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The high-level Investor Forum will take place on November 29, 2018, in Buenos Aires, hosted by the President of Argentina, this year's chair of the G20, and co-organized with the World Bank Group. The Forum will bring together leaders from the public sector and the global investment communityto...
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The global housing deficit in both developed and developing countries is increasing - driven by demographic and other mega-trends including urbanization and income inequality. Global pension fund assets, on the other hand, are both growing and increasingly looking for long-term, productive...
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This Technical Note provides detailed information on the Brazilian risk classification system using the RI approach and … the Indian RI system for the initial risk screening of a large portfolio of existing dams. Annex A provides basic … preliminary level risk analyses for portfolios of dams and initial screening of risky dams, which may need to be supplemented by …
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The importance of ensuring that dam structures can withstand earthquakes has been recognized and practiced for many years. The technical capability of the dam engineering industry in the seismic design of dam structures has increased considerably since the 1980-1990s. Dams designed using modern...
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, contributed to the survey, which included questions on investment policies, asset allocation, risk management, environmental … banks' risk management practices show room for improvement, especially in institutions that have expanded into … internal risk and reporting practices to strengthen oversight. ESG investing is still rarely adopted by central banks, and …
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expenditures and financial risks. Understanding the impacts of disaster risk on sovereign assets and liabilities plays a key part … in understanding the potential impact of sovereign disaster risk finance strategies which allow governments to reduce the … to financial shocks posed by disaster risk through improved understanding of the impacts of disaster risk on both sides …
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In the context of Romania's push toward sustainable and inclusive development, the government has asked the World Bank to support the harmonization of public investments financed by the European Union and the state budget. The current report describes the national program for local development...
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The pandemic has taken a drastic human toll, and its global-scale economic and social impacts affected rural development work focused on the most poor and vulnerable populations. It has...
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Several key policy documents guiding the broader education sector to align with European Union (EU) standards have recently been adopted in Serbia. However, a range of challenges have made it difficult for new policies and the systems they propose to be implemented. The gap between policy...
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