These remarks were delivered by Jim Yong
Kim, President of the World Bank Group, in Berlin, Germany
on April 5, 2016. He speaks about the complex and vexing
challenges...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129873Date: April 5, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank at
press conference. He discusses on the following topics:
using every innovative...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 129850Date: April 5, 2016Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
The Syrian crisis has devastated the
country and set it back decades in terms of development. The
Syria Information and Research Initiative (SIRI) was
designed to respond...
The Environment and Social Risk
Management (ESRM) program is an IFC initiative funded by the
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) of the
Government of Switzerland....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 116566Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Ooi,Wee Ling ;
Ogunsanya,Nurudeen
This paper provides an overview of
poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s.
Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the
earlier decade,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 125659Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Narayan,Ambar ;
Murgai,Rinku
The current PCRAFI program, phase II
builds on the initial phase of thePacific Catastrophe Risk
Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI), ajoint
initiative of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115199Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Mahul,Olivier ;
Cook,Samantha Jane ;
Prasad,Raymond
The city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania has
undergone a period of unprecedented urbanization that has
contributed to the degradation of the city's natural
environment. With...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 115185Date: April 1, 2016
This Mitigation Action Assessment
Protocol (MAAP) is proposed as a key tool for achieving
transparency in how these climate actions are designed and
how they compare...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 110153Date: April 1, 2016Author:
Shekhar, Chandra ;
Castro,Marcos ;
Sylvester,Bianca Ingrid
This paper introduces an innovative
methodology that combines industry level information
(exports, HA 4-digits) with indicators at the country level,
to analyze which...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112905Date: March 30, 2016Author:
Castaneda,Gonzalo ;
Chavez-Juarez, Florian
Climate change is a threat to the core
mission of the World Bank Group (WBG). Current weather
extremes already affect millions of people, putting food and
water security...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 104137Date: March 19, 2016
A recent survey of rigorous impact
evaluations of programs to help small and medium-size firms
to formalize indicates that the programs do not seem to work
for most...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7605Date: March 16, 2016Author:
Piza,Caio
Forests are vital storehouses of carbon
on our planet. However, when forests are cleared to make way
for agriculture and other activities, they emit large
quantities...
Accurate measurement of stock levels,
turnover, and profitability in microenterprises in
developing countries is difficult due to the fact that the
majority of these...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 104048Date: March 16, 2016Author:
De Mel,Suresh ;
Herath,Dammika ;
Mckenzie,David J. ;
Pathak,Yuvraj
This paper discusses the scope for
market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas
mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto
Protocol, for implementing...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7594Date: March 10, 2016Author:
Strand,Jon
Environmental policy is a crucial driver
of environmental outcomes and in terms development and
poverty outcomes, as policy environments affect incentives
and shift...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 104021Date: March 10, 2016
Fisheries constitute an important source
of livelihoods for tens of thousands of poor people in the
southwest coastal region of Bangladesh living near the
UNESCO Heritage...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7593Date: March 10, 2016Author:
Dasgupta,Susmita ;
Huq,Mainul ;
Mustafa,Md. Golam ;
Sobhan,Md Istiak ;
Wheeler,David
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