The food, fuel, and financial crisis in
2007-08 pulled over 4 million into poverty (3 percentage
points increase in the poverty rate) in Bangladesh. Many
poor households...
Type: BriefReport#: 135278Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Anwar,Rubaba ;
Cho,Yoonyoung
Since its establishment in 2011, OpenDRI
has successfully applied the open databased approaches
called for in the Sendai Framework to address the challenges
of reducing...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 139462Date: December 31, 2018
MAS Kreeda is a sportwear manufacturing
unit of MAS Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, an IFC client company, and
member of both IFC's SheWorks Sri Lanka partnership and
IFC's Global...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 134213Date: December 31, 2018
This brief is part of a quarterly series
of knowledge products that the World Bank and the European
Union are producing in support of the economic convergence
of the...
Type: ReportReport#: 150346Date: December 31, 2018
Nature-based infrastructure (NBI) or
building with nature is an approach that uses natural
systems to provide critical services, either as stand-alone,
or hybrid green-grey...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163331Date: December 19, 2018Author:
Jongman,Brenden
Strengthening the financial resilience
of ASEAN countries to disaster and climate shocks is
critical to support their economic growth, fiscal stability,
human development,...
This document provides an overall guide
to distribution of the design typologies in respect of
seismic risk and climatic conditions, which determine in
which provinces...
In September 2017, Mexico was struck by
two powerful earthquakes: the Tehuantepec event on September
7, a M8.2 instraslab earthquake approximately 87 km south of
Pijiapan,...
The country opinion survey in Dominican
Republic assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a
better understanding of how stakeholders in Dominican
Republic perceive...
Type: ReportReport#: 143410Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The Bagan Disaster Risk Management Plan
(Bagan DRMP) is an initiative of the Government of Myanmar
(GOM) to: understand the risks facing the Bagan Cultural,
Heritage...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132874Date: December 1, 2018
Development break-throughs based on the
Industrial Revolution 4.0 to increase productivity, quality,
efficiency and competitiveness of the economy. Achieve rapid
and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 133583Date: December 1, 2018
The Country Opinion Survey in Croatia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Croatia perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: ReportReport#: 143131Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Felzer,Sharon
The Sava River basin in Southeastern
Europe, covers an area of approximately 97,700 square
kilometers including large parts of five Sava riparian
countries. The objective...
This disaster risk finance country note
was prepared within the Uzbekistan strengthening disaster
resilience technical assistance. It aims at: (a) raising
awareness...
Type: ReportReport#: 149232Date: December 1, 2018Author:
Takeuchi,Ko ;
Skalon,Tatiana ;
Gurenko,Eugene N.
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank at
Argentina Investment Conference. He believes in the
leadership of this country...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 132902Date: November 29, 2018Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
Too often governments and communities
are adversely affected by disasters simply because the most
basic information for resilience is missing or inaccessible.
For example:...
Type: ReportReport#: AUS0000524Date: November 19, 2018
This paper studies the evolution of
three macroeconomic variables (namely current fiscal
expenditures, public debt, and consumer-price inflation)
around the time of...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8647Date: November 15, 2018Author:
Lederman,Daniel ;
Rojas Guzman,Claudio Jeremias
If trade tensions between the United
States and certain trading partners escalate into a
full-blown trade war, what should developing countries do?
Using a global, general-equilibrium...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8640Date: November 7, 2018Author:
Devarajan,Shantayanan ;
Go,Delfin Sia ;
Lakatos,Csilla ;
Robinson,Sherman ;
Thierfelder,Karen E.
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