This note proposes a high-level framework to assess challenges and policy options to enabling private sector-led investment in 5G connectivity in emerging markets. 5G is the latest mobile network technology...
Type: BriefReport#: 159249Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Houngbonon, Georges Vivien ;
Rossotto, Carlo Maria ;
Strusani, Davide
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
To strengthen resilience at the local level three case studies were compiled in the capital cities of: Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Managua, Nicaragua; and Panama City, Panama, where more than the half of the...
Type: BriefReport#: 204557Date: April 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
The national poverty rate in Russia has been slowly declining in recent years: from 12.9 percent in 2017, 12.6 percent in 2018 to 12.3 percent in 2019. In May 2018 decree, Russia’s president set up a target...
More people around the world are dying from noncommunicable diseases than ever before. These diseases, which include cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes, and heart disease, prematurely kill...
Residential buildings make up a significant proportion of total buildings in Jordan and is the fastest growing subset. The sector dominates electricity use, accounting for 46 percent of total electricity...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting businesses on a national and global scale. As governments introduced measures to contain the domestic spread of the virus, restrictions on...
Type: BriefReport#: 174861Date: March 31, 2021Author:
Buri, Sinja ;
Ferber, Tim
Tes Cepat is an adaptive student learning assessment instrument, which can be administered by parents and community members to provide a low-stakes and frequent means to benchmark student aptitude. Individual...
This note discusses the impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) and related school closures on primary students’ access to learning in Nepal. The primary source of data is a phone-survey with households that...
Economists disagree on many things, but there is an universal consensus in the field that education is key for long-term growth and development. Evidence strongly suggests that what really matters for...
The World Bank Group’s Women Business and the Law (WBL) project, Global Disability Advisor, and Social Sustainability and Inclusion (SSI) Global Practice are carrying out a joint project focused on better...
Type: BriefReport#: 192600Date: March 26, 2021Author:
World Bank
The High-Frequency Phone Survey for refugees in Uganda (URHFPS) tracks the socioeconomic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on refugees. The World Bank (WB) in collaboration with the Uganda Bureau of Statistics...
Type: BriefReport#: 157786Date: March 26, 2021Author:
Alemi, Charles ;
Atamanov, Aziz ;
Beltramo, Theresa Parrish ;
Hamud Said, Ally ;
Ilukor, John ;
Rios Rivera, Laura Abril ;
Sarr, Ibrahima ;
Waita, Peter ;
Yoshida, Nobuo ;
Yoshimura, Kazusa
The South Asia energy unit of the World Bank is working with researchers from the Harvard Business School (HBS) on a series of South Asia gender and energy case studies. The case studies will look to employ...
Type: BriefReport#: 157718Date: March 25, 2021Author:
Vaidya, Pranav ;
Xia, Fan
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic and social effects on Mozambican households have created an urgent need for timely data on which to base well informed interventions and policy responses. In order...
Type: BriefReport#: 157732Date: March 25, 2021Author:
Da Maia, Carlos Chadreque Penicela ;
Myers, Cara Ann ;
Negre Rossignoli, Mario ;
Tiroso Nacivila, Circe Da Gabriela Bernardo
This Jobs Watch brief provides an analysis of labor market and social protection responses to the COVID-19 crisis, with a focus on policies targeted to workers and firms. It includes a comprehensive set...
Type: BriefReport#: 157683Date: March 23, 2021Author:
De la Flor Giuffra, Luciana ;
Fontenez, Maria Belen ;
Mujica Canas, Ingrid Veronica ;
Newhouse, David Locke ;
Rodriguez Alas, Claudia P ;
Sabharwal, Gayatri ;
Weber, Michael
The importance of strengthening the resilience of cities is more critical than ever, as unprecedented urbanization is transforming the planet. The global facility for disaster reduction and recovery (GFDRR)...
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