How have you overcome risk to improve your life? – Live chat

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  • Norman Loayza
    Director, 2014 World Development Report, the World Bank
What Increases Risk

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DATE: March 27, 2013

From personal health concerns to nationwide conflict, any number of risks can get in the way of success for individuals, families, businesses, and entire nations. How can such risks be better managed at all levels of society - who is responsible and who is empowered?

The authors of the upcoming 'World Development Report 2014: Managing Risks for Development hosted a live online chat about risk management and its impact on development and poverty reduction.

Participants from all over the world asked questions, discussed risk, and helped the World Development Report 2014 team write their report by sharing their experiences.

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Arab spring brought many risks
Are WB and UN aware of the generated risk due to the political and military conflicts in Arab countries?
Yehya Al-Ashwal
Yemen, Rep.
environment pollution,imposed targets in jobs by deficiency of staff recruitment,abnormal high temperatures etc influencing health problems.
dwarakanadhareddymokkala
India
How can the government plan to solve poverty when the people themselves lack effort to combat poverty? (Inequality might arise due to "commitment-to-be-better" factor and "industriousness" factor) I would like to hear opinions regarding this. Thank you. :)
Shandy Co
Philippines
Why the risk of "ownership and accountability" should not be seen now as an untapped opportunity to overhaul recruitment system of weakest sectors i.e Poverty/Sanitation based only on attitude test for always positive results when applied to any system of work per se.
Anuj Malik
India
Do you think the desire for risk management will promote the creation of an "Asian Union" that follows the model of the "European Union."
Ben DeDominicis
Korea, Rep.
Global constant inflation is a continuous risk for the middle and poor class. How can it reduce
Muhammad Shahid Khan
Pakistan
Assessing risk is normal when making investments. Unfortunately, our assessments of risks vary from person to person. I'm interested in better understanding when risks can be distortionary and lead to inefficiency AND (perhaps more importantly) what are the appropriate policies to remedy this?
Martin
United States
Risk is inevitable, a natural process. How we deal with it makes us...who we truly are.
Hal Zhao
United States
I hope international community will do something about our corruft leaders here in Nigeria
Iesa Mousa
Nigeria
How to develop/motivate our self efficiently in all aspects of our life for competitive improved life?
Roshan Pokhrel
Nepal
How wide and big USA's sequester cuts(especially great cut of millitary) will affect Republic of Korea's economiy?
Kahyun Lim
Korea, Rep.
Distributing all essential resources in the reasonable way is one of the best measures to resolve completely poverty globally. Do you agree with it? If you agree, how can governments do it?
Hai Doan Ba
Vietnam
Is it possible to face this global economic crisis investing in developing countries and evironment, rather than "playng" with financial affair?
Elena
Italy
What are the current gaps in existing research regarding understanding risk and risk management at the household level in face of a changing climate?
S
United Kingdom
To obey the natural laws of physics, is to obey the measured laws of nature in relation to man; the solution is harmonious. And in the immortal words of Mick Jagger: you can't always get what you want, but you can try sometimes and you just might find, you'll get what you need.
Christopher Michael Harold
Canada
I understand that each member country of The World Bank's board has discriminative vote according to its own investment in election president. And I also know that there is a comment that such a method shows advanced countries-centered world order. I'd like to hear your ideas about this.
Kyu Bong Lee
Korea, Rep.
Most of the countries in the world keep developing nowadays, but it has two aspects. It can not only help us to live more conveniently but also cause lots of problems such as environmental pollution. How should we deal with this dilemma?
Jinsol Kim
Korea, Rep.
Can communities better prepare for these risks in the upland and coastal areas of the islands we have?
Pamela E. Sullano
Philippines
I think policies for everyone have possibility of overlooking people who have no power. It make unstable society. So Taking a long-term view, It has advantage to make policies for social minorities.
Eun Chae Cho
Korea, Rep.
After Korean war we had many risk mangement
but through miracle of Han river we overcame.
Like this I think whatever our risk came,
we can defeat that by adding individual's effort.
Kim Da Eun
Korea, Rep.
Very helpful to the Purpose of Global Advancement
Ong, Chee Hock
Malaysia
When I was a kid, I had problems with this issue of low self-confidence and that made me be not be able to make social relationships properly. From then, I tried to seek ways to improve my self by reading as many books on self-improvement as I can.
Lee Jinsol
Korea, Rep.
How poor countries in africa could overcome poverty? How are they trying to get over poverty?
Is the emrgency-aid for them actually breaking their will to self-help?
Kyu Bong Lee
Korea, Rep.
Good Afternoon Dr. Norman :Considering the heriditory risk of "Ownership and Accountability",
Can Government / W.B jointly decide officials recruitment for weakest sectors
like Poverty/health as a pilot for gaps identification and improving the efficiency
Anuj Malik
India
Our country once had an economic crisis because of the weak management of the forein-exchanges. We lost our credit and companies closed. To overcome this, we put a lot of efforts like the government made business more free. At last we succeeded to get a loan from the IMF, and overcame the crisis.
Yoon Yeo Hun
Korea, Rep.
Recently, North Korea has been showing some provocative actions against South Korea.
I wonder how the Korean government will deal with this impending situation and relieve growing anxiety of the Korean nation.
Lee Jinsol
Korea, Rep.
problems in city are occuring constantly. gravitation of the population is one of those reasons. how to decrease the population in city and develop the countries efficiently?
kang ye lim
Korea, Rep.
s.k, n.k betwenn countries are growing worse.
but i believe relations have improved.
n.k risk for the poor and then more poor.
how can it reduce
koyohan
Korea, Rep.
Today Nortth Korea has made provocative claims to UNSC. It really threatens the world. Military development is based on its economic stability. What WB can do to prevent and have a strike on North Korea??
Park Jung Hoon
Korea, Rep.
Most developing countries have made few progress in managing risks. How the aid development international organizations are going to support these countries for advancing in this field.
Eduardo Centeno
Nicaragua
one of the major risk is poverty and second is lack awareness.
Nadeem Yousaf
Pakistan
how is volume of Nepal's trade with saarc country?
chhetra singh thapa
Nepal
The HIV/AIDS fund from World Bank has been provided to the government of Nepal to work effectively but yet its been 7 months, the required amount has not yet been disburse. Can anyone help me in this regards.
Parsu Ram Rai
Nepal
If i have a risk, i read books.
books tell to me how to solve my problem
or sometimes mom help me
mom lived more than me so she has a lot exprience.
Ryu se lim
Korea, Rep.
gender equality project Ghana.
what world bank help and assistance
Finance and supply section of world bank group what help?
ayeni kayode
Ghana
Organizations should ensure good indoor air quality since it puts all the employees under risk of falling sick and being less productive.
Vanitha T
India
Global food price inflation is the biggest risk for political instability, markets etc. However, its biggest impact will be on the poor. What policies need to made right now to avert the disasters that can possibly result from global food price inflation?
Aqdas Afzal
United States
Do you think a lot of people will take risk if there were assurances from their governments. And even if such government protections exist how many citizens are aware and exposed to them in developing economies?
Edna Osei
United States
Will doubling the population exceed the availibility of food? There is RISK of soil depletion and cultures colasping under the load of food production.
Wally
United States
How to made life Easy after retire ?
Nippon. Hansamritphon
Thailand
Sir, iam a nurse by profession and iam operating clinic and went to my bank several times, they keep on telling me no more loan in their bank. And i want to develop my clinic and i need money. What should i do?
Oyibo Omeiza Muhammed.
Nigeria
I am Student of Finance and accountancy, I want to ask that what can be a good desertation topic in the feild of Finance regarding Pakistan.
Shahbaz Khan
Pakistan
How would you overcome curroption in the global industries?
Orji ajuka
Nigeria
How I can get development of financial status of a private company regarding software research and development.If a private company can get global help and in what process.
Somenath Dasgupta
India