... 60 Climate Finance 62 Understanding and Managing the World Bank Group’s Environmental Impact 63 Supporting the Resilience Agenda 64 Strengthening ... Disaster Risk Management 64 Strengthening Climate Adaptation Initiatives, Targeting Agriculture 65 Opening Doors to Knowledge and Learning 66 Small Island States: Microcosms ... Pacific 76 Europe and Central Asia 76 The Green Agenda in Europe and Central Asia 76 The Clean Agenda in Europe and Central Asia 76 The Resilience...
... (CCRIF), for example, offers parametric insurance against major hurricanes and earthquakes in 16 Caribbean countries A similar initiative for the Pacific Island countries is in preparation Catastrophe ... (covering more than 20 million farmers) and the WeatherBased Crop Insurance Scheme (covering more than 60 0,000 farmers) in India protect against poor harvests caused by drought or frost Similar initiatives ... insurance pools such as the index-based livestock insurance program in Mongolia (covering more than 60 0,000 animals and involving four private insurance companies) Specialized Index-Based Insurance...
... 59 MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA 60 SOUTH ASIA .61 ANNEX INFORMATION SECURITY AND PRIVACY IN A CONNECTED WORLD 62 ii Abbreviations AfDB AIR APEC ASEAN ATM CCTs ... World Bank: $5 06 million (45 World Bank: $68 million in ICT operations) World Bank: $89 million (11 World Bank: $212 million in sector investment lending (7 IFC: $2.3 billion (61 projects) operations) ... estimated million additional direct jobs by 20 16, while indirectly creating as many as 12– 16 million more in other sectors In India young people (ages 26 35) hold around 70 percent of jobs in this...
... Washington, DC 20433, USA Fax: 202-522- 262 5; E-mail: pubrights@worldbank.org ISBN (paper): 978-1- 464 8- 063 0-8 ISBN (electronic): 978-1- 464 8- 063 1-5 DOI: 10.15 96/ 978-1- 464 8- 063 0-8 Design: Crabtree + Company ... Lessons from Experience in Client Countries, FY02–12 Washington, DC: World Bank doi:10.15 96/ 978-1- 464 8- 063 0-8 License: Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0 IGO Translations If you create a translation ... of Success of Upstream Work 52 Conclusion 64 4. Did Public-Private Partnerships Deliver? 67 World Bank Group Support to Structuring and Financing PPPs 69 Results of World Bank Group Support...
... Building 1 46 Specific Policies to Facilitate Financial Access 152 Policies to Promote Competition and Stability 1 56 Government Interventions in the Market 163 Political Economy of Access 1 76 Conclusions ... Kingdom: firm size at entry and over time 61 Finance and growth across Chinese provinces 65 The effect of financing constraints on growth: small vs large firms 67 2 .6 Credit information sharing and loan ... Sharia-compliant instruments for firm finance 161 4.3 Rural branching in India 164 4.4 Subsidy and access 175 vi CONTENTS Figures 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1 .6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10 1.11 1.12 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4...
... (GCF).25 Another initiative, the Climate Investment Fund 15 16 World Bank Study (CIF), has current spending capacity of US $6. 5 billion. 26 Such initiatives, collectively referred to as green infrastructure ... Characteristics of Project Finance . 26 Box 4: Capital Market Gap for South East Asia Biomass Plant 31 Box 5: Feed-in Tariffs 42 Box 6: Mechanism to Subscribe Emission Subsidy ... 26 Figure 4: Energy Efficiency Projects May Be Less A ractive than Core Business Projects .30 Figure 5: Explaining the Financial Viability Gap for a Wind Farm 32 Figure 6: Filling...
... Exhibit 4: Standard Bidding Documents 36 Instructions to Bidders 36 General Conditions of Contract ... ORRUPTION IN C OUNTRY ’ S L AWS W ORLD B ANK P ROJECTS AGAINST F RAUD AND Art 1. 16 of the Procurement Guidelines and Art 1. 26 of the Consultants Guidelines specify the circumstances in which a Borrower ... January 1999 (Art 1.15 and Art 1. 16) – Guidelines: Selection and Employment of Consultants by World Bank Borrowers, revised January 1999 (Art 1.25 and Art 1. 26) • Standard Bidding Documents (selected...
... www.jubilee2000uk.org/databank/Briefings/ HIPC301001.htm 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 Halifax Initiative, “What is Our Position in Regards to the ... 1 960 -1980, the following 20 years of structural adjustment have devastated the continent Impacts of Adjustment Slower Growth During 1 960 -1980, Sub Saharan Africa’s GDP per capita grew by 36% ; ... this number is rising 40 Between 19 86 and 19 96, per capita education spending fell by 0.7% a year on average The adult literacy rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is 60 %, well below the developing country...
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... 61 How the Bank is Positioned vis-à-vis other Donors and Service Providers 62 Partnerships 64 Internal Bank Group ... Synergies: The International Finance Corporation 66 Bibliography 69 Annex Management Response to the Recommendations of the Operations ... back 16 times a day just to fetch water (or 319 times around the Earth’s equator) If each trip takes an average of hour to walk to the place, wait in a queue, collect the water, and walk back, 6. 4...
... Sustainable Development, David Reed, Earthscan, 19 96, p 3 56 25 “Ecological and Economic Distribution Conflicts”, Martínez Alier, J y O’Connor, M 19 96 in R Costanza and O Segura (Eds.), Getting down ... World Bank, September 19 96 10 Word Development Indicators, World Bank, 1998 11 Accounting for Natural Resources in Ecuador, John Kellenberg, World Bank, September 19 96, p.17 The World Bank’s ... investments are urgently required and analysis must be performed to assess the impact of spending. 26 As well as the impact of budget outlays on education and other services it is also important to...