Previous studies have established a
negative relationship between total government spending and
entrepreneurship activity. However, the relationship between
the composition...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS7163Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Islam,Asif Mohammed
This annual report highlights the
results of the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery (GFDRR)’s grants, technical assistance, and
knowledge sharing activities...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 102552Date: January 1, 2015
Chapter one (introduction) provides the
background, rationale, and objectives of this work. Chapter
two assesses the status of under-nutrition in Bangladesh,
provides...
Type: PublicationReport#: 100531Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Mahmud,Iffat ;
Mbuya,Nkosinathi Vusizihlobo
Malnutrition among both women and
children remains a major health issue in rural Pakistan.
They also lack voice in relation to important health and
nutritional decisions...
The World Bank Group (WBG) Youth Summit
is the largest annual gathering of youth worldwide at the
WBG. It is managed by young WBG professionals on a voluntary
basis...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 107501Date: January 1, 2015
This note lays out the rationale for
including land administration quality index in the standard
‘registering property’ indicator by doing business and
discusses initial...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 100922Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Hilhorst,Dorothea Huberta Maria ;
Meunier,Frederic
Significant multiyear and multi decade
variations in intermittent renewable resources hold major
implications for power system investments. They have been
using extensive...
Type: BriefReport#: 95787Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Chattopadhyay,Debabrata ;
Jordan, Rhonda L.
How do you manage an area as vast and
complex as the Great Barrier Reef? Or any other landscape
subject to different human pressures over time? The
application of natural...
Type: ReportReport#: 141844Date: December 31, 2014
Established in 2000, the Japan Social
Development Fund (JSDF) is a partnership between the
government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank Group (WBG). It
is designed to...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 122969Date: December 29, 2014
This forest policy note (FPN) offers an
outside view of the Moldovan forestry sector, provides some
strategic guidance to help define sector goals, and
identifies opportunities...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: ACS11526Date: December 19, 2014
Transforming transportation is the
annual conference co-organized by EMBARQ, the sustainable
urban transport arm of the World Resources Institute’s (WRI)
WRI Ross Center...
Water is central to the Zimbabwean
economy, people's livelihoods and their social
well-being; its availability and reliability is a function
of highly variable climatic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 93731Date: December 16, 2014Author:
Davis, Richard; Hirji, Rafik
To stabilize warming at less than two
degrees Celsius, as the international community agreed in
2009, the world will have to cut greenhouse gas emissions to
net zero...
Highly innovative (HI) start-ups in
developing countries generally lack financial resources and
access to a sufficient customer base to effectively scale
and grow their...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 93034Date: December 6, 2014Author:
Arasaratnam, Amirthan ;
Chellapen, Yanese ;
Shen, Fangda
The poor are often on the front lines of
climate change, living in the most vulnerable areas with the
fewest resources to help them adapt. As climate change
worsens,...
These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at a speech, and
questions and answers session on climate change solution at
the Council on Foreign...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101971Date: December 4, 2014Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank. He
discusses on economic policy that is the key to mobilizing a
coordinated...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101970Date: December 4, 2014Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
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