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droughts and support schemes for rice farmers. While governments use risk transfer solutions mostly for infrastructure …. This study investigates the development of a parametric insurance product as an ex ante risk management instrument that … Java Government to transfer drought risk. This study uses over 50 years of historical gridded precipitation and temperature …
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The Philippine Parametric Catastrophe Risk Insurance Program (the 'parametric program') represents a key milestone in … risk that transferred typhoon and earthquake risk from the Philippines through the World Bank to the international … reinsurance market in local currency. In 2018, the GOP purchased a second insurance policy, doubling the amount of coverage. The …
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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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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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geotechnical issues and recommended risk mitigation and management measures. The investigation, design, and construction of dams …
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Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, the vast majority of farmers are still disconnected from local, regional, and global markets. To reduce poverty and support inclusive...
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Small area estimates of poverty and inequality statistics, through survey-to-census imputation that lets consumption be estimated for each and every household in a census, are useful for at least three reasons. First, they can help improve the effectiveness of public spending, by targeting to...
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Transport connectivity is an essential part of the enabling environment for inclusive and sustained growth. In many developing countries, particularly in Africa, most people are still not connected to local, regional, or global markets. Such rural accessibility is crucial to reduce poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646533
National poverty rates are traditionally measured using survey data. To allow for frequent monitoring and to contain the costs of gathering detailed information, such surveys sample only a small subset of the population. This approach necessarily leads to sampling errors however, and as a...
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unreliable. Limited local expertise in air-quality measurement presents additional challenges. These shortcomings can undermine a …
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