critical to ramp up the institutional capacity and policies for a comprehensive disaster risk management program and to improve … coordination between oversight and implementing agencies through upgraded legislation with disaster risk reduction measures while … demonstrated that a whole-of-government approach is critical for meaningful results in a multi-sectoral engagement on disaster risk …

"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

commercial and investment climate factors that may affect enterprises' actual or perceived costs and risks. Both water and …

, land-related investment, and rental market participation and yielded benefits significantly above the cost of …

"This paper investigates how China's saving, investment, and saving-investment balance will evolve in the decades ahead …, cross-country empirical analysis shows that economywide saving and investment in China are higher than what would be …-saving and investment would both decline only mildly in the coming two decades, with ambiguous impact on the current account …

affect private investment. Then they describe their empirical framework, which is based on a vector autoregression (VAR …) model that accounts for flows and (quality-adjusted) stocks of public infrastructure, private investment, as well as changes … public infrastructure has both "flow" and "stock" effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a "stock" effect in Jordan …