High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that Covid-19 awareness was widespread in Ethiopia at the start of the outbreak and prevention measures have been taken over time. People lost jobs at the onset...
This brief presents initial findings from an ongoing phone survey of families in Punjab, Pakistan designed to assess what is happening to girls’ elementary school education during COVID-19. The data used...
Croatia’s poverty rates have closely tracked overall economic growth over the past decade. Following weak economic growth in the after math of the global crisis in 2008, the share of the Croatian population...
This note presents the results of the eighth round of a nationally representative telephone survey (HFPS). The BFA istered during the 8th visit: access to basic services; early childhood development for...
Type: BriefReport#: 167943Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Tiberti,Marco ;
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Costantini,Marco ;
Koncobo,Zakaria ;
Tiendrebeogo, et Adama
This note proposes a high-level framework to assess challenges and policy options to enabling private sector-led investment in 5G connectivity in emerging markets. 5G is the latest mobile network technology...
Type: BriefReport#: 159249Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien ;
Rossotto,Carlo Maria ;
Strusani,Davide
The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) has accelerated efforts by practitioners to rapidly move learning, skills building, and mentoring online. Practitioners need to address how they will...
Type: BriefReport#: 158369Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Ritter,Frederic Leon ;
Singh,Sunamika ;
Datta,Namita
The national poverty rate in Russia has been slowly declining in recent years: from 12.9 percent in 2017, 12.6 percent in 2018 to 12.3 percent in 2019. In May 2018 decree, Russia’s president set up a target...
More people around the world are dying from noncommunicable diseases than ever before. These diseases, which include cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, and heart disease, prematurely kill...
Residential buildings make up a significant proportion of total buildings in Jordan and is the fastest growing subset. The sector dominates electricity use, accounting for 46 percent of total electricity...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting businesses on a national and global scale. As governments introduced measures to contain the domestic spread of the virus, restrictions on...
Type: BriefReport#: 174861Date: March 31, 2021Author:
Ferber,Tim ;
Buri,Sinja
Tes Cepat is an adaptive student learning assessment instrument, which can be administered by parents and community members to provide a low-stakes and frequent means to benchmark student aptitude. Individual...
This note discusses the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and related school closures on primary students’ access to learning in Nepal. The primary source of data is a phone-survey with households that...
Economists disagree on many things, but there is an universal consensus in the field that education is key for long-term growth and development. Evidence strongly suggests that what really matters for...
The World Bank Group’s Women Business and the Law (WBL) project, Global Disability Advisor, and Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) Global Practice are carrying out a joint project focused on better...
Type: BriefReport#: 192600Date: March 26, 2021Author:
World Bank
The High-Frequency Phone Survey for refugees in Uganda (URHFPS) tracks the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on refugees. The World Bank (WB) in collaboration with the Uganda Bureau of Statistics...
Type: BriefReport#: 157786Date: March 26, 2021Author:
Atamanov,Aziz ;
Yoshida,Nobuo ;
Alemi, Charles ;
Beltramo,Theresa Parrish ;
Ilukor,John ;
Rios Rivera,Laura Abril ;
Sarr, Ibrahima ;
Hamud Said, Ally ;
Waita, Peter ;
Yoshimura,Kazusa
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