On September 1, the government relaxed lockdown measures as the number of new Coronavirus disease (COVID) cases declined. However, confidence remained subdued due to health concerns and the low vaccination...
Type: BriefReport#: 164340Date: September 22, 2021Author:
Ariyapruchya, Kiatipong ;
Edwards, Kim Alan ;
Puthong, Warunthorn
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a double shock – health and economic. It has cost millions of lives and triggered a global economic recession surpassing any economic downturn since World War II. In the...
Type: BriefReport#: 164204Date: September 20, 2021
Women are underrepresented in jobs in natural resources sectors. For example, only 5 to 10 percent of those employed in large-scale mining projects globally are women. Women-owned businesses are also...
Type: BriefReport#: 163971Date: September 14, 2021
Among unemployed youth in South Africa, approximately 50 percent have not completed secondary education and have limited or no work experience. In this context, reliable signals of worker qualifications...
Type: BriefReport#: 163940Date: September 14, 2021
The Solomon Island’s Community Access and Urban Services Enhancement (CAUSE) project, with the support of UFGE, undertook a study which identified a set of 18 recommendations to increase the participation...
Type: BriefReport#: 163939Date: September 14, 2021
Some of the findings of round 4 of the Georgia High Frequency Survey (GHFS) include the following: COVID-19 (coronavirus) cases have been concentrated in densely populated urban areas. By June 2021, twenty-three...
Type: BriefReport#: 163864Date: September 8, 2021Author:
Fuchs Tarlovsky, Alan ;
Gonzalez Icaza, Maria Fernanda ;
Nozaki, Natsuko Kiso ;
Timilsina, Laxman
Pratham Education Foundation’s flagship program develops basic reading, writing, and numeracy skills in children ages 6 - 14 through fun, hands-on activities that have been shown to improve learning. The...
Type: BriefReport#: 163866Date: September 8, 2021Author:
World Bank
Mozambique is one of the thirty highest tuberculosis (TB) burden countries in the world with respect to total incidence. Active case finding programs in Mozambique have been expanding, and community-based...
Type: BriefReport#: 163890Date: September 8, 2021Author:
Abeysuriya, Romesh ;
Cheikh, Nejma ;
Cossa, Humberto Albino ;
Fraser-Hurt, Nicole ;
Gorgens, Marelize ;
Jone, Jorge ;
Kedziora, David ;
Kelly, Sherrie ;
Machava, Raimundo ;
Macuacua, Bachir ;
Manhica, Ivan ;
Martin-Hughes, Rowan ;
Roberts, Anna ;
Shubber, Zara ;
Vu, Lung Duy ;
Wilson, David ;
Wilson, David P ;
Zindoga, Pereira
The goal of the program is to improve early grade reading learning outcomes for 7 million children in Grades 1, 2, and 3 in Kenya. Program target are classroom teachers, head teachers in Grades 1-3 and...
Type: BriefReport#: 163865Date: September 8, 2021Author:
World Bank
The deep global recession induced by Covid-19 (coronavirus) is putting at risk the gains in poverty reduction made over the past three decades. The ability of existing social protection programs to prevent...
Type: BriefReport#: 163623Date: September 2, 2021Author:
Pfutze, Tobias
The Africa, Caribbean, Pacific-European Union Natural Disaster Risk Reduction (ACP-EU NDRR) Program, which was launched in October 2011, is an initiative of the Organization of African, Caribbean and Pacific...
In Western Uganda, women farmers and their households were facing widespread agricultural and non-agricultural income shocks in September 2020, indicating a protracted crisis. To cope with these shocks,...
Type: BriefReport#: 165302Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Gruver, Ariel Rose ;
Montalvao Machado, Joao H. C. ;
O'Sullivan, Michael B. ;
Sharma, Ambika
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (coronavirus), which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 164311Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Vundru, Wilbert Drazi
Global economic activity continued to lose momentum in August as recovery leveled off and the new Delta variant outbreak applied the brakes on services, while commodity prices have been volatile and spiking...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) high-frequency phone survey (HFPS) 2020 was conducted in 13 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador,...
Type: BriefReport#: 164110Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Flores Cruz, Ramiro Alejandro
This brief summarizes findings on labor market impacts of COVID-19 from the second round of the Bangladesh COVID-19 phone monitoring survey, a collaborative effort by the World Bank and UNICEF that was...
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 (coronavirus), which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the important role digital financial services (DFS) can play in reducing disruptions to supply chains, maintaining economic activity, supporting social transfers and ensuring...
Type: BriefReport#: 172364Date: September 1, 2021Author:
Biallas, Margarete O. ;
Sossouvi, Kokoevi Ablavi
The September 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring discusses some of the following topics : The April 2021 COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak worsened in August with the number of new infections and deaths rising...
This note does a deep dive into the music industry and provides a situational analysis of the music landscape in Africa. It highlights how the music industry could provide economic opportunities for youth...
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