Since January 2014, the World Bank Group’s (WBG’s) finance and markets global practice has provided technical assistance to establish a crop and livestock insurance program in Kenya. Led by the WBG’s disaster...
Type: BriefReport#: 121775Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Mahul,Olivier ;
Maher,Barry Patrick
In Uganda, third northern Uganda social action fund (NUSAF III) makes use of social safety nets to invest in the livelihoods of poor households, and it specifically includes a disaster risk finance (DRF)...
Type: BriefReport#: 121776Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Maher,Barry Patrick ;
Poulter,Richard Andrew
Flooding has become a major problem in Senegal’s cities, a trend exacerbated by rural urban migration and a lack of access to drainage and sewage infrastructure. Recognizing these risks, the global facility...
Type: BriefReport#: 115241Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Kane,Isabelle Celine
Following extremely heavy rainfall in May 2014, Serbia experienced its most severe flooding in more than a century. In the aftermath, the government conducted a recovery needs assessment (RNA) with support...
Mobile banking has revolutionized the way people bank. By using cell phones, a range of financial services, including person-to-person transfers, can be easily and safely accessed wherever there is cell...
This Climate Technology Program (CTP) brief focuses on the growing opportunities of the clean technology sector in Ghana. The World Bank Group is showing that a business development model that grew out...
Type: BriefReport#: 115294Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Diamond,John Michael
In 2014, AMRET launched the first stage of its mobile financial services (MFS) program in Cambodia, called mobile tellers. The mobile teller provides door-2-door account registration, savings collection,...
Type: BriefReport#: 117396Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Biallas,Margarete O.
Access to finance is a challenge in Bangladesh, where only 40 percent of the adult population holds a bank account at a formal financial institution. This is a major problem for the working poor, many...
As developing countries look for ways to achieve sustainable energy services, which is essential to lift people out of poverty, the big challenge centers around providing access for all while avoiding...
Type: BriefReport#: 115065Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Howells,Mark Idwal ;
Rogner, Hans Holger ;
Mentis, Dimitris ;
Broad, Oliver
The tradeoffs between energy and water have been gaining international attention in recent years as resource demand grows, climate change impacts manifest, and governments struggle to ensure reliable supply....
Type: BriefReport#: 115067Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Rodriguez,Diego Juan ;
Delgado,Anna ;
Sohns,Antonia Averill
Accurate forecasts of electricity demand inform investment decisions about power generation and supporting network infrastructure. Of major interest to energy policymakers, power utilities, and private...
Type: BriefReport#: 113109Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Steinbuks,Jevgenijs ;
De Wit,Joerie Frederik ;
Kochnakyan,Artur ;
Foster,Vivien
In 2008, Morocco’s National Ports Agency launched a project to create a national single-window platform for Morocco’s foreign tr ade. The process was long and difficult, and its success is owing in large...
Type: BriefReport#: 113167Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Hafsi,Nadia
After catastrophic flooding in January 2005, the government of Guyana launched the Conservancy Adaptation Project to address flood risks in the country’s coastal areas, disseminating vital technical information...
This brief talks about Sanasa agriculture insurance in Sri Lanka. Historically, agriculture has always been a key economic activity in Sri Lanka, employing over 30 percent of the labor force. As Sri Lanka...
PlaNet Guarantee (PG) activities started in 2012 with index insurance for maize and groundnuts. The first year the price of the product was very high and few farmers bought the product. The product was...
Taking advantage of recent Enterprise Surveys data, this note aims to provide a first set of observations on the performance and regulatory constraints of Malaysia’s exporting firms. The findings provide...
Type: BriefReport#: 138327Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Amin,Mohammad ;
Arlet,Jean Nicolas ;
Ulku,Hulya
This pilot project tested an urban flood protection system that is based on rain measurements from cellular phone networks, which monitors rainfall via loss of network signals to provide a cost-effective,...
This brief talks about weather index insurance in Rwanda. Agriculture in Rwanda accounts for one-third of Rwanda’s Gross domestic product (GDP) and constitutes the main economic activity for rural households...
The project in question is the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project, locally known as Jeevika, translated variously as livelihoods or livelihoods expansion. Jeevika is a very large-scale, community-based poverty...
Energy itself does not meet the needs of energy-poor households, businesses, and communities. Rather, it is the services that energy enables—such as lighting,telecommunications, refrigeration, cooking,...
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