After many years delivering corporate
governance programs in Europe and Central Asia with in-house
staff only, International Finance Corporation (IFC) moved to
the next...
Type: BriefReport#: 84354Date: December 1, 2013Author:
Heitmann,Soren ;
Orton,Oliver James
Winter storm Alexa, which hit the West
Bank and Gaza from December 11 to 14, 2013, was one of the
strongest storms to arrive in five decades. Coordination
during the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 88971Date: December 1, 2013Author:
Abu-Hassanein,Zeyad ;
Abumiddain, Rima ;
Erekat,Dana Mohamed ;
Linares-Rivas Barandiaran,Alejandra ;
Nofal, Alaa ;
Phillipp, Bjorn ;
Zanon,Andrea
Development assistance from Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Arab financial
institutions has been responsive in addressing development
and humanitarian needs...
Report#: 83727Date: December 1, 2013Author:
Rouis,Mustapha
Scholars have often argued that crime
deters growth, but the empirical literature assessing such
effect is scarce. By exploiting cross-municipality income
and crime...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6730Date: December 1, 2013Author:
Enamorado Enamorado,Ted ;
Lopez-Calva, Luis F. ;
Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
has made dramatic progress in lowering premature death and
disability from most communicable, newborn, nutritional, and
maternity...
Type: BriefReport#: 83726Date: December 1, 2013Author:
Dahdah, Said; Bose, Dipan
Children with social and emotional
skills do better in school, have improved relationships with
peers and adults, are better adjusted emotionally, and have
improved...
Type: BriefReport#: 83259Date: December 1, 2013Author:
Gould,Meridith Ellen ;
Kelcey,Jo Alix ;
Reyes,Joel E. ;
Sklar, Jennifer ;
Varela,Andrea Diaz
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, and Japanese and Korean
Journalists at the Media Roundtable in Washington, D.C., on
November...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101904Date: November 22, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at the Japanese and
Korean Media Roundtable in Washington, D.C., on November 22,
2013. Mr. Kim...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101903Date: November 22, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
In the aftermath of a natural disaster,
governments can face immense spending needs for the recovery
and reconstruction of damaged public assets. While in many
countries...
Type: BriefReport#: 97979Date: November 4, 2013Author:
Mahul,Olivier ;
Hofliger Topete,Rubem
A dedicated Disaster Risk Management
(DRM) fund is the core budgetary instrument of a
government’s Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (DRFI)
strategy. An effective...
Type: BriefReport#: 97999Date: November 4, 2013Author:
Mahul,Olivier ;
Hofliger Topete,Rubem ;
Yi,Hannah Joy
This guidance note provides policy
makers with an operational framework to establish an
institutional mechanism for financing post-disaster recovery
and reconstruction...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 97976Date: November 1, 2013
Costa Rica is one of the most
earthquake-prone countries in the World due to the tectonic
interaction of the Cocos and Caribbean plates. Earthquakes,
and other natural...
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at the Opening Speech at
the Economic Congress in Izmir, Turkey, on October 30, 2013.
Mr. Kim...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101896Date: October 30, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
The Committee on Development
Effectiveness (CODE) met to discuss the paper entitled World
Bank Group (WBG) assistance to low-income fragile and
conflict-affected states:...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 82690Date: October 21, 2013
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