Empowering women and gender-inclusiveness is central to our regional cooperation work in South Asia. The SARRE newsletter issue 17 for the month of March 2022 highlights our South Asia Regional Trade Facilitation...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 175946Date: February 28, 2022Author:
World Bank
The March research newsletter features the topic "Forced Migration: Amnesties, Aid, and Empowerment." This newsletter is led by a feature story excerpt highlighting research on how countries can effectively...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 170302Date: February 28, 2022Author:
World Bank
The economy sustained its growth performance in Q4 2021, ending with a full-year growth of 5.6 percent. This positive news, along with the rapid decline in COVID-19 cases following an Omicron-led surge...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 168855Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Lazaro, Karen ;
Santos, Eduard Renzo ;
Garces, Ludigil Laborte ;
Song, Jiyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Qian, Rong ;
Moller, Lars Christian
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 169034Date: February 1, 2022
The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Merchandise trade strengthened in November 2021 despite persistent value-chain bottlenecks and logistics constraints; (ii) Services trade is finally closing...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 168638Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina ;
Arvis, Jean Francois ;
Dairabayeva, Karlygash Serikovna ;
Dubey, Pratyush ;
Gillson, Ian John Douglas ;
Mulabdic, Alen ;
Souza Muramatsu, Karen ;
Nyawo, Mike ;
Ulybina, Daria ;
Wellisz, Chris L ;
Nucifora, Antonio ;
Haddad, Mona E.
The February research newsletter features the topic "Long-Term Growth: Prospects, Policies, and the Future of Prosperity." The newsletter's featured research highlights the World Bank's Long Term Growth...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 168632Date: February 1, 2022
In the 16th SARRE newsletter for February 2022, we highlight the benefits of regional cooperation in electricity trade, and the #OneSouthAsia Conversation which examined how countries in the BBIN sub-region...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 175945Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Typhoon Odette devastated Central Philippines in late December, resulting in damages in infrastructure and agriculture, and disruption in vaccination efforts. COVID-19 cases have surged again due to the...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167970Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Lazaro, Karen ;
Santos, Eduard Renzo ;
Garces, Ludigil Laborte ;
Song, Jiyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Qian, Rong ;
Moller, Lars Christian
The January research newsletter features the topic "Taxation and Technology: Case Studies in E-Government." This newsletter's featured research utilizes experiments from Tajikistan and Liberia to illustrate...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167961Date: January 1, 2022
Preparing Common Ground The SmartCity.za Bulletins are a series of short newsletters which will both inform and be informed by the DBSA Smart Cities Programme and its community of practitioners. It combines...
This Debt Management Facility (DMF) newsletter includes the following headings: debt transparency in developing economies; debt management performance assessment methodology; piloting the DeMPA 2021 in...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 202324Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
The SEDLAC harmonization project includes a categorical ethnicity variable for each country when it is possible to classify individuals by ethnic groups in the household survey. This harmonized ethnicity...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 166718Date: December 7, 2021Author:
World Bank
In FY2021, the LAC TSD started to include the mitigation measures into the regional microsimulation as one of the natural extensions of the model. A fourth channel of transmission was applied to the regional...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 166720Date: December 7, 2021Author:
World Bank
The MENA Crisis Tracker is a weekly newsletter that provides information on public health indicators, expected economy-wide losses, and social consequences of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in the Middle...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 148629Date: December 6, 2021
Over the past few decades, India’s economic growth has led to the rapid deterioration of air quality. Delhi’s inordinately high pollution levels and consistent ranking among the world’s most polluted capitals...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167971Date: December 1, 2021
The key messages of this newsletter include: (i) Global merchandise trade has stabilized at levels above pre-pandemic but hides divergent trends for quantities (weakening since early 2021) and prices of...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167119Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina ;
Ferrantino, Michael Joseph ;
Arvis, Jean Francois ;
Dairabayeva, Karlygash Serikovna ;
Gillson, Ian John Douglas ;
Souza Muramatsu, Karen ;
Nyawo, Mike ;
Ulybina, Daria ;
Dubey, Pratyush
The vaccination rate accelerated in early December following the successful 3-day national vaccination drive. The authorities further loosened mobility restrictions as daily cases continued to decline....
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167034Date: December 1, 2021Author:
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Enriquez, Karen Annette Lazaro ;
Santos, Eduard Renzo ;
Garces, Ludigil Laborte ;
Song, Inyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Qian, Rong ;
Moller, Lars Christian
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167574Date: December 1, 2021
This note uses data from the High Frequency Survey on the COVID-19 Impacts on Households to derive results. It briefly addresses the following: COVID-19 and vaccination update; employment and income loss;...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167605Date: December 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
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