The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the important role digital financial services (DFS) can play in reducing disruptions to supply chains, maintaining economic activity, supporting social transfers and ensuring...
Type: BriefReport#: 172373Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Engin,Ebru ;
Sossouvi,Kokoevi Ablavi
This discussion note summarizes India’s efforts to strengthen the land rights of poor and vulnerable farmers through land leasing reform and provides recommendations to ensure that tenant, women, and Dalit...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the important role digital financial services (DFS) can play in reducing disruptions to supply chains, maintaining economic activity, supporting social transfers and ensuring...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the important role digital financial services (DFS) can play in reducing disruptions to supply chains, maintaining economic activity, supporting social transfers and ensuring...
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on a...
The June 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics : The fourth outbreak of coronavirus has led to the sharpest rise in number of COVID-19 cases since they pandemic broke out...
Value Chain Development (VCD) approaches, and building country capacity to adopt them, represent important operational tools to help World Bank client countries harness private sector potential and remove...
Type: BriefReport#: 161241Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Weber,Michael ;
Salhab,Jade
Financial inclusion occurs when adults have access to appropriate, affordable, and well-regulated financial services to meet their needs effectively and improve their lives. Financial inclusion is a growing...
Type: BriefReport#: 161098Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Hess,Jake Richard ;
Klapper,Leora ;
Beegle,Kathleen G.
In 2019, the Government of Paraguay (GOP) embarked on a comprehensive tax reform to simplify and modernize its tax system. At the request of the Ministry of Finance (MOF), and building on long-standing...
Type: BriefReport#: 162490Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Canavire Bacarreza,Gustavo Javier ;
Corral Rodas,Paul Andres ;
Farfan Bertran,Maria Gabriela ;
Galeano, Juan Jose ;
Gayoso,Lyliana ;
Piontkivsky,Ruslan ;
Sacco Capurro,Flavia Giannina
Family-friendly working arrangements and policies represent a win-win situation for both companies and their employees. Extensive research by International Finance Corporation (IFC) and others demonstrates...
This note presents the findings of the ninth round of a nationally representative telephone survey (HFPS). The BFA COVID-19 HFPS – Round 9 was administered between April 20 and May 2, 2021. In addition...
Type: BriefReport#: 167949Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Tiberti,Marco ;
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Costantini,Marco ;
Koncobo,Zakaria ;
Tiendrebeogo, et Adama
Land use fees and agricultural income tax in Ethiopia are levied on rural landholders according to the size of agricultural landholdings. Summarizing the evidence presented in the authors paper based on...
Type: BriefReport#: 162031Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Komatsu,Hitomi ;
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Koolwal,Gayatri B. ;
Yonis,Manex Bule
Peru has achieved near-universal access to schooling, but learning outcomes are generally poor and vary widely between rural and urban schools. Rural schools tend to be small, with one teacher overseeing...
This note presents the result of the tenth round of a nationally representative telephone survey. Data collection took place between May 25 and June 17, 2021. In addition to the 1,971 households successfully...
Type: BriefReport#: 167952Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Tiberti,Marco ;
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Costantini,Marco ;
Koncobo,Zakaria ;
Tiendrebeogo, et Adama
Language shapes people’s perceptions. Discriminatory language in reference to undocumented migrants in the public discourse leads to perceptions and actions which negatively impact their daily realities....
Type: BriefReport#: 193102Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Crépeau, François ;
Vezmar, Maja
As infections spiked across Southeast Asia, the number of confirmed cases in Lao PDR surged from fewer than 50 cases in early April to over 6,000 cases in August 2021. The government of Lao PDR announced...
This brief summarizes findings from rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. Two rounds of tracking surveys were implemented via phone interviews in 2020 to monitor the impacts of the Coronavirus...
Increasing temperatures and growing rainfall variability will negatively affect crop yields. For example, overall rice crop yields in 2040 are expected to be 4 percent lower than today while wheat and...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its effects on households create an urgent need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...
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