Afghanistan is highly prone to intense and recurring natural hazards such as flooding, earthquakes, avalanches, landslides, and droughts due to its geographical location and years of environmental degradation,...
Date: July 6, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More than 800 participants from civil society, national and local governments, academia, the private sector and international organizations from around the world gathered in Brussels from 6-8 June 2017...
Date: June 27, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved three grants totaling US$80 million for hurricane recovery efforts. The additional financing aims to restore the quality...
Date: June 14, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
First grant of a US$100 million package for long-term reconstruction WASHINGTON, June 8, 2017— The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$20 million grant to rehabilitate roads...
Date: June 8, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, May 30, 2017—The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today approved a US$50 million emergency project - Somalia Emergency Drought Response and Recovery Project (SEDRP, the Project)...
Date: May 30, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 28, 2017.- More than 3.8 million Peruvians will benefit from a new integrated water management project financed with a US$ 40 million loan approved today by the World Bank Board...
Date: April 28, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Soaring global temperatures and runaway urbanization are among the key factors making natural disasters more intense, more frequent, and more devastating by the day. The costs are enormous. Every year,...
Date: January 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Blog #1 - Striving, struggling and thriving in Nepal Lahjung Bhotia is from Hatiya, Sankhuwasabha, a remote mountainous district in Eastern Nepal. She and her husband rent land and grow black cardamom...
Date: December 5, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Human and economic costs of disasters underestimated by up to 60 percent MARRAKESH, November 14, 2016– The impact of extreme natural disasters is equivalent to a global $520 billion loss in annual consumption,...
Date: November 14, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
In 2013, an estimated one million Filipinos were plunged into poverty after Typhoon Haiyan sapped $12.9 billion from the national economy and destroyed over a million homes. No sooner had the 2010 Cyclone...
Date: November 14, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
More than nearly any country in the world, Bangladesh is highly vulnerable to the steadily growing effects of climate change. The South, Southwest, and Southeast coastal regions are increasingly susceptible...
Date: October 11, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MR. THEIS: Good morning. I'm David Theis, press secretary for the World Bank. We'll have brief opening remarks from the World Bank president Dr. Jim Yong Kim. And then, we'll turn...
Date: October 6, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Good morning. Welcome to the 2016 World Bank/IMF Annual Meetings. I first want to say a few words about Haiti, which was devastated by Hurricane Matthew. Our thoughts are with the people of Haiti, many...
Date: October 6, 2016
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
How natural disasters are paid for makes a big difference to the total economic cost. Ministries of finance receive countless financial protection proposals from reinsurers and banks, but often lack the...
Date: September 27, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
SKOPJE, August 8, 2016 - The World Bank is saddened by the loss of lives during the heavy rains and floods that affected the Skopje region over the weekend. We express our deepest sympathies to the...
Date: August 8, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
On the bright winter morning of 26th January, 2001, as India celebrated Republic Day, a massive earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter Scale shook the Kutch region of eastern Gujarat. The shock...
Date: August 5, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2016 — Communities hit hard by the floods and landslides that devastated areas of Myanmar in 2015 will receive assistance for resilient road reconstruction, livelihoods support, and...
Date: July 14, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Activities targeted at natural disaster resilience and responsiveness WASHINGTON, DC, June 30, 2016 – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$50 million loan to the Government...
Date: June 29, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Last month a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador left over 600 people dead and almost thirty thousand injured, with economic damages projected at more than $3 billion. Unfortunately, events like these...
Date: May 16, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In Samoa recently, villagers gathered on a roadside overlooking the ocean to examine maps on an iPad. Since 2012, this strip of coastline – long prized for its fishing and other resources – has suffered...
Date: April 29, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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