable
impacts. This result also implies that joint International
Finance...
Data is essential to inform decisions
aimed at reducing disaster risk. In the Caribbean,
considered one of the most vulnerable regions in the world,
governments face...
Rice is the world's most important
cereal for human nutrition, with an annual production of
more than 450 million tons. However, the vast bulk of this
tonnage goes to...
Malnutrition, including vitamin and
mineral deficiencies, is prevalent in Afghanistan. It
especially is a problem among women of childbearing age and
children under...
Over the last two decades, several
developing countries have adopted right to information (RTI)
laws, bringing the number of countries with such laws to
more than 90....
Type: BriefReport#: 125050Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Dokeniya,Anupama
Devolution under Kenya's new 2010
constitution has wide-ranging implications for the water
sector. The constitution recognizes that access to safe and
sufficient water...
Type: BriefReport#: 85188Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Eberhard,Rolfe ;
Heymans,Christiaan ;
Mwangi, Patrick
Forty percent of Indonesia's more
than 60 million households continue to rely heavily on
traditional biomass fuels for cooking. Household air
pollution from solid fuel...
Type: BriefReport#: 81226Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Zhang, Yabei ;
Tuntivate, Voravate ;
Aristanti, Christina ;
Wu, Yun
Before the Gulf wars, Baghdad had a
well-functioning water and sewerage system, with standards
of reliability, access, and quality similar to many first
world countries,...
Type: BriefReport#: 83719Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Al-Attia,Faris Kais ;
Al-Maroof, Salam ;
Cuvillier,Emmanuel F. ;
Mofid,Nafie Mohammed ;
Randrianarivel, Benjamina ;
Schiffer,Eva ;
Siddiqi,Najma ;
Tsui,Tom C.
Disasters are increasing worldwide with
more devastating effects than ever before. The absolute
number of disasters around the world has almost doubled
since the 1980s,...
Type: BriefReport#: 83720Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Bousquet, Franck
Recurring and persistent droughts force
Moroccan farmers to rely heavily on irrigation. In the
southern part of the country, citrus farmers on the Guerdane
perimeter...
Forests cover about a third of the
earth’s land area and are essential to the health of our
environment. For example, trees and forests absorb and store
much of the...
Ministerial forest law enforcement and
governance initiatives created the political ‘space’ at
national and regional levels to address the complex and
politically sensitive...
Poor governance, corruption and
illegality in the forest sector put at risk forest-dependent
populations who rely on timber and non-timber forest
products for their...
The World Bank and the Program on
Forests, housed at the Bank, help governments steer economic
policy in a ‘forest-friendly’ way. Improving the governance
of the forest...
The main findings from the East Asia and
Pacific Regional Edition of the paper, Global Burden of
Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1)
Substantial...
The main findings from the Middle East
and North Africa Regional Edition of the brief, Global
Burden of Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy
include: 1) Substantial...
The main findings from the Sub-Saharan
Africa Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of
Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1)
Overall progress...
The main findings from the South Asia
Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of Disease:
Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1) Substantial
progress has...
The main findings from the Europe and
Central Asia Regional Edition of the brief, Global Burden of
Disease: Generating Evidence, Guiding Policy include: 1)
Substantial...
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