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Increasing Taxes on Tobacco in Low and Middle-Income Countries : Hurting or Saving the Poor?

Policy makers hesitate to increase tobacco taxes over concerns about taxes being regressive and potentially increasing poverty and inequality. This note summarizes a set of studies of the effects of raising...
Type: Brief Report#: 151248 Date: July 1, 2020 Author: Fuchs Tarlovsky,Alan ; Gonzalez Icaza, María Fernanda
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Comoros Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Comoros and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151075 Date: July 1, 2020
COVID-19 in LAC : High Frequency Phone Surveys - Results Second Wave

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to preoccupy the population in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), as do the pandemic’s economic ramifications. The willingness and or ability of people to...
Type: Brief Report#: 160117 Date: July 1, 2020 Author: Ballon Fernandez,Paola Marcela ; Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ; Olivieri,Sergio Daniel ; Rivadeneira Alava,Ana Mercedes ; Del Carpio,Ximena Vanessa
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Togo Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Togo and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151196 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Zambia Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Zambia and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151199 Date: July 1, 2020
Nicaragua - Integration of Natural Medicine and Complementary Therapies, Revival of Traditional Ancestral Medicine in Indigenous Peoples and Afro-descendants

Since its inception in 2014, the Institute of Natural Medicine and Complementary Therapies (IMNTC) has set up a strategy for providing, promoting, and developing traditional and natural medicine and complementary...
Type: Brief Report#: 156182 Date: July 1, 2020 Author: Mendoza,Maria Jose ; Aviles,Maritza Ruiz ; Gordillo-Tobar,Amparo Elena ; Colchao,Maria E. ; Herrera Gonzalez,Emilce Del Socorro ; Rodriguez,Evelyn
COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey Brief – Mali

High Frequency Phone Surveys (HFS) reveal that Covid-19 awareness is widespread in Mali. People have stopped working and households have experienced reductions in income and low engagement in education...
Type: Brief Report#: 155054 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Mauritania Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Mauritania and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151141 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Benin Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Benin and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151040 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Central African Republic Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Central African Republic and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151072 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Gambia Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Gambia and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151086 Date: July 1, 2020
COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Lao PDR : Results from the Rapid Monitoring Phone Survey (Round One)

Lao PDR was the last country in Southeast Asia to report its first confirmed case of COVID-19. The first case was confirmed on 24 March 2020. By July 2020, 22 cases had been confirmed. The Government of...
Type: Brief Report#: 159052 Date: July 1, 2020
Impacts of COVID-19 on Food Security in Cox's Bazar : Food Consumption, Coping and Assistance

This brief presents findings on consumption, coping and basic needs from the Cox’s Bazar Panel Baseline Survey (CBPS) conducted between March – August, 2019 in combination with findings from the first...
Type: Brief Report#: 159997 Date: July 1, 2020
Comparing Approaches to Project COVID-19 Effects on Poverty

Different studies use different approaches to forecast how many people will fall into poverty due to the outbreak of Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), with largely different results. Even when using the same...
Type: Brief Report#: 151252 Date: July 1, 2020 Author: Yoshida,Nobuo ; Nguyen,Minh Cong ; Uematsu,Hiroki ; Wu,Haoyu ; Mahler,Daniel Gerszon ; Gupta,Dixita
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity - Kenya Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Kenya and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151131 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Congo, Democratic Republic Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Congo, Democratic Republic and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151077 Date: July 1, 2020
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Cote d'Ivoire Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Cote d'Ivoire and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151080 Date: July 1, 2020
How COVID-19 has Exposed Cyber Risks in the Health Sector : Why a Paradigm Shift is Needed for Building Cybersecurity Resilience

Cyberattacks targeting public health and the health sector have increased significantly since the outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020, resulting in disruption to the operations of domestic...
Type: Brief Report#: 154575 Date: July 1, 2020 Author: Amin, Rami ; Boie,Bertram ; Gelvanovska-Garcia,Natalija ; Sargent,Sandra
Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Households in Malawi (Vol. 1 of 2) : Findings from the First Round of the High-Frequency Phone Survey

In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, has launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on...
Type: Brief Report#: 151858 Date: July 1, 2020 Author: Chikoti,Lizzie ; Vundru,Wilbert Drazi ; Fuje,Habtamu Neda ; Ilukor,John ; Kanyanda,Shelton Sofiel Elisa ; Kanyuka,Mercy ; Kilic,Talip ; Mleme,Tiope ; Moylan,Heather G. ; Mvula,Bright ; Mwale,Isaac ; Mwalwanda,Twika ; Yoshida,Nobuo
Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) Africa 2019 : Strengthening Debt Management Capacity – Mali Quick Facts

This Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) 2019 brief is for Mali and covers the period January to December 2019.
Type: Brief Report#: 151140 Date: July 1, 2020