For the current study, six rounds of the HFPS-F survey are used, mainly focusing on the business closure module from round six. The six rounds are roughly three weeks apart and were implemented between...
This brief was produced under the World Bank’s Indonesia Covid-19 Observatory, a partnership among multiple Global Practices at the Bank that aims to generate near-real-time insights on the impact of the...
The analysis is based on a sample of 3,058 households in both urban and rural areas in all regions of Ethiopia. The 15-minute interview covers a diverse set of topics such as access to basic services,...
Human capital is central to the World Bank Group's efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030 and raise the incomes of the bottom forty percent of people in each country. The vision of the Human Capital Project...
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. In the outset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis,...
Type: BriefReport#: 154185Date: October 8, 2020Author:
Vidal,Quentin
The Platform Initiative for Western Balkans and Ukraine is a joint effort of the Principals, who are working together on cooperation with partners in the Western Balkans and Ukraine to deliver knowledge...
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level survey to provide quantitative evidence of the impact of the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Three rounds of data have been collected in May, July, and August,...
Monitoring progress towards the World Bank Group's (WBG) goals, eradicating poverty and boosting shared prosperity, is essential to adjust the Bank's portfolio investment decisions and to effectively implement...
Type: BriefReport#: 153750Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Yoshida,Nobuo ;
Malgioglio,Silvia
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and resulting containment measures are likely to cause an economic contraction of about 2.8 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in 2020 according to the Global Economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 153673Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Machasio,Immaculate Nafula
The growth of Pakistan’s start-up ecosystem has resulted in a substantial increase in access to finance through venture capitalists (22 percent of investments) and angel investors (44 percent of investments)....
Type: BriefReport#: 156746Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Joshi,Shalaka Rameshchandra ;
Pandey,Disha
Across the globe, women often face lower income opportunities relative to men. Many of the dierences in economic outcomes can be explained by the sectors in which women tend to operate. Structural factors...
In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), more than 80 percent of workers find their livelihoods in the informal sector. They are artisans and shop owners, fishers and divers, tailors and weavers, truck drivers and...
Digital banks have been on the rise as digital technologies transform financial services around the world. Under the Korean government’s new policy framework for digital banks, K Bank and Kakao Bank successfully...
Type: BriefReport#: 153910Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Choi,Youjin
This note presents the results of the second round of a nationally representative telephone survey (HFPS). Data collection took place between July 20 and August 14, 2020. The 1,968 households that were...
Type: BriefReport#: 156729Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Tsimpo Nkengne,Clarence ;
Tiberti,Marco ;
Backiny-Yetna,Prospere R. ;
Costantini,Marco ;
Koncobo,Zakaria ;
Tiendrebeogo,Adama
This note focuses on how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are affected by the pandemic and are dealing with its impact in Sierra Leone. This note is part of a series that will provide...
Type: BriefReport#: 156648Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Ferber,Tim ;
Buri,Sinja
As part of a global effort led by the World Bank to track the socio-economic impacts of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the living standards measurement study (LSMS) team supports high-frequency phone...
Type: BriefReport#: 160427Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria ;
Siwatu,Gbemisola Oseni ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo ;
Pieters,Janneke ;
Weber,Michael
The world’s stocks of natural resources its natural capital and the rich ecosystem it provides support business and economies to the tune of forty-four trillion in economic value each year. Yet the enormous...
Type: BriefReport#: 154595Date: October 1, 2020Author:
White,Elizabeth M. ;
Rahill,Bilal H. ;
Gough,Mark ;
Spurgeon,James Philip Giles
As of October 12, the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic appears well controlled as the country has registered 1,100 infections and only 35 deaths since early February. So far, there had been no community...
This note builds on previous collaboration between the World Bank Group and UNICEF to estimate the global extent of child poverty. We estimate that in 2017, 17.5 percent of children in the world (or 356...
Type: BriefReport#: 153735Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Silwal,Ani Rudra ;
Engilbertsdottir,Solrun ;
Cuesta Leiva,Jose Antonio ;
Newhouse,David Locke ;
Stewart,David
This brief focuses on the macro poverty outlook for Russia as of October 2020. A less than expected gross domestic product (GDP) contraction in the second quarter of 2020 and an upward revision of the...
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