Chinese Taipei has been successful in containing their number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections to one of the lowest levels in the world. They have used many of the precautions, strategies, and systems...
Type: BriefReport#: 155310Date: December 21, 2020Author:
Liou,Yi-Hwa ;
Petrie, Christopher
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and relieve the impacts and protect the welfare of the least-well-off...
Type: BriefReport#: 155287Date: December 21, 2020Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser,Christina
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impact of the crisis and protect the welfare of...
Type: BriefReport#: 155288Date: December 18, 2020Author:
Wieser,Christina ;
Dampha,Nfamara K ;
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Mugera,Harriet Kasidi ;
Tanner,Jeffery
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impact of the crisis and protect the welfare of...
The High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms (HFPS-F) interviews a sample of firms in Addis Ababa every three weeks for a total of eight survey rounds. This high-frequency follow-up allows for a better understanding...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impact of the crisis and protect the welfare of...
The High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms (HFPS-F) interviews a sample of firms in Addis Ababa every three weeks for a total of eight survey rounds. This high-frequency follow-up allows for a better understanding...
This brief summarizes the findings of an allocative efficiency analysis using the Optima TB model and highlights opportunities to improve Malawi’s TB response. The study adopted an innovative design by...
This document provides additional information on the data collected in Armenia between December 2019 and August 2020. The objective of the enterprise survey (ES) is to gain an understanding of what firms...
Sub-Saharan Africa has vast non-fuel mineral resources that in some countries constitute major shares of their gross domestic product. The region also contains large oil and natural gas resources, which...
Type: BriefReport#: 155067Date: December 15, 2020Author:
Galeazzi,Clara ;
Steinbuks,Jevgenijs ;
Cust,James Frederick
Responsible mining can drive economic development, job creation, and poverty alleviation in Colombia. But it is not always clear how the sector can bring economic and social benefits to citizens, particularly...
Type: BriefReport#: 185407Date: December 14, 2020Author:
World Bank
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 COVID-19 crisis...
Uganda is experiencing a displacement shock. It has the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world, including the third largest number of refugees. The greatest concentration of refugees is in Uganda’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 154521Date: December 12, 2020Author:
Mahony,Chris ;
Maher,Barry Patrick
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 COVID-19 crisis...
After a sharp decline in April and May, the labor market began quickly recovering from June to August in the absence of lockdown measures. In August, the number of vacancies posted online recovered to...
Type: BriefReport#: 154945Date: December 11, 2020Author:
Seitz,William Hutchins ;
Rajabov,Alisher
The brief presents the main findings from the fourth of eight rounds of a nationally representative survey of 1,500 randomly selected households in all states/regions of Myanmar. The survey was undertaken...
Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) worked with the World Bank financed PROIRRI Sustainable Irrigation Development project team to tackle the water scarcity challenges in Mozambique by promoting sustainable...
This document provides basic information about the High Frequency Phone Survey of Refugees (HFPS-R), implemented in response to Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Ethiopia. It describes the sampling frame, questionnaire...
Type: BriefReport#: 155294Date: December 6, 2020Author:
Wieser,Christina ;
Dampha,Nfamara K ;
Beltramo,Theresa Parrish ;
Sarr,Ibrahima
This note summarizes the results of simulations of the poverty and welfare impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Armenia. First, the poverty and distributional effects are estimated using a...
This note summarizes the results of simulations of the poverty and welfare impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Georgia, undertaken by the Poverty and Equity team of the World Bank (WB). First, the poverty...
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