WASHINGTON, April 3, 2020 — The World Bank today approved a fast-track $100 million financing to help Bangladesh prevent, detect, and respond to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic and strengthen its national systems for public health emergencies.. The COVID-19 Emergency Response and Pandemic Preparedness Project will roll out nation-wide to help upgrade selected health facilities and ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/water/brief/wash-water-sanitation-hygiene-and-covid-19
With support from the World Bank-financed Sustainable Rural and Small Towns Water and Sanitation Project, the Regional Water Supply and Sanitation Office (OREPA) in Haiti launched a large-scale public awareness campaign, which promoted good handwashing behavior, hygiene, physical distancing, and the use of face masks using posters, videos, social media messages, radio announcements, and ...
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2020 — Global remittances are projected to decline sharply by about 20 percent in 2020 due to the economic crisis induced by the COVID-19 pandemic and shutdown.The projected fall, which would be the sharpest decline in recent history, is largely due to a fall in the wages and employment of migrant workers, who tend to be more vulnerable to loss of employment and wages ...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/state-owned-enterprises-and-covid-19-policy-principles
State aid granted to SOEs has taken multiple forms. They include subsidized loans, capital increases, tax and fees deferral, direct grants, State guarantees to loans, deferral in the payment of concession fees (Subsidy and State Aid Tracker ).Covid-19 effects have posed huge stress on many companies’ solvency, and some governments have offered bailouts of their major SOEs.
The Sub-Saharan Africa region could potentially be hard hit by the coronavirus. A large number of people are at higher risk of infection because of medical preconditions: about 26 million live with HIV and 2.5 million fall ill from tuberculosis annually, while South Africa and Namibia report the highest mortality rates from noncommunicable diseases among upper-middle income countries.
Building a stronger Human Capital could accelerate Morocco’s economic growth, job creation trajectory and competitiveness gains. In 2018, Human Capital was estimated to contribute 41 percent to the country’s wealth per capita, a level substantially lower than in countries with a similar level of development.. The updated World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) gives countries an opportunity ...
NEW DELHI, August 19, 2020 – India needs to continue to implement critical reforms in key areas such as health, labor, land, skills and finance to come out stronger from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.These reforms should aim at enhancing productivity of the Indian economy and spur private investments and exports, says a new World Bank report.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/bangladesh/coronavirus
The Bangladesh government responded fast with the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic. To curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, the government declared a 10-day general holiday from March 26, 2020, which was later extended till May 30, and economic activities resumed on a limited scale. In addition ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/myanmar/brief/myanmar-strategic-partnership
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WASHINGTON, June 26, 2020—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $200 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to increase agricultural productivity and diversification and enhance market access for Myanmar farmers, with a strong focus on inclusion for smallholder farmers, women and other vulnerable groups.