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
Vietnam reacted early to the spread of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) by imposing social distancing measures and mobility restrictions, culminating in a national lockdown in April 2020. In order to understand...
Type: BriefReport#: 153486Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Tan,Shawn Weiming ;
Tran,Trang
This note discusses five main types of interventions that can help support growth and job creation in the orange economy: nurturing human capital, providing access to finance, expanding access to market,...
Type: BriefReport#: 180888Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Hatayama,Maho ;
Datta,Namita
Recent economic growth In Mauritania has helped reduce poverty, but spatial disparities in terms of both monetary welfare and access to services and opportunities remain. Designing policies and projects...
Type: BriefReport#: 152803Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Dahmani Scuitti,Anais ;
Doyle,Jesse Jon Gerome ;
Lefebvre,Matthieu Boris ;
Meyer,Moritz ;
Rajashekar,Anirudh Venkatanarayan
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (HFPS COVID-19), a monthly survey of a nationally representative...
Type: BriefReport#: 153215Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Vundru,Wilbert Drazi ;
Moylan,Heather G.
Since 2011, the Armenian government has implemented a national performance-based financing scheme which has given financial incentives to providers for screening the population, including for hypertension...
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the Ethiopian economy, a major concern is that the pre-existing gendered challenges facing women entrepreneurs, in access to capital and hired labor, for example, will...
The current crisis is upending livelihoods, damaging business and government balance sheets, and threatening to reverse sub-Saharan Africa’s development gains and growth prospects for years to come. The...
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (HFPS COVID-19), a monthly survey of a nationally representative...
Half of the world’s population remains without access to essential health services, with many individuals driven into poverty each year by out-of-pocket health expenses. UNCTAD estimates that to meet health-related...
More than 1 billion people worldwide, or 15 percent of the global population, have some form of disability, with higher rates in low-income countries. This number is expected to rise significantly due...
Type: BriefReport#: 152554Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Ghosh Moulik,Soma ;
Koyama,Ayumi
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting economic shutdown have severely depressed electricity demand across the globe, with acute consequences for the revenues and financial health of utilities,...
Type: BriefReport#: 154594Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Apfalter,Stefan ;
Hommes,Martin ;
Torres Pereira Mendes,Joaquim Miguel ;
Toba,Natsuko
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic is first a public health crisis, but one with profound economic consequences for Africa. Successful measures to curtail the spread of the virus have led to a contraction...
A quick glance at agricultural input use data from developing countries reveals a large dispersion in take up of improved inputs and practices across farms. One explanation is that this is a problem resulting...
This note focuses on how micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) are affected by the pandemic and are dealing with its impact in Guinea. This note is part of a series that will provide snapshots...
Type: BriefReport#: 156523Date: September 1, 2020Author:
Ferber,Tim ;
Buri,Sinja
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is currently implementing the Gazetted Forests Participatory Management Project for REDD+, with the objective of improving the carbon sequestration capacity of gazetted...
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Gazetted Forests Participatory Management Project for REDD+ aims to address two pressing developmental objectives in Burkina Faso namely, improving the carbon sequestration...
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has significantly affected many economies throughout the world, but there are some brighter signs in Vietnam. To monitor the social and economic effects on households amid the pandemic,...
Social and family networks play an important role as informal safety nets in Sub-Saharan Africa and other development contexts, with relatives, friends, colleagues, and neighbors sharing financial resources....
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