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The decline in commodity prices that began with metals and agriculture four years ago—joined by crude oil in mid-2014—continued in 2015Q1 (Figure 1). Energy, metals, and agricultural prices were down 28, 11, and 5 percent, respectively, from the previous quarter. Increasing supplies, bumper...
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This is a companion to the Global Economic Prospects 2010. Most commodity prices reached historical highs in mid-2008, giving rise to the longest and broadest commodity boom of the post-WWII period. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the boom was fueled by numerous factors...
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exporters, the energy transition may bring windfalls, but it could also increase their exposure to price volatility …
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The report focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from and within … analysis verifies that economic shocks are significant risk factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking. In origin … correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from and within origin countries … analysis verifies that economic shocks are significant risk factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking. In origin … correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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disasters strike. Investments in physical and social resilience complement and reinforce financial resilience. Pre-arranged risk … financing can help governments reduce the fiscal cost of disasters. Sovereign catastrophe risk pools, established to help … financial resilience in their region. Governments are moving toward adopting more sophisticated risk financing strategies that …
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which … shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates …
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) carried out by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Tunisia …
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actions taken (Section 2); a climate risk exposure landscape based on quantitative analysis deriving country pension fund … climate risk scores (Section 3); a complementary regulatory mapping and score that uses a combined quantitative and …
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. Seismic hazard varies around the world. Some countries experience major earthquakes frequently, whereas other countries have …
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