The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the
important role digital financial services (DFS) can play in
reducing disruptions to supply chains, maintaining economic
activity,...
This discussion note highlights
cross-state experiences with subsidizing land purchases by
poor women and facilitating women’s group land
leasing to increase...
Type: BriefReport#: 167078Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Stickler,Meredith Mercedes
This discussion note profiles approaches
for supporting farmers to obtain legal recognition of their
informal land rights through government land allocation
programs...
Type: BriefReport#: 167079Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Youssefi-Vash,Farbod
Faced with an unprecedented global
health and economic crisis caused by COVID-19, Chadian
authorities, with the support of development and
humanitarian partners, have...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic and its effects on households create an urgent need
for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate
the social...
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic and its effects on households create an urgent need
for timely data and evidence to help monitor and mitigate
the social...
The World Bank’s South Asia
Region Gender Innovation Lab is conducting a systematic
review and meta-analysis of interventions with direct or
indirect effects...
Type: BriefReport#: 161293Date: June 1, 2021Author:
World Bank
The restrictions on mobility and
economic activity that were put in place to mitigate the
health impacts of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic have
had an unequal impact...
The World Bank is providing technical
and financial support to countries to help mitigate the
spread and impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). One
area of support...
Integrating a financial inclusion module
into a multitopic household survey like the Ethiopia
Socioeconomic Survey (ESS) makes it possible to explore how
different community...
Type: BriefReport#: 162032Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Achew,Mengistu Bessir ;
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Gradstein,Helen Luskin ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Ul Haq,Imtiaz ;
Varghese,Minita Mary ;
Yonis,Manex Bule
Well-documented challenges face women
entrepreneurs leading to smaller, less profitable, and
slower growing firms than male-led firms (Bardasi, Sabarwal,
and Terrel...
Bhutan is highly vulnerable to natural
hazards, including flooding, landslides, and earthquakes,
and public health emergencies linked to epidemic and disease
outbreaks...
Type: BriefReport#: 161538Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Guzman Escobar,Armando Eduardo ;
Shibuya,Naho ;
Mohammed-Roberts,Rianna L.
Prioritized CSA investments include; two
national activities designed to provide information,
capacity building, and key infrastructure and seven regional
investments...
Prioritized CSA investments include five
national activities and four regionally distributed
activities focused on specific commodity value chains.
Investments total...
The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic has had a strong impact on the livelihoods of
Kenyan households, even though employment and income levels
are recovering....
Type: BriefReport#: 161513Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Delius,Antonia Johanna Sophie ;
Khandelwal,Ritika ;
Gupta,Rhea
In April 2019, the Republic of Korea
launched the world’s first smart phone based,
business-to-consumer (B2C) 5G commercial services. In two
years, the country’s 5G...
This brief summarizes findings from
rapid welfare tracking surveys in Cox’s Bazar. Two rounds of
tracking surveys were implemented via phone interviews in
2020 to monitor...
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the
important role digital financial services (DFS) can play in
reducing disruptions to supply chains, maintaining economic
activity,...
Type: BriefReport#: 172373Date: June 1, 2021Author:
Engin,Ebru ;
Sossouvi,Kokoevi Ablavi
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