• The Netherlands - Studenten Helpen Scholieren (Students Help Students)
    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: Brief Report#: 152585 Date: May 20, 2020 Author: Vlies, Reyer van der
  • United States - Wide Open School
    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: Brief Report#: 152564 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Vincent-Lancrin, Stephan
  • COCAP Biweekly : Incidents Surrounding COVID-19 : May 1 to 15, 2020
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 161248 Date: May 15, 2020
  • United States - Central Falls Public Schools
    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: Brief Report#: 152568 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Paez Moncaleano, Sergio ; Reimers, Fernando M.
  • COVID-19 Outbreak : Corporate Insolvency - How Can Out-of-Court Workouts Help?
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 157549 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Dancausa, Fernando ; Muro, Sergio Ariel ; Uttamchandani, Mahesh
  • Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia (Vol. 1 of 7) : Results from a High-Frequency Phone Survey of Firms
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148538 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Bundervoet, Tom ; Tefera, Girum Abebe ; Wieser, Christina
  • Costs and Trade-Offs in the Fight Against the COVID-19 Pandemic : A Developing Country Perspective
    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: Brief Report#: 148535 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Loayza, Norman V.
  • Spain - Aprendo en casa (Learn at home)
    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: Brief Report#: 152576 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Encinas-Martin, Marta
  • United States - George and Veronica Phalen Leadership
    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: Brief Report#: 152570 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Phalen, Earl Martin ; Reimers, Fernando M.
  • Finland - Yle Etakoulu (Yle Distance School)
    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: Brief Report#: 152579 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Tuominen, Saku
  • Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia (Vol. 2 of 7) : Sampling Design
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148538 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Abebe, Girum ; Bundervoet, Tom ; Wieser, Christina
  • Brazil - Secretaria Estadual de Educacao de Sao Paulo (Sao Paulo State Department of Education)
    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: Brief Report#: 152569 Date: May 15, 2020 Author: Dellagnelo, Lucia ; Reimers, Fernando M.
  • COVID-19 Impact on Tertiary Education in South Asia
    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: Brief Report#: 153413 Date: May 12, 2020 Author: Tognatta, Namrata Raman
  • Recommendations to Leverage E-Commerce During the COVID-19 Crisis
    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: Brief Report#: 148444 Date: May 12, 2020 Author: Molinuevo, Martin ; Portugal Perez, Luis Alberto ; Rovo, Natasha ; Ungerer, Christoph T F
  • Which Jobs Are Most Vulnerable to COVID-19? What an Analysis of the European Union Reveals
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148384 Date: May 11, 2020
  • Response to COVID-19 : Preparing for School Re-Opening – The Case of South Korea
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148334 Date: May 8, 2020
  • Causes and Impacts of Job Displacements and Public Policy Responses
    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: Brief Report#: 148259 Date: May 7, 2020 Author: Schmillen, Achim Daniel
  • Behavioral Sciences to Protect Human Capital Investments During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
    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...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148260 Date: May 5, 2020
  • Trade and COVID-19 Guidance Note : Facilitating Air Freight - Policies and Actions
    Air connectivity is at the center of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis. Global air cargo capacity has dropped substantially since most commercial passenger flights have been cancelled or grounded worldwide....
    Type: Brief Report#: 148243 Date: May 5, 2020 Author: Rastogi, Cordula ; Saslavsky, Daniel Mario
  • Health Services Trade and the COVID-19 Pandemic
    The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has overwhelmed the capacity of some domestic healthcare systems, highlighting the need to allow scarce healthcare resources to move, including across borders, to where...
    Type: Brief Report#: 148220 Date: May 4, 2020 Author: Gillson, Ian John Douglas ; Souza Muramatsu, Karen
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