These remarks were delivered by the
World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, at a Media Roundtable in
Washington, D.C., on November 12, 2013. Mr. Kim begins by
offering...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101901Date: November 12, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
Some of the headings included in this
newsletter of the World Bank in India are: 24X7 water supply
under the Karnataka Urban Water Sector Improvement Project;
How India...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 85512Date: November 1, 2013
Development banks - whether global,
regional or national, or multilateral, bilateral, or
domestic - can play an important role in financing
climate-related investment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112829Date: November 1, 2013Author:
Patel,Shilpa ;
Music,Rusmir
The international community recognizes
the need to join forces to avert dangerous climate change.
This requires mobilizing financial resources from a wide
range of sources,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 144283Date: November 1, 2013
In Indonesia, about sixty million people
lack access to electricity, with much of this population
living in remote islands. Committed to scaling up energy
access, the...
Type: BriefReport#: 84314Date: November 1, 2013Author:
Sahai, Dhruva
It is predicted that the effects of
climate change, especially extreme floods and droughts, will
significantly affect the world's fragile and least
developed countries....
Type: BriefReport#: 83718Date: November 1, 2013Author:
Rogers,David ;
Sieghart,Lia Carol
The Resilience in Education Settings
(RES)-Research training module, designed by the Education
Resilience Approaches (ERA) Program, builds on the
capacities of academics...
This paper examines International
Finance Corporation’s (IFC’s) climate-related portfolio,
with a view to discerning trends in the nature of the
activities that have...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 112819Date: November 1, 2013Author:
Miller,Stephanie J. ;
Widge,Vikram ;
Patel,Shilpa ;
Music,Rusmir
The World Bank has recently developed a
method to evaluate the effects of climate change on six
hydrological indicators across 8951 basins of the world. The
indicators...
Type: Journal ArticleReport#: 102490Date: October 23, 2013Author:
Strzepek,Kenneth ;
Jacobsen,Michael Peter Steen ;
Brent Boehlert ;
Neumann,James L.
Adopted in 1987, the Montreal Protocol
on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Laye lregally enforces
the phase-out of the production and use of ozone depleting
substances...
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