As across the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, the COVID-19 pandemic took a significant toll on Ecuador, both economically and socially. Halts in economic activity during the first semester of...
Type: BriefReport#: 182946Date: April 1, 2022Author:
Olivieri,Sergio Daniel ;
Rivadeneira Alava,Ana Mercedes
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
The World Bank’s South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab is conducting a systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or indirect effects on measures of women’s economic empowerment....
Type: BriefReport#: 170383Date: April 1, 2022Author:
Javed,Amna ;
Zahra,Najaf ;
Munoz Boudet,Ana Maria
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
These RAP 2021 updates offer in-depth data on performance and outcomes ratings for every Region and World Bank Practice Group. Each update includes trend analyses; a breakdown of ratings by instrument,...
Type: BriefReport#: 166168Date: April 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
The World Bank is providing technical and financial support to countries to help mitigate the spread and impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One area of support is for data collection to inform...
Textbooks and supplementary reading materials can help strengthen literacy skills, but teachers remain the most important input for learning. In many countries, they do not have the knowledge and skills...
Type: BriefReport#: 170284Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
This note focuses on household level impacts of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Solomon Islands for the first half of 2021 based on data from the third round of the World Bank’s High Frequency Phone Surveys...
Type: BriefReport#: 172242Date: March 31, 2022Author:
Johnson,Darcey Jeanne Genou ;
Naidoo,Darian ;
Wokker,Christopher Jan ;
Zheng,Shuwen
In contrast with the rest of Latin America and the Caribbean, Brazil’s poverty rate is estimated to have decreased between 2019 and 2020 to 13.1 percent. Auxílio Emergencial (AE), a large emergency cash...
Colombia has significantly increased its investments in education over the last two decades, producing modest gains in its international standardized test scores. Yet in 2015, nearly 40 percent of students...
Type: BriefReport#: 170282Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
The City Resilience Program was instrumental in strengthening the World Bank’s National Urban Cadaster and Municipal Support Project (US50 million dollars, approved in 2020). The project strengthens urban...
Type: BriefReport#: 170346Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Tunisia’s economic outlook remains highly uncertain. The economic rebound in 2021 was relatively moderate. Debt sustainability concerns remained acute due to elevated fiscal deficits and financing needs....
Type: BriefReport#: 171183Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
This policy brief presents the main findings of the report “Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks. The report focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking...
Type: BriefReport#: 169989Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
South Africa has a respectable literacy rate of 87 percent for older children, but the number masks underlying problems. Roughly four-fifths of 10-year-olds are not proficient in reading. A majority of...
Type: BriefReport#: 170264Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
At the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, there was global concern about the negative indirect impacts the crisis would have on girls and women and their human capital. Two years into the crisis,...
Type: BriefReport#: 170844Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Nepal enjoys near-universal access to education, but its 20,000-plus primary schools struggle to provide effective learning, with 60 percent of grade 2 students not able to read a single word of a short...
Type: BriefReport#: 170283Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Croatia’s long-term care (LTC) needs will increase substantially in years to come, limiting the country’s productivity, increasing poverty, and compromising the sustainability of the health and social...
Type: BriefReport#: 172259Date: March 31, 2022Author:
Rupasinghe,Yoshini Naomi ;
Schack,Maya Viviane ;
Bolongaita,Sarah Ann ;
Crnomarkovic,Aleksandar
This report is the first output informed by a systematic review into outcomes-based contracting being undertaken by Ecorys and the GO Lab, supplemented by four additional sources of data: 1) existing technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 171134Date: March 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
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