Peru’s school year runs from mid-March
to mid-December. Everything was ready to start classes on 16
March 2020; instead, the President announced a strict
lockdown. The...
It is critical to ensure that the World
Bank portfolio is well targeted to areas with the greatest
needs and with greatest potential to maximize development
benefits....
Type: BriefReport#: 151397Date: August 3, 2020Author:
Finn,Arden Jeremy ;
Masaki,Takaaki
Boosting shared prosperity also means
including disadvantaged groups in the labor market. While
many factors can hinder labor force participation,
behavioral factors...
Type: BriefReport#: 151395Date: August 3, 2020Author:
Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis ;
Gaddis,Isis ;
Ranzani,Marco ;
Sousa Lourenco,Joana Isabel
While Africa is increasingly connected,
regional e-commerce penetration remains low because of gaps
in connectivity and trust in online payment systems. To
succeed,...
Founded in 1999, Mercado Libre is the
largest online commerce ecosystem in Latin America, serving
as an integrated regional platform and provider of online
and technology...
A subsidiary of Alibaba Group’s Ant
Financial Services, MYbank was established in 2015 with a
focus on serving small, and medium enterprises (SMEs )and
farmers. The...
Social bonds have become an increasingly
popular fixed-income product since the Social Bond
Principles were published in 2017, and their growth and
popularity have accelerated...
Type: BriefReport#: 154545Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Peeters,Johanna Sophie ;
Schmitt,Maud Louise Anne ;
Volk,Ariane Tamara
Green Delta Insurance Company (GDIC), a
private non-life insurer in Bangladesh, was founded as a
public limited company in December 1985. In 2013, GDIC
became the first...
Type: BriefReport#: 157061Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Sherchan,Prapti ;
Ebrahimi,Sarah Anne ;
Diop,Fatim
Females students make up the majority
(68 percent) of university graduates in Tunisia, and both
female and male graduates join the labor market in
comparable numbers....
Textbooks are one of the most important
tools to help students to learn, but Cambodia’s textbook
supply chain has several weak points. New textbooks
typically do not...
The livelihoods of vulnerable rural
households in fragile environments such as Niger and the
wider Sahel have been strongly affected by the unprecedented
circumstances...
Type: BriefReport#: 183704Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Riquet,Corinne ;
Anderson,Jamie Barbara
Pacific Island countries have
substantial natural resources, they are rich in cultural
diversity and are rapidly increasing their trade and digital
links with global...
The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic and
associated containment measures are expected to cause
far-reaching damage to economies around the world. Firms are
suffering from...
Type: BriefReport#: 151982Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean ;
Brockmeyer,Anne ;
McNabb,Kyle ;
Semelet,Camille Marine
Lazada has always been supporting the
female community in Southeast Asia, from providing selling
opportunities on our platform to hiring women riders among
our courier...
This document provides additional
information on the data collected in Armenia between
December 2019 and August 2020. The survey was part of a
joint project of the European...
The private sector of a country is
crucial to its economic growth and prosperity. This is
particularly true of developing countries as the vast
majority of formal and...
Type: BriefReport#: 154784Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Dall'Aglio,Chiara ;
Hayati,Fayavar ;
Lee,David James
The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic and
associated containment measures are expected to cause
far-reaching damage to economies around the world. Firms are
suffering from...
Type: BriefReport#: 151978Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean ;
Brockmeyer,Anne ;
Harris,Tom ;
Semelet,Camille Marine
The COVID19 (coronavirus) pandemic and
associated containment measures are expected to cause
far-reaching damage to economies around the world. Firms are
suffering from...
Type: BriefReport#: 151980Date: August 1, 2020Author:
Bachas,Pierre Jean ;
Brockmeyer,Anne ;
Lakicevic,Milan ;
Schiffbauer,Marc Tobias ;
Semelet,Camille Marine
In India, Google’s Internet saathi
program provides women in rural communities with a two-day
training on digital literacy to become Internet saathis - a
term meaning...
2012 was a big year for Salesforce. The
cloud computing company based in San Francisco announced a
stream of acquisitions amid robust financial results that
included...
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