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Building strong, inclusive economies and achieving successful country outcomes together at the 2019 Annual Meeting

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Nearly 1.1 billion people escaped extreme poverty between 1990 and 2015, thanks to kick-off-blog-2broad-based economic growth and inclusive approaches to development. But progress is stalling, and we face an urgent challenge; today, one in 10 people still live in extreme poverty.

To boost action and accelerate progress towards tackling development challenges and reducing extreme poverty, delegates from our member countries, observer organizations, civil society, private sector, and media will convene at the 2019 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

This year’s events will take place in Washington, D.C. from October 14-20, 2019.

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International Debt Statistics 2020: External Debt Stock of Low- and Middle-Income Countries Rose, but Pace of Increase Slowed

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External debt stock of low- and middle-income countries rose 5.2% in 2018 to $7.8 ids-20192trillion, a slower pace of accumulation than in 2017, according to the World Bank’s International Debt Statistics 2020. Excluding the top ten borrowers (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey) external debt stocks for low- and middle-income countries rose 4%.

Net debt inflows (gross disbursements minus principal payments) to low- and middle-income countries fell 28% in 2018 to $529 billion. At the same time, net financial flows (including both debt and equity) to low- and middle-income countries fell 19% in 2018, down 29% excluding China.

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eC2: IFC Grainpulse Uganda Smallholder Farmer Baseline Data Collection

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Deadline: 19-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) farmers_working_in_their_fields_in_guinea

IFC is seeking to hire a Firm to collect baseline data from smallholder farmers for this specific project. To estimate the impact of the IFC Grainpulse project interventions on smallholder farmers, a farmer panel survey will be conducted, collecting baseline and endline data.  The objectives of this baseline survey are to: a) Create a profile of smallholder farmers, their household characteristics, including poverty and food consumption estimates as well as nutrition related indicators; farming practices; access to and utilization of agricultural inputs and services; access to finance; yields; sales; gender roles; and others. b) Establish a baseline for farmer livelihood and farming related indicators before the start of project implementation.Scope of work
Please note that the information noted here only refers to the baseline data collection for this project and that the Firm will be responsible for the implementation of all data collection activities linked to this initial survey round.

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The World Bank Group Exceeds 2020 Climate Targets for the Second Year in a Row: Here’s How It Was Done

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS Cobenefits3

  • In fiscal year 2019, the World Bank Group committed nearly $17.8 billion to climate-related investments, surpassing current targets for the second year in a row.
  • Three country snapshots illustrate some of the ways climate change considerations were integrated in the project design: building climate resiliency into transportation systems in Sierra Leone; improving irrigation to address food security in Pakistan; and mitigating flood risk in Vietnam’s urban infrastructure.
  • Going forward, the World Bank Group will invest and mobilize $200 billion in climate-related financing from 2021-2025, doubling what we did in the last five years and significantly ramping up support for adaptation.

eC2: TA Activity to establish a city-owned Yangon Flood Resilience Strategy

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Deadline: 21-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) water

The assignment described in this REoI, falls under the Technical Assistance activity attached to Component 2 of the Myanmar SEA-DRM project and is referred to as Yangon Flood Resilience Strategy.  The consulting services (the Services) for Yangon Flood Resilience Strategy include: Task 1: Prepare three strategic directions that inform the formulation of a preferred Flood Resilience Strategy and prepare a Catalog of Measures, a matrix of design principles and example measures applicable to the Yangon situation,
Task 2: Establish a city-owned Flood Resilience Strategy for Yangon and engage with YCDC and Yangon Regional Government in a Multi-Criteria Analysis CBA to design a multi-annual Investment Program for flood resilience interventions (structural and non-structural) (Program of Measures)  Task 3: Pre-feasibility Study (engineering design) for selected priority investment options.

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eC2: Assessment on Electricity for Host Communities and Forcibly Displaced People in the Sahel

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Deadline: 01-Jun-2020 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.)energy

The overall objective of this activity is to conduct an assessment of electricity access to better understand demand and supply and identify market barriers, key market players and support required to promote the growth of basic electricity services for conflict-affected zones (borders), host communities and FDPs in the Sahel (Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Tchad).

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Time to ACT! Realizing Indonesia’s urban potential

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Indonesia has been transformed by urbanization. As a new World Bank report titled ju210722Time to ACT: Realizing Indonesia’s Urban Potential shows, when its independence was proclaimed in 1945, only one in eight Indonesians lived in towns and cities, and the country’s entire urban population stood at about 8.6 million, roughly that of London today. By contrast, today about 151 million, or 56% of Indonesians live in urban areas, roughly 18 times the population of London.

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eC2: Digital Economy For South Asia (DE4SA)- Digital Economy Assessments

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Deadline:  15-Oct-2019 at 11:59:59 PM (Eastern Time – Washington D.C.) index.jpeg

The World Bank Digital Development Global Practice (DD GP) is engaging with countries across Asia to identify new opportunities for growth and inclusion from the digital economy. These engagements have resulted in most cases from ongoing policy dialogue or investment lending programs and they reflect an interest from these countries to identify the public policies and investments that can promote their national digital economies. At the same time, there are opportunities to be realized through regional programs that could improve connectivity, access to markets, and grow the regional digital economy. In addition, there are also ongoing engagements with countries across Africa in other engagements.

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The sky is not the limit: Satellites in support of smallholder farming

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By: Annemarie Klaasse / Chris Aubrecht/Erick Fernandes

When you hear about satellite information in agriculture, you often imagine a farmer driving his tractor in a large field, with the help of a GPS and a fancy display showing the latest satellite derived information.

But can satellite-based earth observation technology also benefit smallholder farmers, who typically farm on land that is smaller than 2 hectares? How does it fit in with the daily reality of a smallholder farmer, who often has little information at hand, and limited access to tractors and inputs such as water, fertilizer, seeds, and pesticides?

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With a changing nature of work, a robust set of protections is needed to build and safeguard human capital

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Without risk, there’s little reward. This is the gist of dozens of quotes attributable to such 27150956262_6d85daf739_onotable figures as John F. Kennedy and Yo-Yo Ma, Paulo Coelho and Rihanna. Their maxims on life hold true for markets. How can policy help people – particularly people living in poverty or vulnerable to impoverishment who arguably have the most to lose – take risks and reap greater rewards?   For as long as there has been society, risk-sharing has been an essential clause in the social contract. However, in the present period of rapid and fundamental change, this question continues to demand the attention of policy makers.

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