The current Turkish Cypriot (TC)
agricultural support scheme is highly distortive, as it does
not incentivize farmers to increase productivity and results
in higher...
Type: BriefReport#: 153968Date: October 28, 2020Author:
Heinz,Marcus Bernhard
Social protection cash transfer programs
are increasingly being used to respond to covariate shocks,
including most recently and prominently in response to the
COVID-19...
This project, ‘Institutional Capacity
Review and Target Setting for road geohazards Management’
aims at assessing the current capability of various key
institutional...
Japan is one of the most geohazard-prone
countries in the world. Typhoons and heavy rainfall,
especially during the rainy season every year, often cause
geohazard events....
Type: ReportReport#: 153708Date: October 16, 2020Author:
Greenwood,Ian Douglas ;
Mori, Mikihiro ;
Inagaki, Yutaka ;
Tanaka, Kenichi ;
Hosoda, Toshiaki ;
Tauchi, Hiroaki ;
Castelar Contreras,Saul Antonio ;
Komata, Shinjuro
This handbook outlines an approach to
proactively manage the risks of geohazards on roads, road
users, and the people living near and affected by road. This
handbook...
Type: ReportReport#: 153691Date: October 16, 2020Author:
Greenwood,Ian Douglas ;
Mori,Mikihiro
This note presents the results of the
second round of a nationally representative telephone survey
(HFPS). Data collection took place between July 20 and
August 14,...
Type: BriefReport#: 156729Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Tiberti,Marco ;
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Costantini,Marco ;
Koncobo,Zakaria ;
Tiendrebeogo,Adama
Globally, floods are the most frequent
and damaging natural hazard. To help manage the impact of
flooding on people and economies, the World Bank provides
technical...
This paper revisits the topic and
updates the analysis applying the same methodology to data
from 2017. The fiscal reforms that took place during the
period covered...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 151788Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Tiwari,Sailesh ;
Amir, Hidayat ;
Setiawan,Imam ;
Moechtar,Ali
Fires cause up to 180,000 deaths
globally per year. This is more than triple the annual
average number of fatalities due to all-natural hazards.
Urban fire risk can...
Type: ReportReport#: 153716Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Moullier,Thomas ;
Sakoda,Keiko ;
Meacham,Brian Jay ;
Abrassart,Theresa Maria Josette
This note presents the results of the
second round of a nationally representative telephone survey
(HFPS). Data collection took place between July 20 and
August 14,...
Type: BriefReport#: 156729Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Tiberti,Marco ;
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Costantini,Marco ;
Koncobo,Zakaria ;
Tiendrebeogo,Adama
This note highlights the critical
contribution that social protection can make to a broader
disaster recovery effort by helping directly to
disaster-affected households....
Type: Working PaperReport#: 153460Date: September 29, 2020Author:
Bowen,Thomas Vaughan ;
Dreschler, Mareile
Japan has long suffered from
intermittent but devastating natural disasters. Over the
years, the country has developed a comprehensive disaster
risk management (DRM)...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 153461Date: September 29, 2020Author:
Kawasoe,Yasuhiro ;
Siercke,Guillermo A. ;
Kusakari,Yasuko ;
Bowen,Thomas Vaughan ;
Makino,Yuka ;
Mori,Hideki
The needs of societies for more accurate
and reliable weather, climate, and hydrological ‘hydromet’
information are at the highest levels today. Weather
events–including...
Type: ReportReport#: 153447Date: September 29, 2020Author:
Suwa,Makoto ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Siercke,Guillermo A. ;
Kull,Daniel Werner
This toolkit was conceived for the use
of two groups of World Bank Group (WBG) staff and
consultants. The primary target users consist of social
protection and labor...
Type: ReportReport#: 153452Date: September 29, 2020Author:
Mori,Hideki ;
Makino,Yuka ;
Nishikawa Chavez,Kenichi Victor ;
Shaw,Rajib ;
Kryeziu,Adea ;
Dillard,Raiden C. ;
Bowen,Thomas Vaughan ;
Maher,Barry Patrick ;
Hobson,Matthew Liam ;
Lopez,Ana Veronica ;
Vargas,Erika ;
Pereira Guimaraes Leite,Phillippe George ;
Abel,Simeon Joachim ;
Webster,Douglas Richard ;
Kalvatcheva,Galina Georgieva ;
Talamantes, Llanco
Established in June 2017, the city
resilience program (CRP) empowers cities to pursue
investments which build greater resilience to climate and
disaster risks, and to...
Type: ReportReport#: 152892Date: September 11, 2020
Digital elevation models (DEMs)
represents the elevation of the earth’s surface in the form
of a digital image where each pixel contains an elevation
value of the center...
Type: ReportReport#: 152896Date: September 11, 2020Author:
Croneborg,Louise E. M. ;
Saito,Keiko ;
Matera,Michel ;
McKeown,Don ;
Van Aardt,Jan Andreas
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and
its economic and social effects on households have created
an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate
the social...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and
its economic and social effects on households have created
an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate
the social...
A behavioral experiment was conducted
between October 2016 and June 2018 to test the impact of a
growth mindset lesson plan on learning outcomes. The
intervention was...
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