Afghanistan will experience a major
security and development transition over the next three
years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, NATO and
the Afghan government...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131056Date: May 1, 2012Author:
Hogg,Richard Spencer ;
Nassif,Claudia ;
Gomez Osorio,Camilo ;
Beath,Andrew ;
Byrd,William
The National Disarmament, Demobilization
and Reintegration Program (NDDRP) in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo (DRC) was implemented over a period of seven
years...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 77425Date: May 1, 2012Author:
Yvan,Conoir
Afghanistan will experience a major
security and development transition over the next three
years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, NATO and
the Afghan government...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131056Date: May 1, 2012Author:
Hogg,Richard Spencer ;
Nassif,Claudia ;
Osorio,Carmilo Gomez ;
Beath,Andrew ;
Byrd,William
This report argues that the practice of
disaster risk management (DRM) is a defining characteristic
of resilient societies, and should therefore be integrated,
or 'mainstreamed',...
Report#: 80608Date: May 1, 2012Author:
Ghesquiere,Francis ;
Reid, Prashant Robert
Afghanistan will experience a major
security and development transition over the next three
years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, NATO and
the Afghan government...
Type: Country Economic MemorandumReport#: 70851Date: May 1, 2012
FONDEN (Natural Disasters Fund),
Mexico's fund for natural disasters, was established in
the late 1990s as a mechanism to support the rapid
rehabilitation of federal...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 75322Date: May 1, 2012
This paper argues that state weakness is
broader than implied previously in the civil war literature,
and that particular types of weakness in interaction with
natural...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6071Date: May 1, 2012Author:
Bodea,Ana Maria Cristina
Vietnam has achieved remarkable economic
growth since the Doi Moi reforms beginning in 1986. The
reform process also marks the growth of Vietnam's urban
population....
Volunteerism strengthens social cohesion
and contributes to inclusive national and regional growth;
the community, the volunteers, and wider society all reap
the benefits....
Type: BriefReport#: 75388Date: May 1, 2012Author:
Kdolsky,Sandra
This Result Profile talks about how
Bosnia and Herzegovina has achieved an impressive
post-conflict recovery and its integration in Europe. The
World Bank has played...
The highway from Charikar across the
Salang mountain range to Khenjan and Doshi is the most
critical link of the north-south corridor and can be
described as the lifeline...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 79689Date: April 18, 2012
This Result Profile focuses on
rehabilitation of education, health and road infrastructure
in Jamaica after passage of Hurricane Dean in August 2007.
Hurricane Dean...
Through the natural disaster mitigation
project, Honduras - one of the most vulnerable countries in
the world - has substantially built disaster risk management
(DRM)...
These remarks were delivered by Robert
B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, on April 16, 2012
in honor of HelpAge International, the 2012 winner of the
Conrad H....
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 124469Date: April 16, 2012Author:
Zoellick,Robert B.
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