The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and its effects on households create an urgent need for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts of the crisis...
Type: BriefReport#: 160992Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Karamba, R. Wendy ;
Shrestha, Maheshwor ;
Tong, Kimsun
The restrictions on mobility and economic activity that were put in place to mitigate the health impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic have had an unequal impact both across and within countries,...
Type: BriefReport#: 160978Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Agrawal, Sarthak ;
Bundervoet, Tom ;
Cojocaru, Alexandru ;
Montalva Talledo, Veronica Sonia ;
Narayan, Ambar ;
Ten, Andrey
Faced with an unprecedented global health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19, Chadian authorities, with the support of development and humanitarian partners, have not remained indifferent. They have...
The World Bank is providing technical and financial support to countries to help mitigate the spread and impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One area of support is for data collection to inform...
Type: BriefReport#: 179598Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Costantini, Marco ;
Koncobo, Zakaria ;
Mugera, Harriet Kasidi ;
Tanner, Jeffery ;
Tiberti, Marco ;
Tsimpo Nkengne, Clarence
Integrating a financial inclusion module into a multitopic household survey like the Ethiopia Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) makes it possible to explore how different community spatial, demographic, and socioeconomic...
Type: BriefReport#: 162032Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Achew, Mengistu Bessir ;
Ambel, Alemayehu A. ;
Gradstein, Helen Luskin ;
Tsegay, Asmelash Haile ;
Ul Haq, Imtiaz ;
Varghese, Minita Mary ;
Yonis, Manex Bule
Prioritized CSA investments include; two national activities designed to provide information, capacity building, and key infrastructure and seven regional investments in specific crops and animals. Investments...
Well-documented challenges face women entrepreneurs leading to smaller, less profitable, and slower growing firms than male-led firms (Bardasi, Sabarwal, and Terrel 2011; Bruhn 2009; Carranza, Dhakal,...
Bhutan is highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including flooding, landslides, and earthquakes, and public health emergencies linked to epidemic and disease outbreaks with pandemic potential. The World...
Type: BriefReport#: 161538Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Guzman Escobar, Armando Eduardo ;
Mohammed-Roberts, Rianna L. ;
Shibuya, Naho
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a strong impact on the livelihoods of Kenyan households, even though employment and income levels are recovering. The second lockdown resulted in...
Type: BriefReport#: 161513Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Delius, Antonia Johanna Sophie ;
Gupta, Rhea ;
Khandelwal, Ritika ;
Pape, Utz Johann
Prioritized CSA investments include five national activities and four regionally distributed activities focused on specific commodity value chains. Investments total of US472.5 million dollars and could...
This discussion note summarizes India’s efforts to strengthen the land rights of poor and vulnerable farmers through land leasing reform and provides recommendations to ensure that tenant, women, and Dalit...
In April 2019, the Republic of Korea launched the world’s first smart phone based, business-to-consumer (B2C) 5G commercial services. In two years, the country’s 5G subscribers surpassed 13 million, accounting...
Type: BriefReport#: 160616Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Hong, Een Kee ;
Lee, Elyse Jee Hyun ;
Ryu, Je Myung
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...
The global maritime industry is recovering from a lengthy period of stagnation, but overcapacity will persist. The industry generated global revenues of EUR 228 billion in 2014, a cumulative growth of...
This brief summarizes findings from rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. Two rounds of tracking surveys were implemented via phone interviews in 2020 to monitor the impacts of the Coronavirus...
In May 2020, the National Statistical Office (NSO), with support from the World Bank, launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19, which tracks the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic on a...
Type: BriefReport#: 160052Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Cardona Sosa, Lina Marcela ;
Caruso, German Daniel ;
Chikoti, Lizzie ;
Ilukor, John ;
Kanyanda, Shelton Sofiel Elisa ;
Kanyuka, Mercy ;
Kilic, Talip ;
Mleme, Tiope ;
Moylan, Heather G. ;
Mwale, Isaac ;
Mwalwanda, Twika ;
Myula, Bright ;
Vundru, Wilbert Drazi ;
Yoshida, Nobuo
Financial inclusion occurs when adults have access to appropriate, affordable, and well-regulated financial services to meet their needs effectively and improve their lives. Financial inclusion is a growing...
Type: BriefReport#: 161098Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Beegle, Kathleen G. ;
Hess, Jake Richard ;
Klapper, Leora
Value Chain Development (VCD) approaches, and building country capacity to adopt them, represent important operational tools to help World Bank client countries harness private sector potential and remove...
Type: BriefReport#: 161241Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Salhab, Jade ;
Weber, Michael
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