This knowledge brief highlights the relevance and challenges of business incubation services for youth in rural areas. It is based on discussions during an operations clinic that was organized jointly...
Type: BriefReport#: 180862Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Singh,Sunamika ;
Datta,Namita
The health system in Serbia faces significant challenges arising from a long-term demographic trend and recent shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Serbia’s population is aging, with the share of population...
Type: BriefReport#: 180464Date: February 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
Guyana is highly vulnerable to sea level rise and increased flooding due to climate change and a lack of development and maintenance across its drainage system. For these reasons, planning and engaging...
Type: BriefReport#: 170179Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Cambodia’s schools have long struggled to get enough of the right textbooks to students for each new school year. Some issues trace back to the book supply chain, which has traditionally used a cumbersome,...
Type: BriefReport#: 170291Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
To monitor the social and economic effects on households during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank is conducting High-Frequency Phone Surveys of Households in Vietnam. These monitoring data help generate...
Type: BriefReport#: 170508Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Agriculture plays a vital role in the economy of Georgia despite the relatively small size of the sector. Agriculture is the country’s largest employer and makes a significant contribution to exports even...
Type: BriefReport#: 168241Date: January 28, 2022Author:
World Bank
Omicron cases surged as Thailand neared its end-2021 mass vaccination target of seventy percent. The government tightened international travel restrictions but refrained from reimposing a national lockdown...
Type: BriefReport#: 168040Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Puthong,Warunthorn
With the recent surge in infection and fatality rates, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to pose serious risks to the health and economic wellbeing of Ethiopians. Early on, Ethiopia...
Type: BriefReport#: 168175Date: January 18, 2022Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser,Christina
Results from the Myanmar firm survey round 9 indicate that the business environment remained vulnerable. In October 2021, firms re-ported that profit declined by an average of 66 percent compared to January...
Type: BriefReport#: 168089Date: January 16, 2022Author:
World Bank
This note explores findings on the changing household dynamics in response to the mandated Coronavirus (COVID-19) school closures in Punjab, Pakistan. The SMS girl impact evaluation and a complementing...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is affecting businesses on a national and global scale. International and local restrictions to limit the spread of the virus have had severe economic impact...
Type: BriefReport#: 174879Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Murken,Niklas Alexej ;
Buri,Sinja ;
Te Vogt,Sten
Sustainability-linked finance is designed to incentivize the borrower’s achievement of environmental, social, or governance targets through pricing incentives. Launched in 2017, it has now become the fastest-growing...
Type: BriefReport#: 168045Date: January 1, 2022Author:
De La Orden Lopez,Raquel ;
De Calonje,Ignacio
Despite near-universal access to financial services in advanced economies, financial exclusion is stubbornly persistent in many emerging markets, leaving huge swaths of low-income populations unbanked...
Type: BriefReport#: 168046Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Rose Innes,Cleo Elize ;
Andrieu,Jacqueline
This knowledge brief focuses on platforms that have leveraged novel digital technologies to deliver location agnostic mentoring solutions to youth. The authors explore six key operational areas where innovations...
Type: BriefReport#: 180863Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Singh,Sunamika ;
Datta,Namita
Greater data flows facilitated by the proliferation of broadband connectivity can serve as a driver for economic recovery and long-term growth of the private sector, modernization of public service delivery,...
Type: BriefReport#: 168130Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Srinivasan,Sharada
Ethiopia, the second-most populous nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, is one of the fastest-growing economies in the region and aims to achieve lower middle-income status by 2025. For the country to continue...
Type: BriefReport#: 184079Date: January 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
This brief summarizes findings on labor market impacts of COVID-19 from the third round of the rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. These rapid phone surveys are built on the Cox’s Bazar Panel...
Type: BriefReport#: 168574Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
This brief summarizes findings on labor market impacts of COVID-19 from the third round of the rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. These rapid phone surveys are built on the Cox’s Bazar Panel...
Type: BriefReport#: 168577Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
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