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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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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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geotechnical issues and recommended risk mitigation and management measures. The investigation, design, and construction of dams …
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This Guidance Paper provides a primer on distributed ledger technology (DLT) and highlights the junctures at which this new technology meaningfully impacts secured transactions frameworks. The aim is to identify legal and regulatory hotspots, laying the groundwork for their detailed and...
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Unlike the Kyoto protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement is designed to allow for international cooperation in carbon markets through decentralized governance. Under this article, bilateral or plurilateral cooperation between participating parties can be...
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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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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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There are compelling reasons for asset owners - in particular large pension funds and sovereign wealth funds - to adopt sustainable investment, and for governments to support them in these endeavors. First, asset owners have a key role to play in providing the capital that supports national...
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The objective of the World Bank's technical assistance (TA) in the asset management planning ofSerbia's railways, using the life-cycle cost (LCC) method, is to improve the condition of key track infrastructure in the country. The appropriate use of the LCC model would enable Serbian Railways...
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