This Southwest Indian Ocean Risk
Assessment and Financing Initiative (SWIO RAFI) seeks to
provide a solid basis for the future implementation of
disaster risk financing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114353Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Philips, Emma ;
Balog,Simone Andrea Breunig ;
Murnane, Richard ;
Deparday,Vivien ;
Fraser,Stuart Alexander ;
Jongman,Brenden ;
Parmelee,Lisa Ferraro
This paper aims to provide a very
distilled summary of the concepts shaping the discourse
around state-building in fragile, conflict-affected
situations, and to explore...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 105642Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Ingram,Sue
Ethiopia suffers from a long history of
drought due to increasing dependency on rain-fed agriculture
and years of extremely poor rainfall. The aftermath of
drought weighs...
Type: BriefReport#: 103262Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
This handbook is the product of a
workshop held in June 2014 with about 25 environmental
regulators from over 10 FCV-affected countries (Burkina
Faso, Central African...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 103151Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Pohl,Wolfhart ;
Humphry,Ella Victoria
Since 2009, insecurity in the North-East
of Nigeria has led to the loss of over 20,000 lives and the
displacement of over two million people. Throughout the
region livelihoods...
Report#: 110424Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Mariam, Masha ;
Vunobolki, Maurice ;
Ibrahim, Mohammed Aminu ;
Umara, Baba Gana ;
Kamara, Aliyu M. ;
Williams, Jeji ;
Yusufari,Muhammad A. S.
The small Pacific Island Countries
(PICs) face unique constraints which pose public financing
challenges beyond those faced by other small island
developing states....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 121941Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Edwards,Kim Alan ;
Obeyesekere,Sheannal Anthony Manindha
The supporting inclusive peace in the
Bangsamoro program is a 470,000 dollars grant under the
Korean trust fund (TF) for economic and peacebuilding
transitions. The...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 106212Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Stephens,Matthew
In July 1944, representatives from 44
nations met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods,
New Hampshire for the United Nations Monetary and Financial
Conference....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 104697Date: January 1, 2016
The Zimbabwe Reconstruction Fund
(ZIMREF) is a country-specific umbrellatypeMulti-Donor Trust
Fund approved by the Board of Executive Directors of
theWorld Bank on 9...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 113142Date: January 1, 2016
Nepal is highly vulnerable to natural
hazards, including earthquakes. In April and May 2015, two
high magnitude earthquakes rocked the Kathmandu Valley,
claiming nearly...
Type: BriefReport#: 103264Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
This Southwest Indian Ocean Risk
Assessment and Financing Initiative (SWIO RAFI) seeks to
provide a solid basis for the future implementation of
disaster risk financing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114365Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Philips, Emma ;
Balog,Simone Andrea Breunig ;
Murnane, Richard ;
Deparday,Vivien ;
Fraser,Stuart Alexander ;
Jongman,Brenden ;
Parmelee,Lisa Ferraro
Japan's Program for
Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings has increased the
seismic safety of Japanese schools, and hence increased the
safety of Japanese schoolchildren,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 120436Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Bogaerts,Vica Rosario ;
Sakoda,Keiko
The ongoing crisis in Syria has taken a
toll on millions of lives, with its effects reverberating
around the globe. Thousands have died, and nearly half of
the country’s...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 105027Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Verme,Paolo
In the Pacific Island nation of Samoa,
tropical storms often cause devastating damage to homes,
infrastructure, and communities. Following the powerful
Tropical Cyclone...
Type: BriefReport#: 103267Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Rahman,Shaela
The Middle East and North Africa region
is in turmoil. Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen are in civil
war, causing untold damage to human lives and physical
infrastructure....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 102936Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Devarajan,Shantayanan
This report provides data discussing how
MENA countries need a new social contract. The previous one
in place started to deteriorate in the 2000's. Quality
of life...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 102688Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Mottaghi,Lili
This Southwest Indian Ocean Risk
Assessment and Financing Initiative (SWIO RAFI) seeks to
provide a solid basis for the future implementation of
disaster risk financing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 114366Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Philips, Emma ;
Balog,Simone Andrea Breunig ;
Murnane, Richard ;
Deparday,Vivien ;
Fraser,Stuart Alexander ;
Jongman,Brenden ;
Parmelee,Lisa Ferraro
Given the increasing frequency and
severity of extreme weather events, it is useful to
understand the lessons learned from recent natural disasters
in Ha’apai, Tonga,...
Report#: 102681Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Brown, Ray ;
Wang, Xiaoping ;
Page, Christopher
Africa is at a turning point. It has
made remarkable strides, with annual growth averaging around
4.5 percent over the last 20 years. Foreign direct
investment has increased...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 109561Date: January 1, 2016Author:
Pusch,Christoph ;
Bedane,Alemseged W Yohannes ;
Agosti,Alexander ;
Carletto,Andre L. ;
Tiwari,Asmita ;
Parvez,Ayaz ;
Dingel,Carl Christian ;
Chararnsuk,Chalida ;
Wielinga,Doekle Geert ;
Muraya,Francis M. ;
Nkoka,Francis Samson ;
Kane,Isabelle Celine ;
Desai,Jayna Kishor ;
Migraine,Jean Baptiste ;
Hounkpe,Koffi ;
Chalude,Laurence Elodie Esther Fanny ;
Corrales,Luis ;
Neilson,Marc C. ;
Prieto Castellanos,Marcel Giovanni ;
Matera,Michel ;
Singh,Prashant ;
Reid,Robert Curle Jesse ;
Morin Floissac,Veronique Marie
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