When a disaster strikes, it not only
affects households’ physical assets, but also their income
levels and ability to contribute to the local economy.
Critically, these...
Type: ReportReport#: 154947Date: March 1, 2021Author:
Kerblat,Yann ;
Arab,Ali ;
Walsh,Brian James ;
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Hallegatte,Stephane
Men and women, boys and girls have
different experiences of disasters. Gender dynamics impact
both the way they are affected by disasters and their
capacity to withstand...
Type: ReportReport#: 157046Date: February 26, 2021Author:
Erman,Alvina Elisabeth ;
De Vries Robbe,Sophie Anne ;
Thies,Stephan Fabian ;
Kabir,Kayenat ;
Maruo,Mirai
The weather enterprise must continue to
innovate and expand to keep people safe from disruptive
weather, and to keep up with the demand for weather
intelligence for...
Type: BriefReport#: 157030Date: February 25, 2021Author:
Rogers,David P. ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Md Kootval,Haleh Kootval ;
Suwa,Makoto
Colombia has the highest rate of
recurrent disasters due to natural phenomenon in Latin
America with more than 600 disasters per year. The heavy
rainfall during the...
Type: ReportReport#: 156951Date: February 22, 2021
The objective of the National Disaster
Risk Management Program (NDRMP) is to support the Government
of Serbia to build a comprehensive program for disaster
resilience....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157235Date: February 18, 2021
The World Bank Group is the world’s
oldest and largest multiregional development bank. Through
its operations, research, and partnerships, the World Bank
Group brings...
Type: ReportReport#: 156725Date: February 15, 2021Author:
World Bank Group Archives
The World Bank Group is the world’s
oldest and largest multiregional development bank. Through
its operations, research, and partnerships, the World Bank
Group brings...
Type: ReportReport#: 156725Date: February 15, 2021Author:
World Bank Group Archives
The World Bank has mobilized funding
from the nationally determined commitments (NDC) support
facility to support Namibia with a technical assistance (TA)
program to...
Type: ReportReport#: 161369Date: February 10, 2021Author:
Cestari,Anna
Developing countries face an
increasingly complex risk landscape. Interconnected hazards
threaten to roll back development gains and undermine
efforts to end extreme...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 156452Date: February 8, 2021
Over the past decade, nighttime lights
have become a widely used proxy for measuring economic
activity. This paper examines the potential for high
frequency nighttime...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9538Date: February 4, 2021Author:
Roberts,Mark
Refugee camps are believed to represent
safe havens for forcibly displaced persons, but studies
looking at refugees' quality of life in camps are few.
This paper explores...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9533Date: February 2, 2021Author:
Obi,Chinedu Temple
Resilience is the capacity to prepare
for disruptions, recover from shocks, and grow from a
disruptive experience. The World Bank Group has developed a
Resilience Rating...
Type: ReportReport#: 156035Date: February 1, 2021Author:
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Clement,Viviane Wei Chen ;
Siddiqi,Sundus Naeem ;
Winglee,Michelle Anne
Indonesia’s location in a very active
seismic zone naturally exposes it to significant geophysical
hazards (earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis). In
addition to...
Type: ReportReport#: 156913Date: February 1, 2021Author:
Setiono,Irma Magdalena ;
Vun,Yong Jian ;
Rizki,Muhammad Halik ;
Keinanen ;
Auli ;
Abracosa ;
Ramon ;
Alexander Sopakuwa ;
Armein ;
Lnu,Evilia ;
Yuniarti,Nia ;
Kreisberg,Devan Julia ;
Saputra,Denes Pawan ;
Saputro,Nuriza Ratno
Over the last decade, nighttime lights,
artificial lighting at night that is associated with human
activity and can be detected by satellite sensors, have
become a widely...
Type: ReportReport#: 161294Date: February 1, 2021Author:
Roberts,Mark
This paper aims to improve understanding
of how disaster risk financing (DRF) enables social
protection (SP) systems to respond to and mitigate the
impacts of climatic...
Type: ReportReport#: 156234Date: January 29, 2021Author:
Calcutt,Evie Isabel Neall ;
Maher,Barry Patrick ;
Fitzgibbon,Catherine Anne
Effective institutions and systems of
public financial management (PFM) play a critical role in
the preparation and response to disasters. Strong PFM ties
together often...
Effective institutions and systems of
public financial management (PFM) play a critical role in
the preparation and response to disasters. Strong PFM ties
together often...
Effective institutions and systems of
public financial management (PFM) play a critical role in
the preparation and response to disasters. Strong PFM ties
together often...
Effective institutions and systems of
public financial management (PFM) play a critical role in
the preparation and response to disasters. Strong PFM ties
together often...
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