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Moderating Risks, Bolstering Growth
World Bank - 2013
Half a year ago, Russia's economic prospects looked uncertain. The global economy was losing momentum, the expansion in the euro area was grinding to a halt and commodity prices were beginning to fall. Yet, while output growth is slowing this year in line with weaker growth in Europe and...
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Jamaica : Toward a Strategy for Financial Weather Risk Management in Agriculture
World Bank - 2013
development of the agricultural insurance market. The report is structured in five sections to facilitate its presentation. The … agricultural insurance; third section addresses a set of key issues for designing a government strategy for agricultural financial … for agricultural insurance, and various illustrations of how to structure financial weather risk management instruments …
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GDLN Seminar on Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific : Volume 5. Community-based Disaster Risk Management
World Bank - 2013
finance and transfer and shared experiences of Bank-financed projects, including Turkey's Catastrophic Insurance Pool …
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GDLN Seminar on Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific : Volume 2. Specialized Seminar ??? Introduction to Catastrophe Risk Financing Frameworks
World Bank - 2013
finance and transfer and shared experiences of Bank-financed projects, including Turkey's Catastrophic Insurance Pool …
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GDLN Seminar on Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific : Volume 3. Local Government Approaches to Disaster Risk Management: Climate-Resilient Cities
World Bank - 2013
finance and transfer and shared experiences of Bank-financed projects, including Turkey's Catastrophic Insurance Pool …
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GDLN Seminar on Strengthening Disaster Risk Management in East Asia and the Pacific : Volume 4. Housing and Community Reconstruction after Natural Disasters
World Bank - 2013
finance and transfer and shared experiences of Bank-financed projects, including Turkey's Catastrophic Insurance Pool …
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Child Mobility and Rural Vulnerability in Senegal : Climate Change and the Role of Children in Household Risk Management Strategies in Rural Senegal
World Bank - 2013
Senegal has a relatively low child mobility rate (children who leave their parents). Yet, concern has been raised with regards to the vulnerability of girls who work as domestic servants and boys who leave to study the Koran within informal structures. To learn more about their numbers and the...
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Horizontal Adaptable Program Lending : Assessing Suitability for Risk Management of Natural and Climate-induced Hazards in Pacific Island Countries
World Bank - 2013
The Pacific Island Countries (PICs) are highly vulnerable to natural and climate-induced hazards and this vulnerability is likely to increase over the coming decades. Climate change and natural hazards will have repercussions on coastal development, water supply, energy, agriculture, and health,...
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Weather Risk Management Pilot Program : Tanzania
World Bank - 2013
contract. Although coffee was also recommended for inclusion in a weather insurance pilot project as an important export crop …
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Assessment of Innovative Approaches to Flood Risk Management and Financing in Agriculture : The Thailand Case Study
World Bank - 2013
methods, to conceptualize and potentially implement index-based insurance for agricultural flood losses. In addition, the work …, and flood detection, warning and control-could be harnessed to support the design of such flood insurance programs for … agriculture and challenges in providing flood insurance. The following section describes the flood index insurance concept and …
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