Narrowing the gender gap is critical to
sustainable and inclusive growth. This brief discusses how
moving toward gender equality can improve female labor force
participation,...
Type: BriefReport#: 153893Date: October 27, 2020Author:
Devadas,Sharmila ;
Kim,Young Eun
The social protection and jobs team
organized a virtual training workshop for training
facilitators from the national employment agency (NEA) from
October 26 and 27,...
The GeoLAC repository contains three
maps of the Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region
that aim to inform policy (governments and the World Bank)
around the Coronavirus...
Type: BriefReport#: 153870Date: October 26, 2020Author:
Gunio,Pamela Gaye C. ;
Canavire Bacarreza,Gustavo Javier ;
Romero Haaker,Francisco Javier ;
Sanchez Castro,Diana Marcela ;
Del Carmen Hasbun,Giselle Eugenia ;
Garcia Pena Bersh,Natalia ;
Barreto Herrera,Karen Yiseth ;
Segovia Juarez,Sandra Carolina
There is an urgent need for timely data
to help monitor and mitigate the social and economic impacts
of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and protect the
welfare of...
Type: BriefReport#: 154336Date: October 22, 2020Author:
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Von Der Goltz,Jan ;
Fatima,Freeha ;
Nichanametla Ramasubbaiah,Rakesh Gupta
While Myanmar responded early and
decisively to the COVID-19 pandemic thereby limiting adverse
health impacts, evidence from the Myanmar COVID-19
Monitoring Platform...
The government of Vietnam has long
recognized the importance of disaster risk management as an
essential principle of sustainable socio-economic
development. This brief...
Type: BriefReport#: 178716Date: October 21, 2020Author:
World Bank
Digital skills are becoming increasingly
important due to availability of cheaper internet access,
better connectivity, and increasing automation at workplace
across...
For the current study, six rounds of the
HFPS-F survey are used, mainly focusing on the business
closure module from round six. The six rounds are roughly
three weeks...
This brief was produced under the World
Bank’s Indonesia Covid-19 Observatory, a partnership among
multiple Global Practices at the Bank that aims to generate
near-real-time...
The analysis is based on a sample of
3,058 households in both urban and rural areas in all
regions of Ethiopia. The 15-minute interview covers a
diverse set of topics...
Human capital is central to the World
Bank Group's efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030 and
raise the incomes of the bottom forty percent of people in
each country....
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led
schools and universities to rapidly transition to a
distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or
radio. In the outset...
Type: BriefReport#: 154185Date: October 8, 2020Author:
Vidal,Quentin
The Platform Initiative for Western
Balkans and Ukraine is a joint effort of the Principals, who
are working together on cooperation with partners in the
Western Balkans...
The World Bank commissioned a firm-level
survey to provide quantitative evidence of the impact of the
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Three rounds of data
have...
Monitoring progress towards the World
Bank Group's (WBG) goals, eradicating poverty and
boosting shared prosperity, is essential to adjust the
Bank's portfolio investment...
Type: BriefReport#: 153750Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Yoshida,Nobuo ;
Malgioglio,Silvia
Across the globe, women often face lower
income opportunities relative to men. Many of the dierences
in economic outcomes can be explained by the sectors in
which women...
The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic and
resulting containment measures are likely to cause an
economic contraction of about 2.8 percent in Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) in...
Type: BriefReport#: 153673Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Machasio,Immaculate Nafula
The growth of Pakistan’s start-up
ecosystem has resulted in a substantial increase in access
to finance through venture capitalists (22 percent of
investments) and angel...
Type: BriefReport#: 156746Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Joshi,Shalaka Rameshchandra ;
Pandey,Disha
Digital banks have been on the rise as
digital technologies transform financial services around the
world. Under the Korean government’s new policy framework
for digital...
Type: BriefReport#: 153910Date: October 1, 2020Author:
Choi,Youjin
In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), more than
80 percent of workers find their livelihoods in the informal
sector. They are artisans and shop owners, fishers and
divers, tailors...
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