The City of Yokohama offers useful
lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable
urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic
growth and a sharp...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131973Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Okazawa,Yuko ;
Levine,Daniel
The Tanzania Urban Resilience Program
(TURP) was established in 2016 as a partnership between the
Government of Tanzania (GoT), the World Bank Group, and the
UK Department...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 132143Date: November 1, 2018
Most developing countries have only
sparse local wind data. While this may be sufficient for
regional weather forecasting, neither the data quality nor
its geographic...
Type: ESMAP PaperReport#: 132951Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Hansen,Soeren Bo Krohn
As urban growth and development continue
at a breathtaking pace across the world, cities are
increasingly bearing the brunt of conflicts, crises and
disasters, which...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 131856Date: November 1, 2018Author:
The World Bank ;
UNESCO
The Country Opinion Survey in Ethiopia
assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better
understanding of how stakeholders in Ethiopia perceive the
WBG. It provides...
Type: ReportReport#: 143156Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Felzer,Sharon
This story highlights the technical
advances, financial innovation, and political leadership
that Pacific Island countries are spearheading in the fight
against climate...
A key challenge in Nepal is the
intersection of predictable chronic or seasonal poverty
andvulnerability, with rapid-onset and acute shocks. Nepal
in the last few decades...
Type: Working PaperReport#: AUS0000471Date: November 1, 2018Author:
Slater, Rachel ;
Ghimire, Anita ;
Baur, Dani
Nature based landslide risk management
project is implemented with an objective to raise awareness
and deepen the knowledge on the role of nature-based
solutions for...
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#: 131842Date: October 25, 2018
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in
China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper
provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly
shaped the...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8620Date: October 22, 2018Author:
Xu,L. Colin ;
Yang,Li
An assessment of food security early
warning systems (EWSs) was conducted to improve food
security and resilience in East and Southern Africa (ESA).
The study aimed...
In many ways, this was a fitting place
to launch our Human Capital Index to help make the case for
those investments. One of the key components of the Index,
and our...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 132882Date: October 14, 2018Author:
Kim,Jim Yong
This is a statement by Dr. Bandar M.H.
Hajjar, President of the Islamic Development Bank Group, at
the ninety-eighth meeting of the Development Committee on
October...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131013Date: October 13, 2018
This is a statement by Subhash Chandra
Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs Ministry of
Finance on behalf of India representing the Constituency of
Bangladesh,...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131018Date: October 13, 2018
This is a statement by Angel Gurria,
Secretary-General of the Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development, at the ninety-eighth meeting
of the Development...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131028Date: October 13, 2018
This is a statement by H.E. Nicolas
Dujovne, Treasury Minister of Argentina, on behalf of
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, at
the ninety-eighth...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131034Date: October 13, 2018
This is a statement by Mukhisa Kituyi,
Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade
and Development, at the ninety-eighth meeting of the
Development Committee...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131033Date: October 13, 2018
This is a statement by H.E. Jiayi Zou,
Vice Minister of Finance, on behalf of The People’s Republic
of China, at the ninety-eighth meeting of the Development
Committee...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 131025Date: October 13, 2018
The development objective of the
Reconstruction and Economic Recovery Project for Mali is to
rehabilitate basic infrastructure and restore productive
activities of communities...
This paper examines how temporary
exposure to a different ethnic region affects national
integration using original survey data from participants in
Africa’s largest...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8606Date: October 9, 2018Author:
Okunogbe,Oyebola Motunrayo
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