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Building Resilience : Integrating Climate and Disaster Risk into Development

World Bank - 2014

This report presents the World Bank Group's experience in climate and disaster resilient development and contends that it is essential to eliminate extreme poverty and achieve shared prosperity by 2030. The report argues for closer collaboration between the climate resilience and disaster risk...

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Ghana : Cocoa Supply Chain Risk Assessment

World Bank - 2014

Cocoa is by far Ghana's most important crop. It dominates the agricultural sector and is a major source of income for approximately 800,000 farmers and many others engaged in trade, transportation, and processing of cocoa. Cocoa holds a unique position in Ghana's economy. It has long played a...

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Weather Data Grids for Agriculture Risk Management : The Case of Honduras and Guatemala

World Bank - 2014

to the development of weather index-based insurance, is the availability of complete meteorological data. Limitations … risk analysis in insurance contracts where meteorological information is limited or incomplete. This paper is organized in … development of weather insurance contracts. Section four summarizes the main conclusions. …

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Integrating Gender-Sensitive Disaster Risk Management into Community-Driven Development Programs

World Bank - 2014

This note on integrating gender-sensitive disaster risk management (DRM) in community-driven development (CDD) Programs is the sixth in a series of guidance notes on gender issues in DRM in the East Asia and the Pacific region. Targeting World Bank staff, clients and development partners, this...

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Household Risk Management and Social Protection in Chile

World Bank - 2013

lower losses from these shocks - from the new unemployment insurance system, the retirement security system and the mixed … health insurance system - are generally appropriately designed to match the nature of the risks they are intended to cover …

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Romania - A Risk Analysis and Screening Approach for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Options

World Bank - 2014

The current report is a milestone for preparing the Romanian climate change (CC) action plan. A CC action plan should be based on the consolidation and coordination of both mitigation and adaptation measures and options. An important step in the elaboration of such a plan is the selection of...

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Innovation in Disaster Risk Financing for Developing Countries

World Bank - 2011

recent innovations on disaster risk financing and insurance developed by the private markets as well as the international … developing countries. Section two examines examples of innovation in the private insurance and capital markets that may have … mature property catastrophe risk insurance (PCRI) markets could serve in low and middle-income countries. Section four …

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