Advancing gender equality and empowering women and girls is critically important for realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 13, which focuses on combating climate change and its impact,...
Deep tech companies aim to address the world’s biggest challenges. These include providing Internet access to the unconnected, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, significantly increasing productivity gains...
The findings are based on the survey of 13,878 firms conducted from November 26 to December 10, 2020, to assess the impacts of COVID-19 on firms. This survey builds on a government survey in April 2020...
Type: BriefReport#: 158007Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Piza,Sharon Faye Alariao ;
Lee,Jinkook ;
Frias,Jaime Andres Uribe ;
Qian,Rong ;
Cho,Yoonyoung
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#: 154502Date: November 1, 2020Author:
World Bank
Human capital is the combination of knowledge, skills and health that people accumulate throughout their lives, which allows them to realize their potential as productive members of society. The productivity...
A technical team worked with local partners to strengthen flood forecasting in the Oti River through the development of a forecasting model and early warning system, as well as knowledge exchange with...
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, has launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on...
Type: BriefReport#: 154795Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi
The World Bank’s Strategic Impact Evaluation Fund supported a randomized controlled trial from 2015-2018 to assess the extent to which subsidized microloans can enable households to build and use improved...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has had strong and lasting impacts on livelihoods of Kenyan households, with employment and income levels only slowly recovering. Most households had to implement multiple...
Type: BriefReport#: 156817Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Delius,Antonia Johanna Sophie ;
Khandelwal,Ritika ;
Gupta,Rhea
Post-MERS (Middle East respiratory syndrome) legislative and regulatory reforms enhanced the public health preparedness and response system in the Republic of Korea. Investment in strengthening the Korea...
This note examines the effects of COVID-19 and subsequent economic and educational disruptions on adolescent well-being in Bangladesh. The analysis is based on data from 2,095 in-school adolescents aged...
Type: BriefReport#: 154398Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Baird,Sarah Jane ;
Seager, Jennifer ;
Sabarwal,Shwetlena ;
Guglielmi, Silvia ;
Sultan,Maheen
Over the past decade, Burkina Faso has experienced sustained economic growth driven by domestic factors such as consumption and investment on the demand side and services on the supply side, and export...
Geospatial information technology has emerged as a major contributor to economic transformation for many countries. Established along with the E-government drive, the National Spatial Data Infrastructure...
Type: BriefReport#: 154724Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Ju,Bora ;
Kelm,Kathrine M.
The unprecedented and ongoing scale-up of social protection responses to the COVID-19 pandemic dwarf the response to the Great Recession. But how are countries financing such scale-up efforts? This note...
Building urban resilience in Morocco at both the local and national level has helped to increase the application of risk information in public policy and investment planning, informed government policy...
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