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Risk-Based Regulation (RBR) achieves public policy objectives by targeting activities that pose the highest risk to the public well-being, and in turn lowers burdens for a variety of lower-risk...
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This document is the executive summary of the World Bank publication Building Regulation for Resilience. The publication focuses on how the building regulation process can be enhanced in order to...
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A new World Bank report shows how countries can reform labor regulations to protect their workers and maintain job creation. We talk to David Robalino, one of the report authors, and Sandra Polaski,...
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From 2009–2011, investment climate teams of the World Bank Group worked with the Armenian government to reduce regulatory barriers to business creation, operation, and growth. As a result, the Bank...
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Agriculture is one of Moldova’s largest sectors and a main driver of the country’s economy. In spite of its major contributions, the sector faces challenges in becoming more competitive. This project...
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"Learn the 10 principles for the effective governance of regulators."
Two billion people now live in countries where development outcomes are
affected by fragility. Fragile states tend to be...
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This brief will focus on enabling regulations for mini-grids, providing an overview of key issues, options, and good practices. While appropriate regulations are not all that is needed to spur mini-...
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Two critical challenges for countries affected by fragility, conflict and violence (FCV) are creating sustainable peace and constructing a path for growth. Often functioning with limited capacity,...
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The development of sustainable index-insurance markets requires enabling legal and regulatory environments. In addition to this regional regulatory change, the global index-insurance facility (GIIF)...
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The Labor Market Regulations indicator of the Doing Business Report studies the flexibility of regulation of employment, specifically as it relates to the areas of hiring, working hours and redundancy...
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"The importance of the development of a clear sustainable finance strategy and the creation of local standards such as a green taxonomy that follows international standards"
This webinar...
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The IP4D Community of Practice (Insurance and Pensions for Development, Regulation and Supervision) is a group for insurance and pensions policymakers and supervisors and others interested in...
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Building regulation has a crucial role to play in reducing disaster risk. Building codes can lessen vulnerability by specifying adequate standards for exposure by guiding development away from the...
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Building codes and land-use regulation have proven to be the most eective tools to promote health and saety in cities and reduce disaster risk. Low- and middle-income countries have suffered over 90...
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Women, Business and the Law measures how laws, regulations and institutions differentiate between women and men in ways that may affect women’s incentives or capacity to work or to set up and run a...
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Agribusiness is a key driver of the Ukrainian economy, with some 70 percent of the total land area dedicated to agriculture and over 20 percent of the people employed in that sector. But Soviet-era...
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In the last decade, low- and middle-income countries have experienced 53 percent of all disasters globally—but have accounted for 93 percent of disaster-related fatalities.1 This disproportionate...
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"A series of discussions with central banks and regulators about how they can accelerate efforts to “green” the financial system."
Ctrl + Alt + Delete Green Rebuild Webinar Series, hosted by the...
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The enabling environment is the national government’s legal, regulatory, and institutional framework and debt market conditions that govern sub-national governments’ (SNGs) borrowing. When planning...
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Modern buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo-bimetals, smart materials that act more like human...
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