The Bolsa Família program relies on the Cadastro Único database (Cadúnico), with Caixa providing enrollment support to update the database. The database includes 73,4 million registered people with their...
Type: BriefReport#: 201920Date: May 31, 2020Author:
World Bank
Technology innovation is one of the key drivers of economic and rural development. Despite the existence of profitable agricultural technologies, such as improved seeds and fertilizers, adoption has remained...
Type: BriefReport#: 192042Date: May 31, 2020Author:
World Bank
The Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a program for developing countries and regions to build adaptation and resilience to the impacts of climate change. The...
Pakistan's main cash transfer program is administered by the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) - an autonomous organization, established through an Act of the Parliament. It is placed under the administrative...
Type: BriefReport#: 201945Date: May 31, 2020Author:
World Bank
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. This brief documents Brazil's initiatives that ensured...
Type: BriefReport#: 152566Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Piedra,Nicole Paulet ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. Alianza Educativa (AE) is a non-profit organisation...
Type: BriefReport#: 152574Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Munoz Jaramillo,Pablo Andres ;
Forero,Tatiana ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. This brief documents Chile's initiatives that ensured...
Type: BriefReport#: 152572Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Madero,Cristóbal ;
Reimers,Fernando M. ;
Vargas,Enid
The 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 and protect...
The coronavirus circulated without detection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) beginning in February 2020. As of March 26, 2020, Iran’s epidemic was by far the largest in MENA, with 137,724 cases,...
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. Launched in 2009, Reality Gives is a community-based...
Type: BriefReport#: 152582Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Barua,Suman ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The George and Veronica Phalen Leadership Academies (‘PLA’) is a non-profit organization, founded in 2013. PLA started as a network of charter schools but evolved to include public schools in a turnaround...
Type: BriefReport#: 152575Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Lamba, Keya ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
This note takes stock of the current state of higher education systems in the EAP region and highlights some of the pressing changes, challenges, and expected consequences of the responses to the COVID-19...
Since the arrival of COVID-19 and the subsequent lockdown in many Europe and Central Asia (ECA) countries, tertiary education institutions have had to move swiftly toward online provision to ensure continuity...
The 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 and protect...
Type: BriefReport#: 148890Date: May 28, 2020Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Bundervoet,Tom ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser,Christina
The COVID-19 crisis deepened LAC’s higher education challenges. The region, which has made progress toward the expansion of higher education, now faces the dilemma of needing to rapidly and creatively...
Type: BriefReport#: 153411Date: May 28, 2020Author:
Becerra,Marcelo ;
Alonso,Juan Diego ;
Frias,Micheline
The 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 and protect...
The note describes the key challenges facing the health, livelihoods, and mobility of internal and international migrants and their families due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The note presents...
Type: BriefReport#: 147784Date: May 26, 2020Author:
Moroz,Harry Edmund ;
Shrestha,Maheshwor ;
Testaverde,Mauro
The Human Capital project is predicated on the importance of investing in all people. This brief outlines the barriers faced by persons with disabilities at different points in the lifecycle as they strive...
Type: BriefReport#: 148962Date: May 26, 2020Author:
Ng,Annabelle Ka Yee ;
Elder,Leslie K. ;
Hasan,Amer
The urgency of effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the reliance of many low-income countries on imports of medical products, requires new approaches to regulation of these products. The challenge...
Type: BriefReport#: 148792Date: May 21, 2020Author:
Jensen,Michael Friis ;
Sela,Shane Robert ;
Brenton,Paul ;
Keyser,John C.
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