Coronavirus (COVID-19) partly reversed gains made in three decades of sustained decline in poverty and a decade of accelerated reduction in inequality in Philippines. Although the economy is recovering...
This package of policy notes is addressed to Brazilian society and specifically to the Presidential candidates and their teams of economic advisors in the 2018 election. It provides the World Bank’s diagnosis...
Type: BriefReport#: 183214Date: November 23, 2022Author:
World Bank
Clear incentives for investors, transparent carbon markets, the backing of a partner with real financial or business clout. These are some of the features IFC believes will make a successful outcome more...
Type: BriefReport#: 177936Date: November 22, 2022Author:
Rosembuj, Flavia
South African employers are increasingly seeking workers with 21st century skills, which can be defined as executive function and socioemotional skills as the workplace shifts toward the service sector,...
Type: BriefReport#: 177854Date: November 18, 2022Author:
World Bank
Quality Early Childhood Education (ECE) harnesses children’s natural ability and motivation to learn, and fosters cognitive and socioemotional skills, executive function, and motivation. A strong foundation...
Type: BriefReport#: 177814Date: November 17, 2022Author:
Bendini,Maria Magdalena ;
Devercelli,Amanda Epstein ;
Ding,Elaine Yi Zhong ;
Kelly,Melissa Diane ;
Pushparatnam,Adelle
Several countries in East Asia have increased fossil fuel subsidies to keep consumer prices lower than currently high international prices. These subsidies are discouraging the shift in consumption away...
Type: BriefReport#: 177801Date: November 16, 2022Author:
Pollitt,Hector Ben ;
Islamaj,Ergys ;
Kitchlu,Rahul ;
Le,Duong Trung ;
Mattoo,Aaditya
This brief focuses on the economic development in Vietnam as of November 2022. Industrial production and retail sales moderated in October as both domestic and external demand slowed. Exports growth slowed...
Type: BriefReport#: 177754Date: November 15, 2022Author:
World Bank
North Macedonia Nowcasting Release: 2022 Q3 (November update) Tracking economic activity in real time is a difficult task for forecasters due to data publication lags, frequent and/or large revisions and...
Type: BriefReport#: 177755Date: November 14, 2022Author:
World Bank
Climate change is eroding human capital across the life cycle, hurting people’s potential, and affecting men, women, and vulnerable groups in different ways. Promoting green, resilient, and inclusive development...
Type: BriefReport#: 177606Date: November 7, 2022Author:
World Bank
Developing East Asia has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past few decades thanks to a combination of policies that fostered outward-oriented and labor-intensive growth, investments in basic...
Type: BriefReport#: 177542Date: November 3, 2022Author:
de Nicola, Francesca
As the world approaches the third anniversary of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, the devastating health, economic, and societal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic remain on every continent. COVID-19 underscored...
Type: BriefReport#: 177543Date: November 3, 2022Author:
World Bank
In Latin America and the Caribbean, the school-to-work transition is more challenging for girls than boys due to societal norms. Young women who drop out of school are more likely to be employed in less...
Type: BriefReport#: 178778Date: November 2, 2022Author:
Diego Javier Ubfal
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has highlighted the risk of underinvestment and shortages in the health workforce, globally. Health workforce shortages offer an opportunity to prepare and employ young...
This brief provides the results of Round 2 (R2) of the Afghanistan Welfare Monitoring Survey (AWMS). The World Bank conducted the survey from June to August 2022 to assess changes in basic living conditions...
Type: BriefReport#: 182568Date: November 1, 2022Author:
Mansuri,Ghazala ;
Cancho,Cesar A. ;
Knippenberg,Erwin Willem Yvonnick Leon ;
Wang,Zihao ;
Dahmani Scuitti,Anais ;
Ahmadzai,Sardar Ghani ;
Gouhari,Pariwash ;
Tareen,Raihana
Vaccination has constituted the most effective response to save lives and reactivate economies and societies. By October 19th, 2022, almost 1,300 million Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine doses...
Type: BriefReport#: 177632Date: November 1, 2022Author:
World Bank ;
United Nations Development Programme ;
Camacho,Adriana ;
Hernandez, Estefany ;
Hernandez, Pablo ;
Herrera Riquelme,Cristian Alberto ;
Dayton,Julia M. ;
Kerr,Amanda Caitlin ;
Ruel Bergeron,Julie ;
Veillard,Jeremy Henri Maurice ;
Kakietek,Jakub Jan
Adaptive safety nets are cash transfer programs that can rapidly increase beneficiary coverage, or the cash amounts they provide in response to disasters. Disaster risk financing (DRF) provides a set of...
Type: BriefReport#: 177767Date: November 1, 2022Author:
Lung, Felix
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) were among the regions most affected by the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020 - despite being home to only 8.5 percent of the world’s population,...
Type: BriefReport#: 177633Date: November 1, 2022Author:
World Bank ;
United Nations Development Programme ;
Mejia-Mantilla,Carolina ;
Rivadeneira Alava,Ana Mercedes ;
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Castaneda Castrillon,Carlos Alberto
Childcare is an essential investment in human capital, both for early childhood development and for advancing female labor force participation. In Bangladesh, there are three primary priorities for the...
Type: BriefReport#: 178312Date: November 1, 2022Author:
Fahmina Rahman ;
Kamra,Anmol
This note assesses the effects of the 2022 floods on human capital in Pakistan. It focuses on the results of a Pakistan-wide phone survey that gathered information on the experiences of approximately 4,000...
Type: BriefReport#: 178350Date: November 1, 2022Author:
Baron,Juan ;
Bend,Mary ;
Roseo,Elena Maria ;
Farrakh,Izza
This Knowledge Brief provides a retrospective mapping of World Bank’s work and achievements on health taxes. Its main purpose is to (i) highlight World Bank health tax projects over the last 10 years (2013...
Type: BriefReport#: 181773Date: October 31, 2022Author:
Renaud,Alice Edmee Marie ;
Bloom,Danielle Elena ;
Ranson,Michael Kent
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