Prior to COVID-19, Eswatini faced numerous developmental challenges with stagnating poverty and economic growth. Lockdown measures were
introduced from 17 March, including schools closures, limitations...
The Edcamp model is built on the idea that teachers can learn from and inspire one another to enhance their professional skills with the goal of improving student outcomes. Edcamps are a participatory...
Type: BriefReport#: 152076Date: August 24, 2020Author:
Modica, Allison
The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. At the outset of school closures, the French...
Second and more importantly, MOET began to broadcast school lessons on 1 national and 27 provincial TV channels all over the country. Local education agencies were in charge of developing and producing...
Type: BriefReport#: 152571Date: August 24, 2020Author:
Hoang, Hanh Phuong ;
Vinh,Le Anh ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
As the world faces its most significant health and economic crisis in almost one hundred years, international cooperation and global integration face their own watershed moment. Large developed economies...
Type: BriefReport#: 152015Date: August 24, 2020Author:
Nixon, Stewart
This brief has been 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...
Type: BriefReport#: 154140Date: August 20, 2020Author:
Doarest,Aufa ;
Kamphuis,Bertine
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...
This study contributes to the broader literature demonstrating the devastating impact of floods on the poor, particularly women, making it very difficult to move out of poverty. Research on flood impacts...
Type: BriefReport#: 151755Date: August 13, 2020Author:
Kristof,Mariano Jordan ;
Ramirez,Maria Catalina ;
Pereira,Leda ;
Couvin,Sabrina Giselle
International Finance Corporation (IFC’s) banking on women business provides financing and expertise to emerging market financial institutions to expand financial services and opportunities for women customers...
Type: BriefReport#: 151746Date: August 13, 2020Author:
Schnabel,Jessica A. ;
Mcnally,John Philip
This brief focuses on how IFC’s environmental and social performance standards support gender equality and help combat gender-based violence. Addressing gender equality and gender-based violence (GBV)...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) 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...
The Coronavirus (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...
Type: BriefReport#: 151756Date: August 11, 2020Author:
Wieser,Christina ;
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Bundervoet,Tom ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile
The Coronavirus (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...
Type: BriefReport#: 151756Date: August 11, 2020Author:
Wieser,Christina ;
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Bundervoet,Tom ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile
Peru’s school year runs from mid-March to mid-December. Everything was ready to start classes on 16 March 2020; instead, the President announced a strict lockdown. The country only had 86 COVID-19 cases...
It is critical to ensure that the World Bank portfolio is well targeted to areas with the greatest needs and with greatest potential to maximize development benefits. The Project Targeting Index (PTI)...
Type: BriefReport#: 151397Date: August 3, 2020Author:
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Masaki,Takaaki
Boosting shared prosperity also means including disadvantaged groups in the labor market. While many factors can hinder labor force participation, behavioral factors have emerged as key barriers in the...
Type: BriefReport#: 151395Date: August 3, 2020Author:
Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis ;
Gaddis,Isis ;
Ranzani,Marco ;
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel
While Africa is increasingly connected, regional e-commerce penetration remains low because of gaps in connectivity and trust in online payment systems. To succeed, Jumia Group has had to adapt its e-commerce...
Founded in 1999, Mercado Libre is the largest online commerce ecosystem in Latin America, serving as an integrated regional platform and provider of online and technology tools that allow businesses and...
A subsidiary of Alibaba Group’s Ant Financial Services, MYbank was established in 2015 with a focus on serving small, and medium enterprises (SMEs )and farmers. The platform was among the first batch of...
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