The forum on financial protection
against natural disasters in Central Asia took place in
Almaty, Kazakhstan, on February 26 to 27, 2019. Organized by
the World Bank...
Type: ProceedingsReport#: 143684Date: February 27, 2019Author:
Alton,Martin Luis ;
Skalon,Tatiana ;
Takeuchi,Ko ;
Zharylgassova,Aigul ;
Himmelfarb,Anne
Somalia is highly data-deprived, leaving
policy makers to operate in a statistical vacuum. To
overcome this challenge, the World Bank implemented wave 2
of the Somalia...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 134661Date: February 14, 2019Author:
Pape,Utz Johann
Somalia is highly data-deprived, leaving
policy makers to operate in a statistical vacuum. To
overcome this challenge, the World Bank implemented wave 2
of the Somali...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8735Date: February 12, 2019Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Wollburg,Philip Randolph
In many places around the world, human
activity has developed in areas vulnerable to natural
hazards. Currently, floods are the leading cause of natural
disaster fatalities...
Type: ReportReport#: 148640Date: February 1, 2019Author:
Van Berchum,Erik Christiaan
The Country Opinion Survey in Macedonia,
former Yugoslav Republic assists the World Bank Group (WBG)
in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in
Macedonia...
As a result of extraordinary rains in
May 2014, Serbia was affected by the most severe flooding in
120 years. The disaster affected more than 1.6 million
people (22...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157234Date: February 1, 2019
The Country Opinion Survey in Congo
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Congo perceive the WBG.
It provides the...
Type: ReportReport#: 143129Date: February 1, 2019Author:
Felzer,Sharon
Traditional risk assessments use asset
losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a
disaster. This paper proposes an expanded risk assessment
based on a framework...
Report#: WPS8723Date: January 31, 2019Author:
Walsh,Brian James ;
Hallegatte,Stephane
Myanmar, the largest country in
Southeast Asia, has the least developed economy in the
region(UNDP 2013) despite having some abundant natural
resources and a relatively...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134197Date: January 30, 2019Author:
Lazarus,Kate M. ;
Cardinale,Pablo ;
Corbett,Matthew ;
Lin,Naung San ;
Noeske,Tiffany Kay Hacker
The Philippines, as one of the most
disaster-prone countries in the world, requires considerable
fiscal resources to support rapid response and recovery
after severe...
Type: CorrespondenceReport#: 136353Date: January 30, 2019
The development objective of the
Uttarakhand Disaster Recovery Project for India is to
restore housing, rural connectivity, and build resilience of
communities in Uttarakhand...
An initiative of the Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and UK Aid,the
Challenge Fund (CF) aims to connect innovation to local
contexts to help...
This report provides a community
perspective on priorities for future collaboration and
investment in the development and use of disaster risk
information for developing...
Type: ReportReport#: 134115Date: January 25, 2019Author:
Phillips, Emma ;
Murnane, Richard ;
Ali, Amal
IBRD provides regular updates of the
lending rates and spreads applicable to its financing
products as set out in the terms of each product. This note
summarizes the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 134099Date: January 24, 2019
This study analyzes whether subjective
well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful
uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically
used in analyses...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8705Date: January 16, 2019Author:
Witte,Caroline T. ;
Burger,Martijn J. ;
Ianchovichina,Elena
Evidence-driven disaster risk management
(DRM) relies upon many different data types, information
sources, and types of models to be effective. Tasks such as
weather...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 133787Date: January 16, 2019Author:
Deparday,Vivien ;
Gevaert,Caroline Margaux ;
Molinario,Giuseppe Maria ;
Soden,Robert John ;
Balog-Way,Simone Andrea Breunig
The Internal Audit Vice Presidency (IAD)
provides independent and objective assurance to Senior
Management and the Board of the World Bank Group (WBG) on
the effectiveness...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 134713Date: January 15, 2019
On September 6, 2017 the Access to
Information Committee endorsed a proposal by the World Bank
Archives Unit to proactively disclose information in
collections of immense...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 133759Date: January 9, 2019
Emerging market countries require
substantial foreign investment for development, economic
growth,and poverty alleviation. There are multiple
challenges to attracting...
Type: BriefReport#: 133876Date: January 8, 2019Author:
Ramachandran,Vijay ;
Gelb,Alan Harold ;
Buehler,Martin Reto
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