This study, led by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) teams working on the Disaster-FCV Nexus thematic area and the Hydromet Services and Early Warning Systems thematic area,...
Type: ReportReport#: 192726Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank ;
GFDRR
The basis for safe, accessible, appropriate, and durable development are a well defined building regulatory framework, together with comprehensive land use planning and building controls and standards....
Type: ReportReport#: 192730Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Robert Reid ;
Keiko Sakoda ;
Davison Muchadenyika ;
Moses Kibirige
The report illustrates the results of a series of simulations of the spread of COVID-19 disease in refugee camps using a demo set of data from the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. The purpose of this exercise...
Type: ReportReport#: 192732Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Carlos Hernandez-Suarez ;
Paolo Verme ;
Sergiy Radyakin
Forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. By the end of 2022, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced, having escaped conflict, violence, or persecution. Low- and...
Type: ReportReport#: 192731Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Paolo Verme ;
Paola Elice
Established in 2006, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is a global partnership that supports developing countries and communities reduce risk, prepare for, and recover from...
Type: ReportReport#: 195037Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
In recent years, forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. Every year, more people are forced to flee their homes to safer shelter, either within their countries’ borders or in...
Type: BriefReport#: 192735Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Forced displacement has become a phenomenon of tragic proportions. By the end of 2022, more than 108 million people were forcibly displaced, having escaped conflict, violence, or persecution. Low- and...
Type: ReportReport#: 192731Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Paolo Verme ;
Paola Elice
The Country Opinion Survey in the Dominican Republic assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in the Dominican Republic perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic...
Type: ReportReport#: 193948Date: July 25, 2024Author:
World Bank
Governments and nongovernment organizations around the world utilize Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges. Despite consistent evidence...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192750Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Patrick John Barron ;
Patricia Fernandes ;
Stephen Joseph Winkler ;
Michael Woolcock
With about 80 percent of poor households in Timor-Leste dependent on agriculture for their livelihood, it is widely acknowledged that growth in the agriculture sector is an important channel for poverty...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10862Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Francis Addeah Darko ;
Ririn Salwa Purnamasari
Following some strengthening of growth in Europe and Central Asia, Tajikistan has benefitted from it and demonstrated good economic performance last year and in early 2024. As external demand has improved,...
Type: ReportReport#: 192723Date: July 25, 2024Author:
Bakhrom Ziyaev ;
Ilyas Sarsenov ;
Olga Emelyanova ;
Collette Mari Wheeler ;
Vasiliki Papagianni ;
Pietro Calice ;
Alisher Rajabov ;
Anna Sukhova ;
Zuhro Qurbonova ;
Rashad Hasanov ;
Mariana Iootty ;
Stefan Apfalter ;
Firdavs Kabilov
This memorandum provides the quarterly update of IBRD’s lending rates and spreads pursuant to the standard loan pricing as defined in the Bank Policy and Directive Financial Terms and Conditions of Bank...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192784Date: July 24, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper estimates the profitability of inorganic fertilizer use in maize production in Malawi. It employs a two-wave, nationally representative panel of data on smallholder households and plots to estimate...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10859Date: July 24, 2024Author:
Francis Addeah Darko ;
Ricker-Gilbert,Jacob ;
Talip Kilic
This study provides an updated look at Medium-Term Expenditure Frameworks (MTEFs). As the world is emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic, this study suggests that MTEFs responded to the dislocations of the...
Type: ReportReport#: 185579Date: July 24, 2024Author:
Ceren Ozer ;
Stotsky, Janet G. ;
Brumby, Jim ;
Joseph Paul Massad
Using data from a recent EU-SILC module on intergenerational mobility, this policy note explores to what extent the high levels of inequality prevalent in Bulgaria are due to inequality of opportunity,...
This document highlights the interconnectedness of poverty and hunger, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive approach to address both issues. It emphasizes the importance of investing in proven solutions,...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 192830Date: July 24, 2024Author:
Ajay Banga
This paper addresses the question of whether farm input subsidy programs should be targeted at non-poor farmers instead of poor farmers, using a two-wave, nationally representative panel data from Malawi....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10860Date: July 24, 2024Author:
Francis Addeah Darko
Global evidence suggests that land institutions and policies will be critical to help African countries respond to the challenges of climate change, urban expansion, structural transformation, and gender...
Type: ReportReport#: 192713Date: July 24, 2024Author:
Klaus W. Deininger ;
Aparajita Goyal
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