The 6th webinar of the Disaster Risk Financing in Agriculture Series deals with the role of agricultural insurance as a risk transfer instrument. It focuses on applications of micro-level individual farmer...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 202417Date: June 19, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Union of the Comoros (The Comoros) has significant vulnerability to climate change-related risks but has considerable opportunities to strengthen preparedness and resilience against these challenges....
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 202388Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
Certain groups in Croatia still face barriers and challenges in initiating, owning, and scaling a business. Women and people in older cohorts (ages 50–64) represent one of the largest groups of “missing”...
Type: ReportReport#: 202392Date: June 18, 2025Author:
Laco, Matija ;
Sedmak, Martina Sahan ;
Golubovac, Natalija ;
Djati, Fajar Argo ;
Pizarro, Dianna M.
The Union of the Comoros (The Comoros) has significant vulnerability to climate change-related risks but has considerable opportunities to strengthen preparedness and resilience against these challenges....
Type: Country Climate and Development ReportReport#: 202388Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
SMEs may face credit constraints in underdeveloped regions. Small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are key contributors to employment, economic growth, and innovation. However, in many underdeveloped...
Type: ReportReport#: 202665Date: June 18, 2025Author:
Berge, Lars Ivar Oppedal ;
Fiorillo, Paolo
The Ústí nad Labem and Karlovy Vary regions face persistent structural challenges as they transition away from coal-based industries. In response to these challenges, national and EU institutions have...
Type: ReportReport#: 202661Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
Digitalization has become a central feature of our society, influencing everything from business competitiveness to national development strategies. Despite growing investments and interest in promoting...
Type: ReportReport#: 202663Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
The Moravian-Silesian Region lies at the industrial core of the Czech Republic and has historically been dominated by state-run mining and heavy industries, particularly automotive manufacturing. Since...
Type: ReportReport#: 202666Date: June 18, 2025Author:
Pereira-Lopez, Mariana ;
Anderson, Stephen J. ;
Campos, Francisco ;
Spina, Chiara ;
Suhag, Rahul
This report summarizes the results from the first experimental evaluations within the cohesion policy. The report includes policy briefs that summarize studies identifying short-term impacts from policy...
Type: ReportReport#: 202659Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
The development objective of this grant is to provide technical assistance to the Dominican Republic (DR) and Panama in strengthening their cyber resilience capacity, especially in this fast-changing environment.
Type: ReportReport#: 202474Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
Innovation and economic growth are expected to go hand-in-hand and to be driven by close business-science collaboration to transform research into innovation, competitiveness, and productivity. Yet, while...
Type: ReportReport#: 202658Date: June 18, 2025Author:
World Bank
Maintaining and improving the efficiency of Ukraine’s transport system for international trade is vital in supporting the competitiveness of the country in global markets, especially since most of Ukraine’s...
Type: ReportReport#: 202354Date: June 17, 2025Author:
Echeverria, Eduardo Espitia ;
Gauthier, Gregoire F. ;
Turzak, Patrik ;
Ber, Olivier Le ;
Bulakh, Yevhen ;
Shkliar, Andrii ;
Beschastna, Galyna
The ASL, particularly through its regional coordination project, works to establish and
strengthen the network of people and institutions linked to the Program to share ideas,
lessons learned, and best...
Type: ReportReport#: 202375Date: June 17, 2025Author:
World Bank
Two mechanisms have been proposed to explain sex selection in India: son preference in which parents desire a male heir and daughter aversion in which dowry payments make parents worse off with girls....
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS11147Date: June 17, 2025Author:
Borker, Girija ;
Eeckhout, Jan ;
Luke,Nancy ;
Minz,Shantidani ;
Munshi,Kaivan ;
Swaminathan,Soumya
This report summarizes the key results achieved and lessons learned from the “Enhancing Self Reliance & Preparedness for Forced Displacement in the Great Lakes Region” ASA (P500793). The deliverables are...
Type: ReportReport#: 202363Date: June 17, 2025Author:
World Bank
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