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  1. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    March, 2012
    Asia, Central Asia, Europe, Eastern Europe

    The climate is changing, and the Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is vulnerable to the consequences. Many of the region's countries are facing warmer temperatures, a changing hydrology, and more extremes, droughts, floods, heat waves, windstorms, and forest fires. This book presents an overview of what adaptation to climate change might mean for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It starts with a discussion of emerging best-practice adaptation planning around the world and a review of the latest climate projections.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2020
    Guatemala, Nigeria, Rwanda, Vietnam

    Investments that reduce food loss and waste can deliver big wins on two pressing issues of our time: food security and environmental sustainability, according to a new World Bank report. But the results are not automatic -- countries need well-targeted solutions.

  3. Library Resource

    Opening Doors to the World

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2017

    Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth. Yet their economic growth has not kept pace. Why? One factor might be low capital investment, due in part to Africa’s relative poverty: Other regions have reached similar stages of urbanization at higher per capita GDP. This study, however, identifies a deeper reason: African cities are closed to the world.

  4. Library Resource
    Ahmedabad : More but Different Government for “Slum Free” and Livable Cities cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    India

    This paper analyzes real estate market dynamics over the past decade in the city of Ahmedabad, India, with a view to improving the living conditions of the large population living in slums. The paper combines census data, the National Sample Survey, and slum household surveys to review the demand side of the market. Satellite photography was used to estimate the production of both formal and informal housing over the past ten years. Analysis of the execution of the development plan for the Ahmedabad region and town planning schemes shows how the system of housing supply has evolved.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2014
    Global

    Efficient land governance has long been recognized as a major driver of sustainable and equitable
    development. Carried out effectively, it can enable us to address critical challenges such as those of climate
    change, urbanization, gender equality, and food security. But the technical complexity of land administration,
    together with institutional and political hurdles, often made the governance of land weak and ineffective,
    thereby reinforcing deep-seated inequalities and creating inertia, instead of contributing to growth and

  6. Library Resource

    A Diagnostic Trade Integration Study

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2016
    Bangladesh, Southern Asia

    This is volume 3 of a three-volume publication on Bangladesh’s trade prospects. Bangladesh’s ambition is to build on its very solid growth and poverty reduction achievements, and accelerate growth to become a middle income country by 2021, and share prosperity more widely amongst its citizens. This includes one of its greatest development challenges: to provide gainful employment to the over 2 million people that will join the labor force each year over the next decade. Moreover, only 54.1 million of its 94 million working age people are employed.

  7. Library Resource

    An IEG Country Assistance Evaluation, 1999-2006

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Cambodia, Eastern Asia, Oceania

    Cambodia emerged in the early 1990s from 30 years of conflict, the brutal Khmer Rouge era, and a decade of Vietnamese occupation, with one of the world’s lowest per-capita incomes, and with social indicators far behind those of neighboring Southeast Asian countries. Physical infrastructure had been largely destroyed. United Nations intervention led to a peace agreement in 1991, a new constitution, elections, and formation of a coalition government, although a reduced level of conflict and political instability continued until the late 1990s.

  8. Library Resource

    Making Cities Work for Central America

    Reports & Research
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean

    Central America is undergoing an important transition. Urban populations are increasing at accelerated speeds, bringing pressing challenges for development, as well as opportunities to boost sustained, inclusive and resilient growth. Today, 59 percent of the region’s population lives in urban areas, but it is expected that 7 out of 10 people will live in cities within the next generation.

  9. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2013
    China

    Ningbo serves as the Chinese pilot city
    for the World Bank Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Program.
    The CRC program aims to, prepare local governments in the
    East Asia region to better understand the concepts and
    consequences of climate change; how climate change
    consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what
    is being done by city governments in East Asia and around
    the world to actively engage in learning capacity building,

  10. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2013
    China

    Ningbo serves as the Chinese pilot city
    for the World Bank Climate Resilient Cities (CRC) Program.
    The CRC program aims to, prepare local governments in the
    East Asia region to better understand the concepts and
    consequences of climate change; how climate change
    consequences contribute to urban vulnerabilities; and what
    is being done by city governments in East Asia and around
    the world to actively engage in learning capacity building,

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