The quality of school management can
have a large impact on student learning. Evidence from a
wide range of countries demonstrates that improving the
management practices...
Firms in the East Asia and Pacific (EAP)
region have been hit hard by the COVID-19 (coronavirus)
pandemic, with dramatic and widespread falls in sales and
employment....
Type: BriefReport#: 158503Date: April 26, 2021Author:
De Nicola,Francesca ;
Mattoo,Aaditya ;
Timmis,Jonathan David ;
Tran,Trang Thu
To support Mozambique’s blue economy and
promote sustainable rural development, the World Bank is
working to make the fishing sector more sustainable and
profitable...
Complexities surround the relationships
between the public and private sectors that fundamentally
influence the provision of hydromet informationand services.
This technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 158504Date: April 22, 2021Author:
Rogers, David P. ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Suwa,Makoto
Energy efficiency is seen more often as
a means of reducing energy consumption and costs than as a
way to expand the production of goods and services. But it
can help...
Type: BriefReport#: 158239Date: April 16, 2021Author:
Campagne,Benoit Philippe Marcel ;
Zinetti,Silvia ;
De Wit,Joerie Frederik ;
Lukas,Aditya Alexander
Access to electricity is widely
considered a major determinant of socioeconomic development.
But despite long-standing efforts to expand access, 789
million people remained...
Type: BriefReport#: 158169Date: April 15, 2021Author:
Dhorne,Milien Louis Jean Paul ;
Nicolas,Claire Marion ;
Arderne,Christopher James ;
Besnard,Juliette Suzanne Georgette
The April 2021 Vietnam Macro Monitoring
discusses some of the following topics : The authorities
acted swiftly to control a new COVID-19 (coronavirus)
outbreak, which...
The brief outlines the finding from the
second round of a high frequency social monitoring survey
that aimed to assess the impact of COVID 19 (coronavirus)
pandemic...
Type: BriefReport#: 163264Date: April 14, 2021Author:
Fallesen,Ditte Marie Gammelgaard ;
Adolfo,Paul Tudtud ;
Piza,Sharon Faye Alariao ;
Padua,Maria Loreto ;
Wilson,Juliette E. ;
Canlas,Corinne A.
The brief outlines the finding from the
second round of a high frequency social monitoring survey
that aimed to assess the impact of COVID 19 (coronavirus)
pandemic...
Type: BriefReport#: 163264Date: April 14, 2021Author:
Fallesen,Ditte Marie Gammelgaard ;
Adolfo,Paul Tudtud ;
Piza,Sharon Faye Alariao ;
Padua,Maria Loreto ;
Wilson,Juliette E. ;
Canlas,Corinne A.
High-frequency phone surveys conducted
in 13 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC)
show that women were 44 percent more likely than men to lose
their jobs...
Type: BriefReport#: 156537Date: April 11, 2021Author:
Cucagna,Maria Emilia ;
Romero Haaker,Francisco Javier
Fraud and corruption may impede economic
growth, exacerbate income inequality, increase the cost of
government services, lower trust in government, and increase
political...
Costa Rica’s national climate change
metrics system (sistema nacional de metrica de cambio
climatico, SINAMECC) is Costa Rica’s official platform to
coordinate climate...
Climate and systems modeling in Costa
Rica has been used to integrate physical variables to
traditional modeling tools. The models have enabled
quantitative analysis...
The partnership for market
readiness-Costa Rica (PMR-CR) supported the Costa Rican
government with technical and conceptual inputs in two
complementary approaches for...
The Costa Rican offsetting mechanism
(mecanismo de compensacion de Costa Rica, MCCR) is a
domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) crediting instrument to
address the structural...
Costa Rica’s national carbon neutrality
program (programa pais de carbono neutralidad, PPCN) is an
official mechanism for participants to join the country’s
long-term...
To collect tax revenue and maximize the
use of scarce enforcement capacity, some tax administrations
focus their enforcement efforts disproportionately on large
firms...
Type: BriefReport#: 157741Date: April 2, 2021Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean
Climate change poses particularly
difficult challenges for public sector institutions. Climate
change impacts all sectors of the economy and society.
Action to address...
Despite significant recent advances in
research on people with disabilities in many developed
countries, little is known about their counterparts living
in the developing...
Type: BriefReport#: 158835Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Montes,Jose ;
Swindle,Rachel Elizabeth
Latin American and the Caribbean is one
of the regions in the world most affected by the COVID-19
pandemic, and the welfare impacts for households have been
severe....
Type: BriefReport#: 160101Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Mejía-Mantilla, Carolina ;
Olivieri,Sergio Daniel ;
Rivadeneira Alava,Ana Mercedes ;
Lara Ibarra,Gabriel ;
Romero Haaker,Francisco Javier
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