This report includes the assessment of
the EP&R capacities of North Macedonia based on the R2R
diagnostic methodology, as designed by the World Bank and
executed by...
The COVID-19 pandemic struck the global
economy after a decade that featured a broad-based slowdown
in productivity growth. Global Productivity: Trends,
Drivers, and...
Type: PublicationReport#: 160057Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Pazarbasioglu,Ceyla ;
Dieppe,Alistair Matthew ;
Francis,Neville Ricardo ;
Kawamoto,Atsushi ;
Kilic Celik,Sinem ;
Kindberg-Hanlon,Gene ;
Matsuoka,Takenori ;
Okawa, Yoki ;
Okou,Cedric Iltis Finafa ;
Steinbach,Max Rudibert ;
Taskin,Temel ;
Temple,Jonathan Richard William ;
Vashakmadze,Ekaterine T. ;
Vorisek,Dana Lauren ;
Wheeler,Collette Mari ;
Ye,Lei Sandy
The Somalia Urbanization Review aims to
improve our understanding of the complex issues pertaining
to urbanization in Somalia and identifies priority
interventions that...
Type: ReportReport#: 156036Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Watanabe,Makiko ;
D'Aoust,Olivia Severine
Societies continue to bear increasing
costs from natural hazards as population growth, the
geographic concentration of economic and infrastructural
assets in vulnerable...
Resilience is the capacity to prepare
for disruptions, recover from shocks, and grow from a
disruptive experience. The World Bank Group has developed a
Resilience Rating...
Type: ReportReport#: 156035Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Clement,Viviane Wei Chen ;
Siddiqi,Sundus Naeem ;
Winglee,Michelle Anne
This report presents an analysis
conducted by the World Bank to assess macro-fiscal impacts
of earthquakes and floods in European Union (EU) Member
States (MS), analyze...
Type: ReportReport#: 159695Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Cook,Samantha Jane ;
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Stanton-Geddes,Zuzana ;
Skalon,Tatiana ;
Pele,Daniel Traian ;
Markhvida,Maryia ;
Fraser,Stuart Alexander ;
Stefan,Cristina ;
Bouessel Du Bourg,Thibault Jacques Marie
Sub-Saharan Africa urgently needs to
accelerate the pace of agricultural growth to improve
livelihoods, ensure food security, and keep droughts from
turning into famines....
The objective of this report is to
summarize insights and provide recommendations related to
the challenges and opportunities for civil protection (CP)
agencies to leverage...
Type: ReportReport#: 159697Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Stanton-Geddes,Zuzana ;
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Cook,Samantha Jane ;
Irimia,Ioana-Alexandra ;
Dengler,Solene
In May 2014, Republic of Serbia was
affected by the most severe floods in the past one hundred
and twenty years. The floods affected more than 1.6 million
people in...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157110Date: January 1, 2021
Caribbean countries share a number of
characteristics which make them vulnerable to external
threats, including small populations, limited economies of
scale, and undiversified...
The Country Opinion Survey in Bosnia and
Herzegovina assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a
better understanding of how stakeholders in Bosnia and
Herzegovina...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168450Date: January 1, 2021Author:
Felzer,Sharon
In the early 1990s, a host of unitary
states in Southeast Asia began pursuing, at their own pace,
the process of decentralizing their systems of governance.
The form...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 155569Date: December 31, 2020Author:
Bhatti,Zubair Khurshid ;
Mcdonald,Paul Lachlan
A field lab is an in-person event
designed to promote interdisciplinary collaboration and
provide a sandbox to innovate, create, and test new ideas to
solve important...
Type: ReportReport#: 155233Date: December 21, 2020Author:
Barns,Karen ;
Soden,Robert John
This short note was published as
independent blogs between June and October 2020 as part of
technical knowledge produced by the disaster risk finance
community of practice.
Type: ReportReport#: 155150Date: December 17, 2020Author:
Garcia Mora,Alfonso ;
Mahul,Olivier ;
Calcutt,Evie Isabel Neall ;
Ranger,Nicola Ann ;
Rajput,Sumati ;
Signer,Benedikt Lukas ;
Ansell,Catherine ;
Cook,Samantha Jane ;
Skalon,Tatiana ;
Maimbo,Samuel Munzele ;
Alton,Martin Luis ;
Vu,Thu Hang ;
Dicko,Tenin Fatimata ;
Plevin,John Luke ;
Bavandi,Antoine ;
Hagemann,Simon ;
Ashok Krishna,Kaavya
This public expenditure review (PER) is
the first comprehensive assessment of public spending on
disaster response, recovery, and reconstruction activities
in the Philippines....
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 156154Date: December 14, 2020Author:
Qian,Rong ;
Signer,Benedikt Lukas ;
Skalon,Tatiana ;
Marohombsar,Zidni
The Philippine economy contracted by
10.0 percent, year-on-year, in the first three quarters of
2020, given the triple shock brought by the Coronavirus
disease (COVID-19)...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 154806Date: December 2, 2020Author:
Qian,Rong ;
Chua,Kevin C. ;
Cruz,Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Enriquez,Karen Annette Lazaro ;
Marohombsar,Zidni ;
Santos,Eduard Renzo ;
Endo,Isaku ;
Lee,Heejin ;
Belghith,Nadia Belhaj Hassine ;
Piza,Sharon Faye Alariao ;
Cho,Yoonyoung ;
Rodriguez,Ruth Reyes ;
Kawasoe,Yasuhiro ;
Zapanta,Arianna Ma Francesca S ;
Signer,Benedikt Lukas ;
Cordero,Lesley Jeanne Yu ;
Skalon,Tatiana ;
Borja,Fides Barbara Babiera
Toyama City, one of the World Bank TDLC
City Partnership Program cities, has become synonymous with
the idea of a compact and livable city in Japan. It is a
pleasant...
This case study suggests how
shock-responsive social protection systems can be the basis
of a government-led response to a health crisis and a
rapid-onset disaster....
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 154949Date: December 1, 2020Author:
Sandford,Judith ;
Rajput,Sumati ;
Coll-Black,Sarah ;
Kargbo,Abu
A machine learning (ML) algorithm is a
type of computer program that learns to perform specific
tasks based on various data inputs or rules provided by a
human. Since...
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