Despite sustained economic growth over
the past two decades, Sub-Saharan Africa faces massive
challenges and significant gaps in many development
outcomes. Although...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119849Date: September 20, 2017Author:
Blimpo,Moussa Pouguinimpo ;
Minges,Michael ;
Kouame,Wilfried Anicet Kouakou ;
Azomahou,Theophile Thomas ;
Lartey,Emmanuel Kwasi Koranteng ;
Meniago,Christelle ;
Buitano,Mapi M. ;
Zeufack,Albert G.
The Disaster Risk Financing and
Insurance Program (DRFIP) helps Middle Income Countries
develop and implement comprehensive financial protection
strategies that bring...
Type: BriefReport#: 119728Date: September 14, 2017
Disasters—and their economic and social
impacts—are on the rise. While disasters do not
discriminate, they tend to have the greatest impact on the
poorest. These households...
Type: BriefReport#: 119729Date: September 14, 2017
The Kyrgyz Republic is located in a
highly seismic region subjected to devastating earthquakes
that have caused loss of life, destroyed homes and ruined
livelihoods...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 123049Date: September 13, 2017
The combination of conflict, food
insecurity, and displacement generates competing claims for
financial resources that stretch the donors' ability to
provide funding...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8191Date: September 12, 2017Author:
Gigliarano,Chiara ;
Verme,Paolo
On September 8, 2017, the International
Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) Board of
Governors adopted resolution number six hundred and fifty
five. It was...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 119672Date: September 8, 2017
In just the last 36 years, Malawi has
experienced eight major droughts, affecting more than
24million people. The impact, frequency, and spread of
drought in Malawi...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 120614Date: September 1, 2017
This note presents a preliminary
assessment of the fiscal impacts of natural disasters in
Armenia and the current state of the country’s financial
protection capacity....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 126319Date: September 1, 2017
The PCRAFI Program is a comprehensive,
regional effort to increase financial resilience to climate
and disaster risks in the Pacific through the development of
a regional...
The Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance
Program (DRFIP), through its Disaster Risk Financing
Analytics (DRF Analytics) function, aims to strengthen the
financial management...
Increasing public finances resilience to
disaster risk is part of priority 3 of the 2015-2030 Sendai
framework for disaster risk management and the operational
framework...
Type: ReportReport#: 149831Date: September 1, 2017Author:
Villalobos,Jose Angel ;
Navarro,Zoila ;
Van Der Borght,Rafael ;
Aguirre Tellez,Laura Elisa ;
Butron Calderon,Luigi
The goal of this report is to present
the results from a unified conceptual framework so as to
evaluate the cost-effectiveness and different trade-offs
involved in conflict...
Report#: 123659Date: September 1, 2017Author:
Mueller,Hannes Felix
The objective of the Damage Assessment
(DA) of selected cities is to provide information onthe
effects of the current crisis on population, physical
infrastructure,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 121943Date: September 1, 2017Author:
Aoun,Joy-Fares ;
Arshad,Raja Rehan
In recent years, the international
community has increasingly recognized the relevance of
disaster risk financing in the global agenda of disaster
risk management (DRM)....
Type: ReportReport#: 149830Date: September 1, 2017Author:
Villalobos,Jose Angel ;
Navarro,Zoila ;
Van Der Borght,Rafael ;
Aguirre Tellez,Laura Elisa ;
Butron Calderon,Luigi
Education is central to improving human
welfare both inherently and instrumentally, and yet there
has never been a World Development Report (WDR) on
education. The WDR...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 121119Date: September 1, 2017Author:
Commins,Stephen
A popular identification strategy in
non-experimental panel data uses instrumental variables
constructed by interacting exogenous but potentially
spurious time series...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8171Date: August 23, 2017Author:
Christian,Paul J. ;
Barrett,Christopher B.
Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle
East and North Africa (MENA) region, has been in active
conflict for more than 28 months. An estimated 18.8 million
Yemenis...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 119035Date: August 16, 2017
This document presents a five-step
process to support World Bank Task Team Leaders (TTLs) in
the design of evaluations for resilience-building
projects/programs. Steps...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119937Date: August 1, 2017
This is a background paper to the
Pacific Possible report. Climate change and natural
disasters represent major threats to Pacific Island
countries. The report estimates...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 119111Date: August 1, 2017
This Executive Directors' strategic
engagements work program covers FY18 Q1, Q2, and updated
reports and other documents to be circulated for information
for FY18 Q1.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 117999Date: August 1, 2017
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