Economic losses from natural disasters
totaled 92 billion dollars in 2015. Such statements, all too
commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other
measure...
This paper presents a model to assess
the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an
economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of
disaster-related...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7886Date: November 14, 2016Author:
Hallegatte,Stephane ;
Bangalore,Mook ;
Vogt-Schilb,Adrien Camille
Over hundred countries included actions
related to land-use change and forests in their nationally
determined contributions to fight climate change Investing
in forests...
This assessment of the current state of
implementation of the Basel core principles for effective
banking supervision (BCPs) in Turkey has been completed as a
part of...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 112646Date: November 1, 2016
The global partnership for education
(GPE) addresses the most significant education challenges
faced by developing countries through supporting governments
to improve...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122235Date: November 1, 2016
The project is part of the ongoing
reform of the water supply and sanitation (WSS) sector in
Albania. This final report includes those concrete policy
proposals and...
Type: ReportReport#: 133353Date: November 1, 2016Author:
Jacobsen,Michael Peter Steen ;
Giantris,Philip
This assessment provides an update on
significant regulatory and supervisory developments in the
insurance sector of Turkey since 2011. The assessment was
conducted...
Type: Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP)Report#: 112647Date: November 1, 2016
Mongolian general education system
reform started in 2005 to extend it from 10 years to 12
years to align it with international standards. Since the SY
2008-2009, early...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122940Date: November 1, 2016
This story highlights the Kenya
Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project supports
smallholder farmers through new technologies, improved
market access and...
The historic Paris Agreement, reached at
COP21 in December 2015, calls on the world to keep global
temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees
Celsius above...
The conference on women, leadership, and
the economy in South Asia comes at a time when regional
integration is being given much impetus, yet political
constraints are...
The Committee on Development
Effectiveness (CODE) met to discuss program-for-results
(PforR): an early-stage assessment of the process and
effects of a new lending instrument...
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
discusses on the many examples of innovation in fighting
poverty, empowering...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129847Date: October 18, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This story highlights the World Bank is
working to build a food system that can feed everyone, every
day with a safe and nutritious diet, delivered in a
sustainable...
Climate-driven water variability is a
natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but
predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental
change of this...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7855Date: October 11, 2016Author:
Dinar,Shlomi ;
Katz,David ;
De Stefano,Lucia ;
Blankespoor,Brian
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
discusses on 2007 Bali Climate COP at the suggestion of
Indonesia’s then...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129845Date: October 8, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank at
the annual meetings plenary. He discusses on the following
topics: new structure...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129851Date: October 7, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at the World Bank-IMF
Annual Meetings in 2016. He speaks about Haiti, which was
devastated by...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129863Date: October 6, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
discusses on the government and offered immediate support to
respond to...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129849Date: October 6, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
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