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Portfolio Risk Assessment Using Risk Index
World Bank Group - 2021
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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Pension System plus Climate Risk : Measurement plus Mitigation
World Bank Group - 2020
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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The Impacts of Disaster Risk on Sovereign Asset and Liability Management
World Bank Group - 2021
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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Measuring Rural Access : Using New Technologies
World Bank Group - 2016
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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Developing Gender-Disaggregated Poverty Small Area Estimates : Technical Report
World Bank Group - 2019
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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Measuring Rural Access : Update 2017/18
World Bank Group - 2019
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...
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Poverty Mapping in Tajikistan : Method and Key Findings
World Bank Group - 2016
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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A Roadmap for Countries Measuring Multidimensional Poverty
World Bank Group - 2021
Traditional measures of poverty have focused on income or expenditure based on a minimum threshold required to purchase a basket of essential goods and services. However, important aspects of well-being might not be fully captured through monetary measures alone. Multidimensional poverty...
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Multidimensional Poverty in Malaysia : Improving Measurement and Policies in the 2020s
World Bank Group - 2021
It has long been recognized that poverty is multidimensional, comprising not only insufficient income but also deprivations in access to basic services, the quality of living conditions, personal security, and other aspects of well-being. Since 2010 there has been rapid growth in the development...
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Getting Down to Earth : Are Satellites Reliable for Measuring Air Pollutants That Cause Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries?
World Bank Group - 2022
unreliable. Limited local expertise in air-quality measurement presents additional challenges. These shortcomings can undermine a …
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