Females students make up the majority (68 percent) of university graduates in Tunisia, and both female and male graduates join the labor market in comparable numbers. However, once in the labor market...
Textbooks are one of the most important tools to help students to learn, but Cambodia’s textbook supply chain has several weak points. New textbooks typically do not arrive in time for the start of the...
Social bonds have become an increasingly popular fixed-income product since the Social Bond Principles were published in 2017, and their growth and popularity have accelerated in recent months due to the...
Type: BriefReport#: 154545Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Peeters,Johanna Sophie ;
Schmitt,Maud Louise Anne ;
Volk,Ariane Tamara
Green Delta Insurance Company (GDIC), a private non-life insurer in Bangladesh, was founded as a public limited company in December 1985. In 2013, GDIC became the first South Asian insurance company to...
Type: BriefReport#: 157061Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Sherchan,Prapti ;
Ebrahimi,Sarah Anne ;
Diop,Fatim
The livelihoods of vulnerable rural households in fragile environments such as Niger and the wider Sahel have been strongly affected by the unprecedented circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. As traditional...
Type: BriefReport#: 183704Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Riquet,Corinne ;
Anderson,Jamie Barbara
The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic and associated containment measures are expected to cause far-reaching damage to economies around the world. Firms are suffering from reduced demand due to movement restrictions,...
Type: BriefReport#: 151982Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean ;
Brockmeyer,Anne ;
McNabb,Kyle ;
Semelet,Camille Marine
Pacific Island countries have substantial natural resources, they are rich in cultural diversity and are rapidly increasing their trade and digital links with global markets. However, Pacific countries...
Lazada has always been supporting the female community in Southeast Asia, from providing selling opportunities on our platform to hiring women riders among our courier fleet. We strongly believe that when...
The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic and associated containment measures are expected to cause far-reaching damage to economies around the world. Firms are suffering from reduced demand due to movement restrictions,...
Type: BriefReport#: 151978Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean ;
Brockmeyer,Anne ;
Harris,Tom ;
Semelet,Camille Marine
The private sector of a country is crucial to its economic growth and prosperity. This is particularly true of developing countries as the vast majority of formal and informal jobs are generated within...
Type: BriefReport#: 154784Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Dall'Aglio,Chiara ;
Hayati,Fayavar ;
Lee,David James
This document provides additional information on the data collected in Armenia between December 2019 and August 2020. The survey was part of a joint project of the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
The path to becoming an advanced economy can be a difficult one that is fraught with obstacles, traps, and frequent reversals. Yet in the past half century several East Asian nations have completed the...
Type: BriefReport#: 154593Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Lin,Justin ;
Cader,Masud Z. ;
Pietronero,Luciano
2012 was a big year for Salesforce. The cloud computing company based in San Francisco announced a stream of acquisitions amid robust financial results that included 37 percent revenue growth and the addition...
In India, Google’s Internet saathi program provides women in rural communities with a two-day training on digital literacy to become Internet saathis - a term meaning friend in Hindi. These saathis then...
The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic and associated containment measures are expected to cause far-reaching damage to economies around the world. Firms are suffering from reduced demand due to movement restrictions,...
Type: BriefReport#: 151980Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean ;
Brockmeyer,Anne ;
Lakicevic,Milan ;
Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias ;
Semelet,Camille Marine
This document provides additional information on the data collected in Armenia between December 2019 and August 2020. The survey was part of a joint project of the European Bank for Reconstruction and...
Founded in 2012, the Grab offers on-demand ride-hailing, logistics, and financial services in eight countries, hosting more than 9 million microentrepreneurs and contributing approximately 8.5 billion...
SMEs around the world are entering a crisis period in light of COVID-19, adding new urgency to understanding firm-level financial behaviors and challenges. At the same time, traditional methods of in-person...
The United States has Silicon Valley. Kenya has the Silicon Savannah, a regional and, increasingly, a global hub of information and communications technology (ICT). Since 2016, Kenya’s ICT sector has grown...
The ability to access the internet has increasingly become an important tool for poverty reduction, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite its importance, measuring internet use in low-income...
Type: BriefReport#: 151394Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Frankfurter,Zoe Jordan Tillman ;
Kokoszka,Klaudia ;
Newhouse,David Locke ;
Silwal,Ani Rudra ;
Tian,Siwei
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