The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility has made a payout of approximately US$2.4 million to the government of Trinidad and...
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LONDON – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought...
In late January 2015, just after the deadliest outbreak of Ebola in history, then-World Bank President Jim Yong Kim stood...
A collective failure by political leaders to heed warnings and prepare for an infectious disease pandemic has transformed “a world...
Almost exactly four years ago the World Bank announced a pioneering project, the Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, designed to develop...
A ruling last week not to wipe out holders of a World Bank financial instrument providing emergency funds to poor...
A World Bank bond designed to deliver funding to help the world’s poorest countries to tackle fast-spreading diseases has lost...
World Bank funding instruments issued to help emerging countries swiftly tackle pandemics have come under the spotlight after the latest...
The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank...
The Insurance Development Forum (IDF) announced the appointment of Denis Duverne as chair of its Steering Committee, succeeding Stephen Catlin,...