Climate change is increasing household exposure to extreme heat, floods and other natural disasters. This paper examines the differential exposure of poorer households to heat and floods in South Asia....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10947Date: October 7, 2024Author:
A. Patrick Behrer ;
Jonah Matthew Rexer ;
Siddharth Sharma ;
Margaret Triyana
The WBG Gender Strategy 2024-30 puts forward the bold ambition to accelerate gender equality to end poverty on a livable planet in alignment with the World Bank Group Evolution Roadmap. The strategy responds...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 191013Date: October 7, 2024Author:
World Bank
Blue Carbon ecosystems, as powerful carbon sinks, can play a vital role in this change by supporting economies, jobs, and livelihoods. For these reasons, the World Bank Group prepared the flagship report...
Type: ReportReport#: 193743Date: October 5, 2024Author:
World Bank
Blue Carbon encompasses the carbon stored in coastal and marine ecosystems, including mangroves, salt marshes, seagrass meadows, macroalgae (such as kelp), and benthic sediments, recognized for providing...
Type: ReportReport#: 193741Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Blue Carbon ecosystems, as powerful carbon sinks, can play a vital role in supporting economies, jobs, and livelihoods. For these reasons, the World Bank Group prepared the flagship report Unlocking Blue...
Type: ReportReport#: 193742Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) stand to gain significantly from better trading and maritime connections with the rest of the world. This is the case across the Caribbean, the Atlantic, Indian Ocean...
Type: ReportReport#: 193907Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The pace of digitalization and automation has picked up since the internet emerged for the public three decades ago. Globalization has deepened and value chains lengthened. The logistics industry has harnessed...
Type: ReportReport#: 193908Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Challenge Program: Forests for Development, Climate, and Biodiversity (GCP-F) aims to catalyze a paradigm shift in financing global forest-related investments by mobilizing financing at scale...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193916Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The rapid expansion of the digital economy has transformed the labor market, particularly through the rise of platform-based work. Despite the opportunities it brought into the lives of many workers, the...
This case study concerns the PCS for Ports in the Netherlands, namely Portbase. Portbase is a publicly owned entity run and operated as an independent private company. It is an affiliate of both Havenbedrijf...
Type: ReportReport#: 193896Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Port Community Systems (PCSs) are developed against the backdrop of technological advancements. The current framework of PCS technology architecture is best understood as a layered concept. The architectural...
Type: ReportReport#: 193905Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
A Port Community System Operator (PCSO) is responsible for establishing, managing, and enhancing the PCS. It serves as a trusted third party, enabling public and private stakeholders to share their data....
Type: ReportReport#: 193900Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
Rapid technological improvement has led to the adoption of a variety of port data collaboration platforms both in the developed and developing worlds. Apart from the Port Community Systems (PCS), trade,...
Type: ReportReport#: 193906Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Challenge Program for Energy Access and Transition (GCP-E) seeks to respond to the urgency and enormity of the global challenge, not with a change in focus, but with an evolution of the World...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193915Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Accelerating Digitalization Global Challenge Program (the “GCP” or the “Program”) seeks to respond to digital opportunities and challenges by enhancing the speed, scale, and impact of World Bank Group’s...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193917Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Fast-track Water Security and Climate Adaptation Global Challenge Program will leverage the Cascade principles alongside a One World Bank (One WB) approach to promote systems change and significantly...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193919Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Global Challenge Program (GCP) will catalyze and leverage new ways of working between the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), International Development Association (IDA),...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 193920Date: October 4, 2024Author:
World Bank
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