Responding appropriately to the
country’s high exposure and vulnerability to natural
disasters, and capitalizing on a well-functioning insurance
industry, Vietnam has...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 98004Date: September 22, 2013
The Committee welcomed International
Finance Corporation (IFC) Management's presentation.
Members appreciated IFC's comprehensive response to
CODE's request for an action...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 82674Date: September 4, 2013
Motivations behind the extreme brutality
used in many cases of rape in the context of armed conflict
in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains poorly
understood...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 86055Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Elbert, Thomas ;
Hinkel, Harald ;
Maedl, Anna ;
Hermenau, Katharin ;
Hecker, Tobias ;
Schauer, Maggie ;
Riedke, Heike ;
Winkler, Nina ;
Lancaster, Philip
Pakistan is vulnerable to a number of
adverse natural events including earthquakes, cyclones,
tsunamis, floods, and droughts. These risks are further
exacerbated due...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81090Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Forni,Marc S. ;
Khan,Haris ;
Shah,Shiraz Ali ;
Tehsin,Ahsan
Fragile and conflict affected states are
expected to be home to eighty percent of the world's
poorest people by 2030. Half of these states are in Africa,
a rising continent...
Disasters are increasing worldwide with
more devastating effects than ever before. The absolute
number of disasters around the world has almost doubled
since the 1980s,...
Type: BriefReport#: 83720Date: September 1, 2013Author:
Bousquet, Franck
This brief summarizes the group versus
individual liability: long term evidence from Philippines
microcredit lending groups for the period 2004-2008. Group
liability...
Type: BriefReport#: 81337Date: August 14, 2013Author:
Gine,Xavier ;
Karlan,Dean S.
This brief summarizes the direct
democracy and local public goods: evidence from a field
experiment in Indonesia for September 2005-January 2006.
This article presents...
Type: BriefReport#: 81236Date: August 14, 2013Author:
Olken, Benjamin
Has twenty years of separation between
the Republics of Moldova and Pridnestrovie (Transnistria,
PMR) generated a division in attitudes and beliefs in the
two populations?...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 82811Date: August 6, 2013Author:
Chamberlain-Creanga,Rebecca ;
O'Loughlin, John ;
Toal,Gerard
Violent conflict has significant effects
on the welfare, resilience and behaviour of individuals,
households and communities. These impacts deserve close
study at the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 147686Date: August 1, 2013Author:
Brück,Tilman ;
Justino,Patricia ;
Verwimp,Philip ;
Tedesco,Andrew Anthony
While the entire country is vulnerable
to natural hazards, there has yet to be a national level
risk assessment of Pakistan which is considered as the first
step to...
This paper uses Zambia as a case study
to assess empirically whether political interference in a
low-governance environment has diminished in the past years
as expected...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6585Date: August 1, 2013Author:
Beuran,Monica ;
Bridges,Katherine Marguerite ;
Raballand,Gael J. R. F. ;
Sacks,Audrey
The focus of development actors working
in the area of disaster management has shifted substantially
from disaster recovery to disaster risk reduction over the
past...
Type: BriefReport#: 80584Date: August 1, 2013Author:
Kc,Shyam
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