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.
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. The French Ministry of Education mobilised its network...
Type: BriefReport#: 152581Date: May 20, 2020Author:
Vincent-Lancrin,Stephan
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led schools and universities to rapidly transition to a distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or radio. Studenten helpen scholieren (SHS) is a digital platform...
Type: BriefReport#: 152585Date: May 20, 2020Author:
Vlies,Reyer van der
Wide Open School is a web platform coordinated by a not-for-profit private organization, Common Sense Media, which curates and makes available online educational resources provided by a partnership of...
Type: BriefReport#: 152564Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Vincent-Lancrin, Stephan
Collective Campaign for Peace's (COCAP’s) COVID-19 biweekly covers the incidents from May 1 to 15, 2020 related to gender based violence (GBV) and incidents related Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Nepal. This...
Central Falls is a small urban school district located 10 minutes from Providence, Rhode Island, in the United States. Historically an immigrant community, the Central Falls Public Schools serve about...
Type: BriefReport#: 152568Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Paez Moncaleano,Sergio ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its negative economic effects create an urgent need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
The COVID-19 crisis has affected firms’ liquidity and balance sheet. Many firms are expected to become insolvent. The surge in the number of bankruptcy cases is likely to result in higher costs, longer...
The world is experiencing the worst pandemic crisis in one hundred years. By mid-April 2020, more than 80 percent of countries around the world had imposed strict containment and mitigation measures to...
Type: BriefReport#: 148535Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Loayza,Norman V.
Aprendo en casa (Learn at home) is an initiative launched by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MEFP – Ministerio de Educacion y Formacion Profesional) as a result of the temporary...
Type: BriefReport#: 152576Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Encinas-Martin, Marta
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#: 152570Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Phalen, Earl Martin ;
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. With the rise of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis,...
Type: BriefReport#: 152579Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Tuominen,Saku
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and its negative economic effects create an urgent need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis and protect...
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 Sao Paulol's initiatives that...
Type: BriefReport#: 152569Date: May 15, 2020Author:
Dellagnelo,Lucia ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The higher education (HE) system in South Asia (SAR) is vast. Compared to other regions, it is the second largest in terms of enrollment and accounts for 18 percent of all tertiary education students globally....
Type: BriefReport#: 153413Date: May 12, 2020Author:
Tognatta,Namrata Raman
In the fight against COVID-19 (coronavirus), economic activities that require close physical contact have been severely restricted. In this context, e-commerce – defined broadly as the sale of goods or...
Type: BriefReport#: 148444Date: May 12, 2020Author:
Ungerer,Christoph T F ;
Portugal Perez,Luis Alberto ;
Molinuevo,Martin ;
Rovo,Natasha
This Research and Policy Brief presents measures of labor market exposure to COVID-19 (coronavirus)in the European Union (EU) by identifying jobs in non-essential industries that cannot be performed from...
In this note the reader will learn : The new school year began with online classes for the first time. How the Ministry Of Education (MOE) and local education offices secured digital devices to lend to...
Across the globe, both cyclical downturns and structural changes episodically eliminate substantial numbers of jobs and in the process create serious dislocations. For instance, the rise in joblessness...
Type: BriefReport#: 148259Date: May 7, 2020Author:
Schmillen,Achim Daniel
The novel coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2, which causes COVID-19) presents multi-dimensional challenges for countries as the effects of the virus, and the response efforts, intersect with other sectors and development...
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