Disaster impacts are increasing in severity, and affect communities far beyond the areas of geographic impact as regions are linked in new ways. While industrialized countries may register higher economic...
This book presents papers on several events organized by the World Bank's Disaster Management Fund (DMF). The DMF's objectives are to help the Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disaster...
This Bank's World newsletter includes some of the following headings: embracing popular participation: the Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF) in Latin America and the Caribbean; innovative media...
This review is one of a series of field-based country studies assessing the Bank's recent experiences with post-conflict reconstruction. Other studies in this series include Bosnia and Herzegovina and...
This review is one of a series of field-based country studies assessing the Bank's recent experiences with post-conflict reconstruction. Other studies in this series include El Salvador and Uganda. The...
The aim of this study is to assess the current capacity of Mexico to deal with disaster risk and to identify ways in which the impacts of catastrophes on the economy can be reduced. The study analyzes...
This report aims to provide an overview of the World Bank's experience in providing assistance for natural disasters, and in so doing, aims to lay the foundation for a new paradigm of natural disaster...
Both the recurrent nature of disaster and the availability of technological, social, and organizational remedies make disaster relief an area where mitigation--policies and actions that are intended to...
Both the recurrent nature of disaster and the availability of technological, social, and organizational remedies make disaster relief an area where mitigation--policies and actions that are intended to...
Both the recurrent nature of disaster and the availability of technological, social, and organizational remedies make disaster relief an area where mitigation--policies and actions that are intended to...
The World Bank's response to post-conflict needs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) was early and comprehensive. Its role in reconstruction and economic recovery is widely perceived to have been successful...
Close collaboration between the government and the international community, and strong government ownership, has given Uganda's recovery the reputation of a "model reconstruction." While the Bank has demonstrated...
Close collaboration between the government and the international community, and strong government ownership, has given Uganda's recovery the reputation of a "model reconstruction." While the Bank has demonstrated...
The World Bank's non-lending services--its analytic and advisory services, and its leadership in donor coordination--have supported the reconstruction and recovery of El Salvador. Several high-quality...
This publication synthesizes the findings of an assessment of the Bank's experience with post-conflict reconstruction. Its objective is to distill lessons from the Bank's experience in the subject. The...
The World Bank's non-lending services--its analytic and advisory services, and its leadership in donor coordination--have supported the reconstruction and recovery of El Salvador. Several high-quality...
The World Bank's response to post-conflict needs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) was early and comprehensive. Its role in reconstruction and economic recovery is widely perceived to have been successful...
Close collaboration between the government and the international community, and strong government ownership, has given Uganda's recovery the reputation of a "model reconstruction." While the Bank has demonstrated...
The World Bank's response to post-conflict needs in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH) was early and comprehensive. Its role in reconstruction and economic recovery is widely perceived to have been successful...
The World Bank's non-lending services--its analytic and advisory services, and its leadership in donor coordination--have supported the reconstruction and recovery of El Salvador. Several high-quality...