Agriculture is an increasingly risky business in much of the world, including the West African region. The World Bank … has developed an Agricultural Risk Management (ARM) framework that assesses risks in systemic production, markets, and … of risk management measures so that scarce resources can be allocated where they have the most impact. It also helps …

This report seeks to further the body of disaster risk management (DRM) knowledge in Santa Catarina by identifying … designed and developed by the World Bank and Santa Catarina's state government with the ultimate aim to produce a state …

supply chain risk assessments (World Bank 2015a). The paper also relies on recent work by international institutions and …The objective of this paper is to develop an approach for integrating a gender dimension into Agricultural Sector Risk … Assessments (ASRAs). The focus is on the approach because both agricultural risk and gender issues are contextual, thus the …

In project finance, risks are allocated to the parties best able to manage them. However, the risk mitigation … commercial risk mitigation instruments commonly used in project finance by private lenders and sometimes by equity investors. The … construction period, three main groups of instruments are used to mitigate risk: contractual arrangements and associated guarantees …

ninth biggest in the world, compared to the eleventh biggest in 2007. This year, Russia's output might exceed US$2 trillion … go a long way to make the most of the economic benefits of Russia's World Trade Organization accession in summer 2012. …

the formulation of a country-specific comprehensive disaster risk financing (DRF) strategy, based on the assessment of the … preliminary fiscal risk analysis and a review of the current budget management of disasters in Dominica. The report benefits from … the international experience of the World Bank and the approach outlined in its operational DRF and insurance framework …

highest trade surplus in one of the most open economies in the world, Vietnam's agricultural sector was affected by … and gaps in Vietnam's food safety risk assessment. The third chapter presents some of the key lessons and experiences in … food safety risk management from some countries within the region and more advanced economies, as a basis to inform Vietnam …