Costa Rica’s national climate change metrics system (sistema nacional de metrica de cambio climatico, SINAMECC) is Costa Rica’s official platform to coordinate climate information in the country. The system...
Climate and systems modeling in Costa Rica has been used to integrate physical variables to traditional modeling tools. The models have enabled quantitative analysis of the impacts of potential measures...
The partnership for market readiness-Costa Rica (PMR-CR) supported the Costa Rican government with technical and conceptual inputs in two complementary approaches for developing an emissions levy. The...
The Costa Rican offsetting mechanism (mecanismo de compensacion de Costa Rica, MCCR) is a domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) crediting instrument to address the structural issues ailing the country’s domestic...
Costa Rica’s national carbon neutrality program (programa pais de carbono neutralidad, PPCN) is an official mechanism for participants to join the country’s long-term decarbonization goal of having net...
To collect tax revenue and maximize the use of scarce enforcement capacity, some tax administrations focus their enforcement efforts disproportionately on large firms instead of enforcing taxes evenly...
Type: BriefReport#: 157741Date: April 2, 2021Author:
Bachas, Pierre Jean
Climate change poses particularly difficult challenges for public sector institutions. Climate change impacts all sectors of the economy and society. Action to address climate change requires coordination...
Despite significant recent advances in research on people with disabilities in many developed countries, little is known about their counterparts living in the developing world. With the goal of helping...
Type: BriefReport#: 158835Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Montes, Jose ;
Swindle, Rachel Elizabeth
Latin American and the Caribbean is one of the regions in the world most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the welfare impacts for households have been severe. At the macroeconomic level, the World...
Type: BriefReport#: 160101Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Lara Ibarra, Gabriel ;
Mejía-Mantilla, Carolina ;
Olivieri, Sergio Daniel ;
Rivadeneira Alava, Ana Mercedes ;
Romero Haaker, Francisco Javier
In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, with the support from the World Bank, has launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 to track the impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for...
Type: BriefReport#: 162071Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Cochinard, Frederic Pierre Francois Hugue ;
Ilukor, John ;
Kilic, Talip ;
Mupere, Andrew ;
Ponzini, Giulia ;
Ssennono, Vincent
The objective of the report is to support the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines’ response to the crisis, the Canada Caribbean Resilience Facility (CRF) has rapidly mobilized technical assistance...
This note presents the results of the eighth round of a nationally representative telephone survey (HFPS). The BFA istered during the 8th visit: access to basic services; early childhood development for...
Type: BriefReport#: 167943Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Backiny-Yetna, Prospere R. ;
Costantini, Marco ;
Koncobo, Zakaria ;
Tiberti, Marco ;
Tiendrebeogo, et Adama ;
Tsimpo Nkengne, Clarence
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#: 158642Date: April 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. ;
Mvula, Bright ;
Mwale, Isaac ;
Mwalwanda, Twika ;
Vundru, Wilbert Drazi ;
Yoshida, Nobuo
Accurately measuring and understanding agency, or one’s ability to make choices and achieve desired outcomes can support the design and targeting of effective development interventions, as well as tracking...
Type: BriefReport#: 158620Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Jarvis, Forest Brach ;
Johnson, Hillary C. ;
Perova, Elizaveta
Textbooks are one of the most important tools to foster learning. There is evidence from a wide range of countries that, in order to raise literacy rates and improve learning outcomes, students must have...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic hit the tourism industry particularly hard, affecting livelihoods and exacerbating some pressures on the natural capital resource base. Supporting the tourism sector...
Type: BriefReport#: 158327Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Rahill, Bilal H. ;
White, Elizabeth M.
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