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understanding infrastructure resilience—the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users’ needs during and after a … governments, stakeholders, and the international community to improve the quality and resilience of these essential services, and …
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sector stakeholders, and development partners that the industry must act urgently to integrate resilience as a core component … Industries Program, which proposes ways to integrate disaster and climate resilience considerations into the industrial …
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Industries create jobs, catalyze investments, and bring technological advancement to a country. However, as industries expand across borders and become increasingly complex, so do their risks, including impacts from disasters and climate change. Disasters,1 including earthquakes and extreme...
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and competitiveness during growing instability has thrust resilience into the spotlight. The suite of risks posed by … threatened. The emergence of industry resilience as a global discourse is timely; however, industry resilience is a nascent … evidential basis for policy intervention and conceptual frameworks for industry resilience are far from definitive, and gaps in …
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The region's growth outlook for 2017-19 remains broadly positive. China's growth moderation and rebalancing are expected to continue. In the region's other large developing economies, growth is projected to pick up slightly. Poverty has continued to decline in most countries and is projected to...
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This book is the latest report by the World Bank to estimate comprehensive wealth - including produced, natural and human / institutional assets - for over 100 countries. This ground-breaking report presents wealth accounts for 1995, 2000, and 2005, permitting the first longer-term assessment of...
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