Summary of note 96: innovation,
investment, and emerging opportunities in today’s textile
and apparel value chain textile and apparel manufacturing is
a critical creator...
Type: BriefReport#: 156040Date: December 1, 2020Author:
Manchanda,Sumit ;
Schlorke,Sabine ;
Schmitt,Maud Louise Anne
In recent years, the severity and
frequency of natural disasters has risen, resulting in
increasing human and economic losses. These extreme weather
events disproportionally...
The world’s poorest countries face the
dual challenge and opportunity of responding to COVID-19 and
building back better (BBB) as they restore progress towards
the 2030...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 154714Date: November 27, 2020
Over much of the past decade,
Bangladesh's development prospects have been buoyed by
a record of strong and sustained economic growth. Yet even
as the country's bustling...
The paper formalizes and tests the
hypothesis that greater exposure to big shocks induces
stronger societal responses for adaptation and protection
from future big shocks....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9481Date: November 24, 2020Author:
Lokshin,Michael M. ;
Kolchin,Vladimir ;
Ravallion,Martin
Armenia is classified as a developing
country and upper-middle income economy and has a restricted
financial capacity to build and maintain a large and complex
fire...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001956Date: November 17, 2020
Globally, cities are the source of over
70 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Cities are also the engines of the global economy,
concentrating more than...
The government of Bangladesh’s ‘Digital
Bangladesh Vision’ views digital development as core to its
overall economic development strategy. The Vision aims to
digitalize...
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region is defined by its urbanizing, and highly concentrated
populations. Sixty-five percent of the region’sinhabitants
live...
Hydrometeorological investments have
trended an overall rise since the mid-1990s when the World
Bank’s (WB) investments in National Meteorological and
Hydrological Service...
Type: ReportReport#: 154335Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Md Kootval,Haleh Kootval ;
Da Palma Soares Dos Santos,Alice Maria
Adaptive Social Protection programs are
increasingly implemented in fragile and insecure contexts in
the Sahel. This paper provides a framework, key principles,
and...
Type: BriefReport#: 154723Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Grun,Rebekka E. ;
Saidi,Mira ;
Bisca,Paul Maximilian
A technical team worked with local
partners to strengthen flood forecasting in the Oti River
through the development of a forecasting model and early
warning system,...
Building urban resilience in Morocco at
both the local and national level has helped to increase the
application of risk information in public policy and
investment...
This study analyzes responses to past
natural disasters in four countries in South Asia -
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Pakistan. Of 178 hazardous
events reported in...
Type: ReportReport#: 155969Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Mohammed-Roberts,Rianna L. ;
Ajumobi,Oluwayemisi Busola ;
Guzman Escobar,Armando Eduardo
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of
the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World
Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on
research by the team,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154054Date: October 31, 2020
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#: 154088Date: October 29, 2020
Industrial activity creates jobs,
catalyzes investments and innovation, and raises standards
of living in many countries. As climate change, and natural
disasters intensify,...
Public private partnerships (PPPs) are a
public policy instrument that seeks to employ the
availability of private capital and the private sector’s
ability to efficiently...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0000610Date: October 29, 2020Author:
Gosis,Jorge Bruno Guillermo ;
Arbeloa,Pablo ;
Romo Sanchez,Ana Lilia Lizette ;
Silva Da Rita,Paulo Jorge ;
Ploetz,Marvin ;
Coarasa,Jorge A. ;
Duarte,David ;
Romero,Daniela Paula ;
Perez,Luis Orlando
Industries create jobs, catalyze
investments, and bring technological advancement to a
country. However, as industries expand across borders and
become increasingly...
This paper analyzes the relationship
between poverty and conflict in the macro and regional data,
including a detailed case study of Uganda. The paper relies
on a large...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9455Date: October 27, 2020Author:
Mueller,Hannes Felix ;
Techasunthornwat,Chanon
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