Building Urban Resilience in East Asia
is a World Bank program that aims to increase the resilience
of cities to disasters and the impacts of climate change by
using...
The President of the World bank Dr. Jim
Youg Kim pointed the serious consequences of climate change
to the global economic outlook of failing to tackle the
challenges....
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 101859Date: February 16, 2013Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This paper uses data from eight
different consumption questionnaires randomly assigned to
4,000 households in Tanzania to obtain evidence on the
nature of measurement...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS6372Date: February 1, 2013Author:
Beegle,Kathleen G. ;
De Weerdt,Joachim ;
Friedman,Jed ;
Gibson,John David
In this issue: cities: planning,
coordinating, and financing for a better future; measuring
inequality of opportunity; breaking out of the middle-income
trap; real-time...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 77977Date: February 1, 2013
Infrastructure projects pose an impact
evaluation challenge because of the difficulty in
eliminating endogeneity concerns. The existing
infrastructure impact evaluation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135973Date: February 1, 2013
The annual performance report (APR) of
the global environment facility (GEF), prepared each year by
the GEF independent evaluation office, provides a detailed
overview...
This brief includes the following
headlines: does the Bank finance commercial logging in
ancient primary forests? What is the Bank’s position on
commercial logging in...
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