Experiencing both recurrent small-scale
events as well as devastating large-scale catastrophes, no
other region in the world is affected by disasters as is
East Asia...
Type: PublicationReport#: 75847Date: February 28, 2013Author:
Jha,Abhas Kumar ;
Stanton-Geddes,Zuzana
Building Urban Resilience in East Asia
is a World Bank program that aims to increase the resilience
of cities to disasters and the impacts of climate change by
using...
Afghanistan will experience a major
security and development transition over the next three
years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, the
North Atlantic treaty...
The Sudan National Multi Donor Trust
Fund (MDTF-N, or the Fund) was established in April 2005
following the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which
effectively ended...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 78524Date: February 19, 2013
The President of the World bank Dr. Jim
Youg Kim pointed the serious consequences of climate change
to the global economic outlook of failing to tackle the
challenges....
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101859Date: February 16, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This Result Profile focuses on Japan and
World Bank cooperation in Pakistan. The Bank and Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) jointly supported
the Pakistan...
Tropical Cyclone Evan, which hit the
South Pacific region in December 2012, has caused
significant damage and loss in Samoa. In the wake of a
series of recent exogenous...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 75816Date: February 1, 2013
At the International Development
Association (IDA)16 mid-term review (MTR), participants
reviewed the following: (i) the implementation of the IDA
crisis response window...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 75831Date: February 1, 2013
Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of
the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human
capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death
and destruction...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 112498Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Buvinic,Mayra Lourdes ;
Das Gupta,Monica ;
Casabonne,Ursula ;
Verwimp,Philip
Violent conflict, a pervasive feature of
the recent global landscape, has lasting impacts on human
capital, and these impacts are seldom gender neutral. Death
and destruction...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6371Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Buvinic, Mayra ;
Das Gupta, Monica ;
Casabonne, Ursula ;
Verwimp, Philip
In fragile and conflict-affected states
just 15 percent of adults have an account at a formal
financial institution while 26 percent report having saved
in the past...
Type: BriefReport#: 82394Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli ;
Klapper, Leora ;
Randall, Douglas
Fragile and conflict-affected situations
(FCS) have become an important focus of World Bank Group
assistance in recent years as recognition of the linkages
between fragility,...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 81954Date: January 31, 2013
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