The impacts of the March earthquake are continuing to disrupt lives and livelihoods, exacerbating the already very difficult economic conditions. The World Bank estimates that economic output losses attributable...
The development objective of the Earthquake Recovery and Reconstruction Project for Türkiye is to restore access to essential municipal and health services and resilient housing in selected provinces affected...
Türkiye’s development achievements over the past two decades have been remarkable. Yet, to ensure that these positive trends continue and are sustained over time, Türkiye will need to address several emerging...
Ratings for the Earthquake Housing Reconstruction Project (EHRP) for Nepal were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was satisfactory and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was substantial...
Disasters are frequent and clearly harmful in developing countries, but precisely estimating their overall cost and distributional impact is challenging. This paper proposes a microsimulation approach...
Iraq is prone to natural disasters, including increased climate-related hazards like flooding and geohazards such as earthquakes, which have significantly deteriorated its education infrastructure. To...
This Technical Note supplements the overarching regional report 'A Blue Transformation for Pacific Maritime Transport (World Bank, 2022)'. It provides more detail on, and analysis of, natural hazards in...
The earthquakes which struck southeast Türkiye on February 6, 2023, continue to pose increased risk of falling into poverty for population in the affected areas 11 provinces which are home to 16.4 percent...
The authors investigate key climate change hazards affecting Nepali households and livelihoods: river flooding, heat exposure, drought, landslides, and air pollution. The authors analyze the distributional...
This is a statement by H.E. Mr. Mehmet Şimşek at the 108th Meeting of the Development Committee held on October 12, 2023. Global economic growth remains subdued while the ongoing poly-crisis creates strong...
This is a statement by H.E. Nadia Fettah at the 108th Meeting of the Development Committee held on October 12, 2023. Regarding the Vision and Mission, this constituency reaffirms that a Bigger and Better...
This is a statement by Rt. Hon. Andrew Mitchell and Rt. Hon. Jeremy Hunt at the 108th Meeting of the Development Committee held on October 12, 2023. For a year and a half, Ukraine has suffered the terrible...
The earthquakes centered in and around Kahramanmaras affected 11 provinces in total1, in an area totaling nearly 13.4 million residents. In the aftermath of the earthquakes, Ministry of National Education...
The recent earthquakes in 11 provinces in Türkiye affected the learning of more than 5 million students. The natural disasters occurred during a global economic contraction and regional conflicts just...
Following the Herat province (Western Afghanistan) earthquake sequence of October 7 to 15, 2023, the World Bank carried out a remote desk-based assessment of the physical damages using the Global RApid...
Twelve years into a devastating civil war, a one-in-two-century earthquake devastated northwestern Syria. The 7.6 Richter scale shock was the deadliest in Syria after the one that hit Aleppo in 1822. Using...
Ratings for the Social Assistance Modernization Project for Albania were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, bank performance was highly satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial...