Advanced institutional buyers in the
“beyond the pill” strategic segment increasingly demand that
firms guarantee outcome rates. Producers of pharmaceutical
products...
As disaster risk intensifies in Central
America due to the impact of weather events and climate
change, Honduras and Nicaragua are taking action to be
better prepared...
The personal urban mobility strategic
segment is concerned with transporting small groups of
people over short distances in urban areas. This segment is
undergoing a...
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) are
committed to their mandate to deliver urgent and innovative
climate-smart investments at scale. Given the
ever-accelerating demands...
The Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF)
Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a program for
developing countries and regions to build adaptation and
resilience...
The Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF)
Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) is a program for
developing countries and regions to build adaptation and
resilience...
Technology innovation is one of the key
drivers of economic and rural development. Despite the
existence of profitable agricultural technologies, such as
improved seeds...
Type: BriefReport#: 192042Date: May 31, 2020Author:
World Bank
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led
schools and universities to rapidly transition to a
distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or
radio. This brief documents...
Type: BriefReport#: 152566Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Piedra,Nicole Paulet ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led
schools and universities to rapidly transition to a
distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or
radio. Alianza Educativa...
Type: BriefReport#: 152574Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Munoz Jaramillo,Pablo Andres ;
Forero,Tatiana ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic
and social effects on households have created an urgent need
for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and
economic...
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led
schools and universities to rapidly transition to a
distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or
radio. This brief documents...
Type: BriefReport#: 152572Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Madero,Cristóbal ;
Reimers,Fernando M. ;
Vargas,Enid
The coronavirus circulated without
detection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
beginning in February 2020. As of March 26, 2020, Iran’s
epidemic was by far...
The Coronavirus (COVID 19) crisis led
schools and universities to rapidly transition to a
distance-learning mode, via the Internet, television or
radio. Launched in...
Type: BriefReport#: 152582Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Barua,Suman ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
The George and Veronica Phalen
Leadership Academies (‘PLA’) is a non-profit organization,
founded in 2013. PLA started as a network of charter schools
but evolved to...
Type: BriefReport#: 152575Date: May 29, 2020Author:
Lamba, Keya ;
Reimers,Fernando M.
This note takes stock of the current
state of higher education systems in the EAP region and
highlights some of the pressing changes, challenges, and
expected consequences...
Since the arrival of COVID-19 and the
subsequent lockdown in many Europe and Central Asia (ECA)
countries, tertiary education institutions have had to move
swiftly toward...
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic
and social effects on households have created an urgent need
for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and
economic...
Type: BriefReport#: 148890Date: May 28, 2020Author:
Ambel,Alemayehu A. ;
Bundervoet,Tom ;
Tsegay,Asmelash Haile ;
Wieser,Christina
The COVID-19 crisis deepened LAC’s
higher education challenges. The region, which has made
progress toward the expansion of higher education, now faces
the dilemma of...
Type: BriefReport#: 153411Date: May 28, 2020Author:
Becerra,Marcelo ;
Alonso,Juan Diego ;
Frias,Micheline
The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic
and social effects on households have created an urgent need
for timely data to help monitor and mitigate the social and
economic...
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