This report contains the World Bank
Group Boards' calendar for the period February - April
2014, specifying the Boards' engagements, such as
meetings and briefings,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 84806Date: February 17, 2014
Climate change affects rural
women's and men's ability to secure their
livelihoods. At the same time, it poses new challenges for
the agricultural sector in reducing...
This paper is part of a larger effort to
document, assess, and promote scalable models and approaches
to empower poor communities to manage a climate and disaster
risk...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 85007Date: February 1, 2014Author:
Arnold, Margaret ;
Mearns, Robin ;
Oshima, Kaori ;
Prasad, Vivek
Although Morocco has good water and
sanitation infrastructure, service delivery in peri-urban
areas remains a challenge. More than 1 million people
currently lack access...
In Kenya only 1.4 million of the 13
million rural residents with access to improved water supply
are served by municipal water services providers.
Community-run, small-scale...
In support of the partnership for market
readiness work on helping the emergence of credible,
consistent, and compatible market-based infrastructure
across countries,...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 95195Date: February 1, 2014
The growing demand for construction
materials in South Tarawa, a remote atoll in the South
Pacific, provides an example of the environmental and social
challenges associated...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 94659Date: February 1, 2014Author:
Babinard,Julie ;
Bennett,Christopher R. ;
Faiz,Asif ;
Hatziolos,Marea Eleni ;
Somali, Anil
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank.
Press Conference at the World Economic Forum of the taking
action on climate...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101919Date: January 23, 2014Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
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