There are still many countries around
the world that have not effectively engaged their
subnational governments in their climate change strategies
and policy frameworks....
Type: ReportReport#: 161352Date: July 1, 2021Author:
Martinez-Vazquez,Jorge
In Mashreq, climate change and fragility
form a vicious cycle wherein current fragility hinders
climate action and climate threats will exacerbate
fragility. The Coronavirus...
Type: ReportReport#: 163534Date: July 1, 2021Author:
Ahmad,Ali ;
Ranade,Monali
This note presents a synthesis of the
comprehensive studies produced under the World Bank’s
analytical activity on an integrated approach to Universal
urban sanitation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163702Date: July 1, 2021
This study estimates the impacts of two
interventions implemented as field experiments in informal
settlements by Nairobi’s water and sanitation
utility to improve...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9725Date: July 1, 2021Author:
Coville,Aidan ;
Galiani,Sebastian Franco ;
Gertler,Paul J. ;
Yoshida,Susumu
Despite the significant potential of
soil to sequester organic carbon, there are challenges to
implementing carbon sequestration projects. For example,
changes in soil...
Sovereign ESG performance sets a
benchmark for subnational investment decisions and is
increasingly a driver of capital allocations. How market
performance or country...
Type: ReportReport#: 161130Date: June 29, 2021Author:
Gratcheva,Ekaterina M. ;
Guhry, Bryan ;
Wang,Dieter
This legal study has been developed as a
part of the World Bank’s work on ‘Building Resilience in
Pacific Atoll Island Countries’ which aims to strengthen the
capacity...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0002370Date: June 29, 2021Author:
Freestone,David ;
Cicek,Duygu
This policy brief aims to bring together
policy makers, development partners and implementing
agencies to advance the WASH-in-schools’ agenda in
Tajikistan. In June...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 161109Date: June 28, 2021
This report is the last output of a
programmatic (two-year) analytical task Egypt Programmatic
Capacity Building Support to the Ministry of Agriculture and
Land Reclamation...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0002438Date: June 28, 2021
Sustainable development of the
agricultural sector and the associated agrifood industry is
key to ending hunger and poverty and meeting other global
goals, such as those...
Type: IEG EvaluationReport#: 161416Date: June 28, 2021
A series of discussions began in 2005
within the UNFCCC framework with the idea of moving forward
in Climate Change mitigation along with fostering the
adoption by developing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 161031Date: June 25, 2021Author:
Briceño,Nuvia ;
Carvajal,Manuel ;
Contreras,Daniel ;
Gianelli,Luis ;
López,Milza ;
Mattar,César ;
Montaner,Daniel ;
Correa Paris,Ana Maria ;
Soto,Gabriela ;
Troppa,Constanza ;
Trujillo,Georgina
The Ministry of Gender, Labor, and
Social Development (MGLSD), with support from World Bank, is
convening, enhancing, and developing a comprehensive
approach on women’s...
The purpose of this article is to inform
members of the Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI)
Forum on Energy and Climate Change on the energy and climate
policy...
Our collective responses to climate
change, poverty, and inequality are defining choices of our
age. We must tackle them together to deliver on our twin
goals of reducing...
Our collective responses to climate
change, poverty, and inequality are defining choices of our
age. We must tackle them together to deliver on our twin
goals of reducing...
In the past two decades, insights from
behavioral sciences, particularly behavioral economics, have
been widely applied in the design of social programs such as
pensions,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9704Date: June 21, 2021Author:
Joseph,George ;
Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi ;
Miquel-Florensa,Pepita ;
Bejarano,Hernán D. ;
Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
This brief for policy makers is a
summary of the main conclusions derived from the “Argentina:
Valuing Water” report, a detailed and technical water
security diagnostic,...
Climate change is a threat to the global
development agenda. Without further action to reduce extreme
poverty, provide access to basic services, and strengthen
resilience,...
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