This knowledge brief highlights the
relevance and challenges of business incubation services for
youth in rural areas. It is based on discussions during an
operations...
Type: BriefReport#: 180862Date: February 1, 2022Author:
Singh,Sunamika ;
Datta,Namita
Guyana is highly vulnerable to sea level
rise and increased flooding due to climate change and a lack
of development and maintenance across its drainage system.
For...
Type: BriefReport#: 170179Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Cambodia’s schools have long struggled
to get enough of the right textbooks to students for each
new school year. Some issues trace back to the book supply
chain, which...
Type: BriefReport#: 170291Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
To monitor the social and economic
effects on households during the COVID-19 pandemic, the
World Bank is conducting High-Frequency Phone Surveys of
Households in Vietnam....
Type: BriefReport#: 170508Date: January 31, 2022Author:
World Bank
Agriculture plays a vital role in the
economy of Georgia despite the relatively small size of the
sector. Agriculture is the country’s largest
employer and makes...
Type: BriefReport#: 168241Date: January 28, 2022Author:
World Bank
Omicron cases surged as Thailand neared
its end-2021 mass vaccination target of seventy percent. The
government tightened international travel restrictions but
refrained...
Type: BriefReport#: 168040Date: January 20, 2022Author:
Puthong,Warunthorn
With the recent surge in infection and
fatality rates, the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic continues to pose serious risks to the health and
economic wellbeing...
Type: BriefReport#: 168175Date: January 18, 2022Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Cardona Sosa,Lina Marcela ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser,Christina
Results from the Myanmar firm survey
round 9 indicate that the business environment remained
vulnerable. In October 2021, firms re-ported that profit
declined by an...
Type: BriefReport#: 168089Date: January 16, 2022Author:
World Bank
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic is affecting businesses on a national and global
scale. International and local restrictions to limit the
spread of...
Type: BriefReport#: 174879Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Murken,Niklas Alexej ;
Buri,Sinja ;
Te Vogt,Sten
This note explores findings on the
changing household dynamics in response to the mandated
Coronavirus (COVID-19) school closures in Punjab, Pakistan.
The SMS girl impact...
Sustainability-linked finance is
designed to incentivize the borrower’s achievement of
environmental, social, or governance targets through pricing
incentives. Launched...
Type: BriefReport#: 168045Date: January 1, 2022Author:
De La Orden Lopez,Raquel ;
De Calonje,Ignacio
Despite near-universal access to
financial services in advanced economies, financial
exclusion is stubbornly persistent in many emerging markets,
leaving huge swaths...
Type: BriefReport#: 168046Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Rose Innes,Cleo Elize ;
Andrieu,Jacqueline
This knowledge brief focuses on
platforms that have leveraged novel digital technologies to
deliver location agnostic mentoring solutions to youth. The
authors explore...
Type: BriefReport#: 180863Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Singh,Sunamika ;
Datta,Namita
Ethiopia, the second-most populous
nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, is one of the fastest-growing
economies in the region and aims to achieve lower
middle-income status...
Type: BriefReport#: 184079Date: January 1, 2022Author:
World Bank
Greater data flows facilitated by the
proliferation of broadband connectivity can serve as a
driver for economic recovery and long-term growth of the
private sector,...
Type: BriefReport#: 168130Date: January 1, 2022Author:
Srinivasan,Sharada
This brief summarizes findings on labor
market impacts of COVID-19 from the third round of the rapid
welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. These
rapid phone...
Type: BriefReport#: 168574Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
This brief summarizes findings on labor
market impacts of COVID-19 from the third round of the rapid
welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. These
rapid phone...
Type: BriefReport#: 168577Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
This brief provides updated findings on
the education status of school-aged children from the third
round of the rapid welfare tracking surveys in
Cox’s Bazar...
Type: BriefReport#: 168576Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
In many cities across Africa, a
continent that is urbanizing faster than any other the
buildup of disaster and climate risks has gone largely
unnoticed, and therefore...
Type: BriefReport#: 171313Date: December 31, 2021Author:
World Bank
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