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...
This memorandum provides the quarterly
update of IBRD’s lending rates and spreads pursuant to the
standard loan pricing as defined in the Bank Policy and
Directive Financial...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 156264Date: January 28, 2021
South Asia is one of the region’s most
vulnerable to the impacts of natural hazards, particularly
climate-induced extremes. The frequency and intensity of
climate-induced...
Type: ReportReport#: 157231Date: January 27, 2021Author:
Sakoda,Keiko ;
Sijapati,Bandita ;
Benavidez,Melody Joy
The annual report summarizes the
progress made across the three programmatic areas over the
course of the fiscal year 2020, in terms of expanding and
refining CRP’s...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 156137Date: January 21, 2021
To achieve the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) by 2030, development institutions will need to
leverage an unprecedented amount of private sector capital.
This is...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 155864Date: January 20, 2021
Many cities and urban centers around the
world experience high air pollution episodes attributable to
increased anthropogenic alterations of natural environmental
systems....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9512Date: January 20, 2021Author:
Okure,Deo ;
Bainomugisha,Engineer ;
Lozano Gracia,Nancy ;
Soppelsa,Maria Edisa
Innovations in mapping technologies are
unlocking data on risk and exposure identification in
Africa's fastest growing cities. Cities across Africa
are experiencing...
National disaster management agencies in
the Caribbean are overcoming challenges to the
implementation of effective emergencypreparedness and
response systems. The Caribbean...
The experience of development, as well
as understandings of and responses to it, are uniquely
rendered via popular culture generally, and popular music.
Music has been...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 168172Date: January 12, 2021Author:
Lewis, David ;
Rodgers,Dennis William ;
Woolcock,Michael
This paper describes a modeling
methodology that embeds climate damages from natural
disasters and risk management strategies into a
macroeconomic model for Jamaica....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9505Date: January 4, 2021Author:
Burns,Andrew ;
Jooste,Charl ;
Schwerhoff,Gregor
As a result of extraordinary rains in
May 2014, Serbia was affected by the most severe flooding in
120 years. The disaster affected more than 1.6 million
people (22...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157091Date: January 1, 2021
Risk communication has started to
develop a foothold in the disaster risk management (DRM)
field, increasingly being recognized as an important
component in any DRM...
Type: ReportReport#: 159960Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Suarez,Paula ;
Mankoff, Bob ;
Balog-Way,Simone Andrea Breunig ;
Vuignier, Samantha
Weather forecasting generates
significant societal benefits, which can be increased by
improving accuracy and lead-time through better
meteorological monitoring, modeling...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 156953Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Kull,Daniel Werner ;
Riishojgaard,Lars Peter ;
Eyre,John ;
Varley,Robert Andrew
Serbia is a flood-prone country which
has experienced several significant floods in the past
decades, affecting hundreds of thousands of people and
causing billions...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157244Date: January 1, 2021
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