The Philippine economy continues to suffer from the impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) crisis. Domestic demand has remained muted, resulting in the continued contraction in manufacturing activities and...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 155933Date: January 19, 2021Author:
Qian, Rong ;
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Santos, Eduard Renzo ;
Song, Jiyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Moller, Lars Christian
Building New Freight Corridors Impacts: (i) The freight corridor will help India reduce its unduly high logistics costs from some 13-15 percent of GDP, helping it move towards the target of 8 percent,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 158889Date: January 1, 2021
The January newsletter highlights research on consumer behavior and utility pricing for electricity and piped water in Vietnam, evidence from a field experiment in Malawi on the use of financial products,...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 156252Date: January 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: employment and income loss; Covid-19 vaccine; perception...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167558Date: January 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
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#: 155439Date: December 31, 2020Author:
Bruhn, Miriam ;
Cull, Bob ;
Xu, Lixin ;
Zia, Bilal Husnain
This Debt Management Facility (DMF) newsletter includes the following headings: international retail debt management symposium; update on the Joint World Bank/IMF multipronged approach to address debt...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 202322Date: December 31, 2020Author:
World Bank
The December newsletter highlights how incentives can shape bank lending -as well as the intended (and unintended) effects of public policies affecting banks -with examples from Mexico and Peru. Other...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 155335Date: December 1, 2020
This Improving Dimensions of Teaching, Education Management, and Learning Environment (ID-TEMAN) newsletter for November and December 2020 includes the following headings: the promise of education in Indonesia...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 155248Date: December 1, 2020
This Philippines monthly economic developments newsletter for the Month of December 2020 includes the following headlines: the unemployment and underemployment rates declined in October; weak domestic...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 155249Date: December 1, 2020Author:
Qian, Rong ;
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Enriquez, Karen Annette Lazaro ;
Santos, Eduard Renzo ;
Song, Jiyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Moller, Lars Christian
Global container shipping carrying capacity remained flat in the most recent data through November 15, continuing the pattern from October and breaking the strong recovery in the spring and summer. In...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154688Date: November 30, 2020Author:
Ferrantino, Michael Joseph ;
Arvis, Jean Francois ;
Brenton, Paul ;
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina ;
Dairabayeva, Karlygash Serikovna ;
Gillson, Ian John Douglas ;
Souza Muramatsu, Karen ;
Ulybina, Daria
Good power transmission networks are of critical importance in India, as the country's energy resources - both renewable and non-renewable - are spread unevenly across its territory. Until thirty years...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 155458Date: November 1, 2020
This Philippines monthly economic developments newsletter for the Month of November 2020 includes the following headlines: (i) the economy continued to contract by 11.5 percent (yoy) in the third quarter...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154467Date: November 1, 2020Author:
Qian, Rong ;
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Enriquez, Karen Annette Lazaro ;
Santos Villagran, Nicolas Eduardo ;
Song, Jiyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Moller, Lars Christian
The November newsletter looks at ways to increase tax revenue equitably while limiting negative impacts on growth using cross country data and with examples from Costa Rica, Georgia, Ghana, Uganda, Sub-Saharan...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154583Date: November 1, 2020
This note uses data from the High Frequency Survey on the COVID-19 Impacts on Households to derive results. It briefly addresses the following: employment and income loss; business sector; and perception...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 167601Date: November 1, 2020Author:
World Bank
This Improving Dimensions of Teaching, Education Management, and Learning Environment (ID-TEMAN) newsletter from January to October 2020 includes the following headings: COVID-19 and learning inequities...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154523Date: October 31, 2020
Global container shipping capacity began to flatten in October, following the strong recovery trends observed in late spring and summer. Globally, trade carrying capacity (4-week average) is 2.1 percent...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154078Date: October 31, 2020Author:
Ferrantino, Michael Joseph ;
Arvis, Jean Francois ;
Brenton, Paul ;
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina ;
Dairabayeva, Karlygash Serikovna ;
Gillson, Ian John Douglas ;
Souza Muramatsu, Karen ;
Ulybina, Daria
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#: 154054Date: October 31, 2020
This Philippines monthly economic developments newsletter for the month of October 2020 includes the following information: (i) The manufacturing sector contributed its weak performance into August due...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 153722Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Qian, Rong ;
Chua, Kevin C. ;
Cruz, Kevin Thomas Garcia ;
Enriquez, Karen Annette Lazaro ;
Song, Jiyoung ;
Endo, Isaku ;
Moller, Lars Christian
The October newsletter on electricity and development highlights recent advances in methodology and data to better calculate just how valuable electricity access is. Recent studies examine the willingness...
Type: NewsletterReport#: 154011Date: October 1, 2020
This newsletter includes the following articles : World Bank Group Support, Ongoing Operations, International Finance Corporation and Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund.
Type: NewsletterReport#: 153437Date: October 1, 2020
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