The Ethiopian high-frequency phone survey of households (HFPS-HH) allows for a better understanding of the effects of COVID-19 on households and provides data in almost real time to support new responses...
Type: BriefReport#: 153442Date: September 25, 2020Author:
Wieser,Christina ;
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Bundervoet,Tom ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile
As countries make decisions to reopen schools, there are unique considerations related to opening early childhood education (ECE) settings with holistic approaches to nurturing care and learning for young...
Type: BriefReport#: 153402Date: September 25, 2020Author:
UNICEF ;
World Bank ;
UNESCO
TDLC was launched in Tokyo in 2004 under a partnership between the Government of Japan and the World Bank. TDLC is a global one-stop knowledge hub for urban development, seeking to operationalize knowledge...
Type: BriefReport#: 153273Date: September 24, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on households have created an urgent need for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
Type: BriefReport#: 154358Date: September 21, 2020Author:
Siwatu,Gbemisola Oseni ;
Palacios-Lopez,Amparo ;
Mcgee,Kevin Robert ;
Amankwah,Akuffo ;
Contreras Gonzalez,Ivette Maria ;
Vishwanath,Tara ;
Lain,Jonathan William ;
Jenq,Christina ;
Azad,Mohammad Abul Kalam-1228442
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. Coronavirus (COVID-19) led to prolonged school closures...
Type: BriefReport#: 153540Date: September 17, 2020Author:
Batra,Garima ;
Nangia,Aditi ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
Bangladesh has shown great leadership and generosity by providing shelter to around 1.1 million Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar district. This has placed immense strain on existing infrastructure and social service...
Type: BriefReport#: 152945Date: September 14, 2020
Bangladesh has made significant progress across a range of health, nutrition, and population (HNP) indicators, achieving wide coverage of high-impact interventions (such as immunization, oral rehydration...
Type: BriefReport#: 152943Date: September 14, 2020
Bangladesh achieved its millennium development goals targets of halving the population without access to improved drinking water sources three years ahead of time and showed impressive progress in sanitation...
Type: BriefReport#: 152942Date: September 14, 2020
Cities in Bangladesh, especially the capital Dhaka, are characterized by rapid population growth which leads to deficit in infrastructures and service deliveries resulting in poor living conditions. Dhaka...
Type: BriefReport#: 152944Date: September 14, 2020
The first round of survey results reported in the Myanmar Coronavirus (COVID-19) monitoring platform revealed that impacts on employment between March and May 2020 were significant. Households had become...
Type: BriefReport#: 153169Date: September 11, 2020
While efforts are currently in place to collect data on the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, this note looks at the experience of the 2008 financial crisis to gain insights on possible differential...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the first pandemic since the world’s population consisted of more people aged over 65 than under five. COVID-19 fatality rises sharply with age: over 95 percent of...
Type: BriefReport#: 161022Date: September 10, 2020Author:
Arai,Yuko
This document, the World Bank Group Code of Ethics (the Code), is derived directly from WBG core values. The Code sets out broader principles that align to our values. It describes the ethical norms and...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic crisis combines the worst characteristics of previous crises. It features a simultaneous supply and demand shock; domestic, regional, and global scope; a projected long...
Type: BriefReport#: 152797Date: September 7, 2020Author:
Loayza,Norman V. ;
Sanghi,Apurva ;
Shaharuddin,Nurlina Binti ;
Wuester,Lucie Johanna
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its negative economic effects create a need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis. To monitor the...
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 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...
Pakistan put in place two educational television (TV) programming initiatives as remote learning tools during the COVID-19 school closures. Pakistan’s Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training...
Type: BriefReport#: 152937Date: September 2, 2020Author:
Zacharia,Sharon
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level survey to provide quantitative evidence of the impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Myanmar. Two rounds of data have now been collected for the months...
When Saudi Arabia’s schools closed on March 9, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Education and Training Evaluation Commission (ETEC) rapidly brought forward plans to convert its high-stakes Standardized...
Type: BriefReport#: 152938Date: September 2, 2020Author:
Al-Qataee, Abdullah ;
Aljabri, Nayyaf ;
Gregory,Laura ;
Kazem,Amira Mohamed Ibrahim
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