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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers
World Bank Group - 2019
Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...
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Financial Risk and Opportunities to Build Resilience in Europe
World Bank Group - 2021
This report presents an analysis conducted by the World Bank to assess macro-fiscal impacts of earthquakes and floods in European Union (EU) Member States (MS), analyze the financial instruments in place to manage this risk and identify any associated funding gaps. The analysis is underpinned by...
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Including Institutions : Boosting Resilience in Europe
World Bank Group - 2019
(EMU) - the eurozone. The report finds that resilience of inclusive growth varied across EU countries, when faced with the …
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Building SOE Crisis Management and Resilience : Emerging Practices and Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Crisis
World Bank Group - 2021
the impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on their economies and governance structures. Addressed to …
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Climate-Related Shocks and Fiscal Sustainability : Potential Impacts and Policy Options
World Bank Group - 2023
Real GDP expanded by 17.7 percent in 2022, with per capita incomes surpassing the pre-pandemic levels. On the supply side, accommodation, transport, and commerce explained 60 percent of growth. On the demand side, exports (mainly tourism) and private consumption accounted for growth. The rebound...
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
World Bank Group - 2020
shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates …
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Tunisia Economic Monitor, Summer 2020 : The COVID-19 Global Pandemic Shock
World Bank Group - 2020
impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the Tunisian economy and the second presents findings from a diagnostic of …
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Assessment of Firms' Financial Resilience against Pandemic and Disaster Shocks in Albania
World Bank Group - 2021
Over the period 2019-21, Albania had to confront dual shocks: the 2019 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both had sizable impacts on the country's economy. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on an economy already affected by the earthquake in 2019. Key sectors were put in lockdown in...
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Learning from Tropical Cyclone Seroja : Building Disaster and Climate Resilience in Timor-Leste
World Bank Group - 2021
Tropical Cyclone (TC) Seroja impacted Timor-Leste with heavy torrential rains over a 24-hour period on April 4, 2021, with an average intensity of over 14 millimeters per hour and a peak intensity of over 70 millimeters per hour. The heavy precipitation and the country's natural topography led...
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Boosting Croatia's Economic Resilience
World Bank Group - 2020
recovery started only in 2015 but in 2020 Croatia is again facing a deep downturn due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic … that resulted in a global economic shock of unprecedented magnitude. Country's economic resilience is under an influence of … quickly from adverse shock and prepare the country for the next recession …
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