The recovery of Tonga from Tropical
Cyclone Gita provides both challenges and opportunities of a
scale and complexity unprecedented in our history. Meeting
the challenges...
Scaling up climate-smart agriculture in
Africa is vital to ending hunger and boosting shared
prosperity on the continent. The Africa Climate Business
Plan (ACBP) launched...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130849Date: October 1, 2018Author:
Braimoh,Ademola ;
Zhao,Yuxuan ;
Cooke,Sanjiva ;
Obuya,Grace Anyango
This report is an inaugural issue in a
new series that aims to offer a fresh look at how developing
countries are overcoming persistent problems in public
sector management....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131020Date: October 1, 2018
Globally, mobilizing the required
funding for financing sustainable and green economic growth,
a great proportion of which is expected to come from the
private sector,...
Report#: 131516Date: October 1, 2018Author:
Damianova,Adriana Jordanova ;
Gutierrez,Eva M. ;
Levitanskaya,Katerina ;
Minasyan,Gayane ;
Nemova,Vladislava I.
The high-level Investor Forum will take
place on November 29, 2018, in Buenos Aires, hosted by the
President of Argentina, this year’s chair of the G20, and
co-organized...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132533Date: October 1, 2018Author:
Bouye,Eric ;
Eccles,Robert G. ;
Klimenko,Svetlana V. ;
Taglioni,Daria
The DSA concludes that Tuvalu remains at
a high risk of debt distress, in line with the 2016 DSA
conclusion. External debt has breached several thresholds as
of 2017,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130857Date: October 1, 2018
Sanitation improvements have had limited
effectiveness in reducing the spread of fecal pathogens into
the environment. The authors conducted environmental
measurements...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 136139Date: September 26, 2018Author:
Ercumen,Ayse ;
Pickering,Amy J. ;
Kwong,Laura H. ;
Mertens,Andrew ;
Arnold,Benjamin Ford ;
Benjamin-Chung,Jade ;
Hubbard,Alan Edward ;
Alam,Mahfuja ;
Sen,Debashis ;
Islam,Sharmin ;
Rahman,Md. Zahidur ;
Kullmann,Craig Phillip ;
Chase,Claire ;
Ahmed,Rokeya ;
Parvez,Sarker Masud ;
Unicomb,Leanne ;
Rahman,Mahbubur ;
Ram,Pavani K. ;
Clasen,Thomas ;
Luby,Stephen P. ;
Colford,John M. Jr
This review of the India Completion and
Learning Report of the World Bank Group (WBG) Country
Partnership Strategy (CPS) covers the CPS period, FY13-FY17,
including...
Type: CPF Completion and Learning Review ReviewReport#: 129968Date: September 5, 2018
What should a "Modern Food
System" in a predominantly agricultural economy
embarking on an ambitious transformation agenda, rapidly
evolving food system, and co-existing...
Type: ReportReport#: 138449Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Ekanayake,Indira Janaki ;
Jaffee,Steven M. ;
Ahmed,Hanane
This report presents solution models for
three types of marine pollution originating on land:
wastewater, agricultural runoff, and marine litter. It
examines the status...
Report#: 130154Date: September 1, 2018Author:
Krushelnytska,Olha
Achieving the goals of the Paris
Agreement requires countries to finance transformational
changes with significant investments in both mitigation and
resilience-building....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 130066Date: September 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
With climate change, the frequency and
intensity of extreme events is expected to increase and
negatively impact the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable
communities...
Type: ReportReport#: 150467Date: August 27, 2018Author:
Lazo,Jeffrey K.
The present report provides a cryosphere
perspective on Bhutan’s water resources, monitoring needs,
and climate services. Main concerns are with glaciers, snow,
permafrost,...
Type: ReportReport#: 133253Date: August 25, 2018Author:
Pillai,Poonam
Urban slum residents often have worse
health outcomes compared with other urbanites and even their
rural counterparts. This suggests that slum residents do not
always...
Recent studies have suggested that
women's business decisions are influenced by members of
their household, especially their spouse, and that these
intrahousehold dynamics...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8550Date: August 13, 2018Author:
Friedson-Ridenour,Sophia ;
Pierotti,Rachael Susan
The 2018 Debt Sustainability Analysis
(DSA) assesses that the Republic of the Marshall Islands
(RMI) remains at high risk of debt distress. The ratios of
the present...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129996Date: August 10, 2018Author:
Panzer,John ;
Helbling, Thomas
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