Rapid urbanization and overconsumption
can threaten the natural environment, resource efficiency
and resilience of a region, which are essential components
of urban...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 136462Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Global Platform for Sustainable Cities ;
World Bank
Tanzania Urban Resilience Program (TURP)
was established in 2016 from a partnership between the
United Kingdom’s Department for International
Development (DFID)...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 179708Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Anderson,Edward Charles ;
Dickson,Eric ;
Coward,Darragh Amelia
Since 2006, Ministry of urban
development, Government of India has initiated various
capacity building initiatives with a focus on development of
Indian heritage cities....
Word War second left Japan crippled,
affecting its economy, governance, demography, settlements,
social well-being, and others. However, Japan used this as
an opportunity...
Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series)Report#: 137934Date: January 1, 2019Author:
Jain,Vibhu ;
Arai,Yuko
Developing countries are often the
hardest hit by floods, cyclones, droughts, and earthquakes,
yet are also the least equipped to understand or address
these risks....
Lake Toba is a unique natural asset of
global significance located in the North Sumatra Province of
Indonesia. The long-term economic and environmental value of
Lake...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 139829Date: December 31, 2018
Water supply and sanitation (WSS)
utilities are expected to become increasingly susceptible to
the expected impacts of climate change. WSS utility planners
and engineers...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 133227Date: December 29, 2018Author:
Bonzanigo,Laura ;
Rozenberg,Julie ;
Felter,Gregory Calner ;
Lempert,Robert J. ;
Reed,Patrick Michael
This paper uses the framework of Cuberes
and Teignier (2017) to study the quantitative effects of
gender gaps in entrepreneurship and workforce participation
in Mexico.The...
Type: ReportReport#: 136522Date: December 19, 2018Author:
Cuberes,David ;
Teignier,Marc
GEF’s 2020 strategy emphasizes support
for the transformational change needed to create
environmental impacts on a broad scale; more specifically,
it supports broad...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132953Date: December 14, 2018Author:
Global Platform for Sustainable Cities ;
World Bank
Within the framework of its urban
transport and mobility pillar, the Africa Transport Policy
Program (SSATP) launched an activity to support eight pilot
countries (Ivory...
Type: ReportReport#: 168384Date: December 1, 2018Author:
World Bank
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.
The urban transport pillar of the Africa
Transport Policy Program (SSATP) launched a project to
support eight pilot countries (Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia,
Guinea, Ghana,...
Type: ReportReport#: 168296Date: November 30, 2018Author:
Tessema,Zemedkun Girma ;
Diouf,Ibou ;
Stucki, Martin ;
Niina,Kaori
Within the framework of urban transport
and mobility pillar of the African Transport Policy Program
(SSATP), the team launched an activity to support eight
pilot countries...
Type: ReportReport#: 168297Date: November 30, 2018Author:
Tessema,Zemedkun Girma ;
Diouf,Ibou ;
Stucki, Martin ;
Niina,Kaori
In June 2011, the International Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (the ‘Bank’ or ‘IBRD’) and
the Socialist Republic of Vietnam signed the Loan Agreement
for the...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132216Date: November 16, 2018
The Urban Water Supply Project for
Congo, Democratic Republic of is to increase sustainable
access to water in selected urban areas and improve the
efficiency of Régie...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132211Date: November 16, 2018
The Second Participatory Rural
Investment Project for Bolivia aims to pilot the
strengthening of institutional arrangements between the
national and Eligible Subnational...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132209Date: November 16, 2018
This report provides the findings of an
administrative inquiry by the World Bank Group Integrity
Vice Presidency (INT) into allegations of misconduct in
connection with...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 132217Date: November 16, 2018
This brief contains eight FAQs about the
‘Promising Progress: A Diagnostic of Water
Supply, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Poverty in
Bangladesh’ report, a data-driven...
Type: BriefReport#: 179405Date: November 14, 2018Author:
World Bank
This document focuses on the Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT) development along the BRT Phase 1 Corridor,
applying a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) approach to
the redevelopment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135866Date: November 1, 2018
This document focuses on the Bus Rapid
Transit (BRT) development along the BRT Phase 1 Corridor,
applying a Transit Oriented Development (TOD) approach to
the redevelopment...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 135866Date: November 1, 2018
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