TDLC was launched in Tokyo in 2004 under
a partnership between the Government of Japan and the World
Bank. TDLC is a global one-stop knowledge hub for urban
development,...
Type: BriefReport#: 153273Date: September 24, 2020
Part one of the report conducts an
analytic mapping of intersectional risks for South Sudan
based on existing data and assessments related to natural
hazards and conflict...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001863Date: September 24, 2020Author:
Meutia,Rina ;
Loeschner,Lukas ;
Watanabe,Makiko ;
Brhane,Meskerem ;
Amadio,Mattia ;
Muhammad, Asar ;
Islam, Mahmud ;
Kang, Tarnjeet K ;
Anjum, Naveed ;
Kirby, Megan
Since 2000, there have been three major
global slowdowns, with the latest and most pronounced
episode triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same
time, many countries...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9411Date: September 22, 2020Author:
Dieppe,Alistair Matthew ;
Kilic Celik,Sinem ;
Okou,Cedric Iltis Finafa
The reduction and management of impacts
from natural disasters has traditionally been dominated by
grey or hard infrastructural solutions. However,
internationally and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 162684Date: September 22, 2020
The COVID-19-triggered collapse in oil
prices in March and April 2020 was the seventh, and by far
the most severe, in a series of such collapses since 1970.
This paper,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9403Date: September 21, 2020Author:
Kabundi,Alain Ntumba ;
Ohnsorge,Franziska Lieselotte
Digital elevation models (DEMs)
represents the elevation of the earth’s surface in the form
of a digital image where each pixel contains an elevation
value of the center...
Type: ReportReport#: 152896Date: September 11, 2020Author:
Croneborg,Louise E. M. ;
Saito,Keiko ;
Matera,Michel ;
McKeown,Don ;
Van Aardt,Jan Andreas
The Philippine Parametric Catastrophe
Risk Insurance Program (the ‘parametric program’) represents
a key milestone in this partnership. In July of 2017, the
Philippines...
Type: ReportReport#: 161080Date: September 4, 2020Author:
Signer,Benedikt Lukas ;
Poulter,Richard Andrew ;
Villacin,Deanna Therese ;
Simon ;
Claire
This paper examines the relationship
between maternal exposure to violence during pregnancy and
newborn birthweight. The paper exploits variation in the
timing of exposure...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9377Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Rodriguez Takeuchi,Laura Kiku
The Country Opinion Survey in Mexico
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Mexico perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 168396Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Countries that strike it rich when
exploring for oil and gas often fail to see growth
materialize. This paper shows that one way things can get
messy is via squandering...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9374Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Vezina,Pierre-Louis
Through the Honduras and Nicaragua
hydromet capacity assessment and strengthen project, a
Modernization Plan was proposed for the strengthening of
hydromet services...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0001805Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Narvaez Marulanda,Lizardo
This paper investigates whether poor
employment prospects of potential insurgents help to fuel
conflict. The paper provides a new test of this
"opportunity cost mechanism"...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9373Date: August 31, 2020Author:
Guardado,Jenny ;
Pennings,Steven Michael
As the world faces its most significant
health and economic crisis in almost one hundred years,
international cooperation and global integration face their
own watershed...
Type: BriefReport#: 152015Date: August 24, 2020Author:
Nixon, Stewart
Adaptive social protection (ASP) helps
to build the resilience of poor and vulnerable households to
the impacts of large, covariate shocks, such as natural
disasters,...
Type: ReportReport#: 148677Date: August 20, 2020Author:
Bowen,Thomas Vaughan ;
Del Ninno,Carlo ;
Andrews,Colin ;
Coll-Black,Sarah ;
Gentilini,Ugo ;
Johnson,Kelly ;
Kawasoe,Yasuhiro ;
Kryeziu,Adea ;
Maher,Temy Maria ;
Williams,Asha M.
Natural disasters in APEC (Asia-Pacific
Economic Cooperation) economies have significant impacts on
the economy and daily lives of the population. To minimize
those...
This paper presents a multisectoral risk
assessment, analyzing natural risks faced by key drivers of
socioeconomic development in coastal Vietnam. The analysis
quantifies...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9352Date: August 5, 2020Author:
Braese,Johannes Michael ;
De Vries Robbe,Sophie Anne ;
Maruyama Rentschler,Jun Erik
This paper provides a high-level
assessment of Vietnam's sea dike system and its
prescribed dike safety standards. The assessment estimates
that 65 percent of the sea...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9351Date: August 5, 2020Author:
van Ledden,Mathijs ;
Tung,Tran Thanh ;
Nguyen,Dzung Huy ;
Nguyen,Long Thanh
Highly competitive markets or fragmented
insurance markets are usually characterized by some
irrational competition. In less developed non‐life insurance
markets, this...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144668Date: August 4, 2020Author:
Thorburn,Craig W.
Multifamily residential buildings in
earthquake-prone cities across Central Europe, Balkans, and
Central Asia have proved to be vulnerable and have revealed
several...
Type: ReportReport#: 152338Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Markhvida,Maryia
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