Documents et rapports
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Shocks and Coping in Sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
Despite the fact that economic shocks are widely perceived to be important facets of life for many households in sub-Saharan Africa, with important implications for well-being and poverty, data on the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 147750 Date du document: 31 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus
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Opportunities and challenges from working in partnership : findings from IEG's work on partnership programs and trust funds (anglais)
Partnerships and trust funds are big business for the World Bank Group. It participates in around 126 global partnership programs and administers more than 1000 trust funds which have become a significant...
Type de document: IEG Evaluation Numéro du rapport: 95559 Date du document: 1 janvier 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus
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What do household surveys really tell us about risk, shocks, and risk management in the developing world? (anglais)
The authors report on a project to explore empirical patterns in risk, shocks and risk management using recent household surveys with risk modules from 16 different developing countries. Natural disasters...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 100254 Date du document: 2 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Oviedo, Ana María,Talukdar,Faiyaz
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"They Are Not Like Us" : Understanding Social Exclusion (anglais)
Negative attitudes toward groups in society are widespread and underpin systematic processes of social exclusion that marginalize people and deny them opportunities and dignity. This paper looks at the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6784 Date du document: 1 février 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Lakhani,Sadaf Sayyeda,Sacks,Audrey
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Trust fund for environmentally and socially sustainable development annual report for the period January 1 to December 31, 2011 (anglais)
Trust fund for environmentally and socially sustainable development (TFESSD) disbursed and committed USD 18.3 million in 2011, a record high. 2011 was also the year that TFESSD started phasing out its...
Type de document: Rapport annuel Numéro du rapport: 77966 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Olinto,Pedro,Aslam,Ghazia
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Coping and resilience during the food, fuel, and financial crises (anglais)
How and how well have people with low incomes been coping with global economic volatility since 2008? This question is addressed through a synthesis of qualitative research in 17 countries on how selected...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79401 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Hossain,Naomi Therese,Reva,Anna,Turk,Carolyn
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Community-Based Adaptation : Lessons from a Grant Competition (anglais)
What do local communities perceive as the key problems and challenges for adaptation to climate change? Lessons are identified from a major global grant competition, the development marketplace, focused...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 79430 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gitay,Habiba,Heltberg,Rasmus,Prabhu,Radhika Ganesh
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Greening China's rural energy : new insights on the potential of smallholder biogas (anglais)
Clean, safe energy for rural areas is an important component of green growth and sustainable development. Biogas could be an important contributor, if its record in reality lives up to its expected potential...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6102 Date du document: 1 juin 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Christiaensen,Luc,Heltberg,Rasmus
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Living through crises : how the food, fuel, and financial shocks affect the poor (anglais)
The food, fuel, and financial crises that started in 2008 reverberated throughout the global economy, causing job losses; poverty; and economic, financial, and political upheaval in countries all over...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 67865 Date du document: 3 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Hossain,Naomi Therese,Reva,Anna
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Tajikistan - Economic and distributional impact of climate change (anglais)
Tajikistan is highly vulnerable to the adverse impacts of global climate change, as it already suffers from low agricultural productivity, water stress, and high losses from disasters. Public awareness...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 69082 Date du document: 1 avril 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Reva,Anna,Zaidi,Salman
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Climate responsive social protection (anglais)
In the years ahead, development efforts aiming at reducing vulnerability will increasingly have to factor in climate change, and social protection is no exception. This paper sets out the case for climate?responsive...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 67614 Date du document: 1 mars 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kuriakose,Anne T.,Heltberg,Rasmus,Wiseman,William David,Costella,Cecilia Valentina,Cipryk,Rachel,Cornelius,Sabine
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Anatomy of coping: evidence from people living through the crises of 2008-11 (anglais)
This paper surveys qualitative crisis monitoring data from sites in 17 developing and transition countries to describe crisis impacts and analyze the responses and sources of support used by people to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5957 Date du document: 1 janvier 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Hossain,Naomi Therese,Reva,Anna,Turk,Carolyn
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The impacts of economic crisis in Mongolia : findings from focus group discussions (anglais)
Mongolia was hit hard by the global economic recession, notably the fall in commodity prices. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contracted by 1.6 percent in 2009 after growth of 8.9 percent in 2008. The country...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 65163 Date du document: 1 avril 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus,Reva,Anna,Sarantuya, J.,Sodnomtseren, Altantsetseg
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Mapping vulnerability to climate change (anglais)
This paper develops a methodology for regional disaggregated estimation and mapping of the areas that are ex-ante the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and variability and applies it to...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5554 Date du document: 1 janvier 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bonch-Osmolovskiy, Misha,Heltberg,Rasmus
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Community-based adaptation : lessons from the development marketplace 2009 on adaptation to climate change (anglais)
The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. The findings are based...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 63911 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gitay,Habiba,Heltberg,Rasmus,Prabhu,Radhika Ganesh
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Scaling-up social accountability in World Bank operations (anglais)
Social accountability is an approach towards building accountability that relies on civic engagement, in which citizens participate directly or indirectly in demanding accountability from service providers...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 51469 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Agarwal,Sanjay,Heltberg,Rasmus,Diachok,Myrtle Laura
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Helping South Asia cope with natural disasters : the role of social protection (anglais)
Addressing the social protection needs of households during emergencies is a major development issue. Without social protection measures, such as cash transfers for basic needs or workfare programs, many...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55871 Date du document: 1 septembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Heltberg,Rasmus