This year holds special significance as the midpoint in implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With each step closer to the end of the SDG implementation window, efforts to measure progress and achievement toward these goals will only intensify. While rhetoric often...

The purpose of this study was to see how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis-affected customer purchasing behavior in the Indian garment industry. The nationwide shutdown resulted in a significant shift in consumer buying habits.For fashion apparel brands and businesses to understand...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the centrality of primary care in protecting people’s health and well-being during and beyond crises. It has also provided an opportunity to strengthen and redesign primary care so that it will better serve its purpose. However, to-date there is limited...

We live in a rapidly aging world, in which people who are 60 years and older outnumber children under the age of five. This book reveals large and growing gaps in care for older adults in countries at all income levels and shows how to leverage reforms for improving health outcomes for older...

To aid national and international efforts to support countries in enhancing their pandemic preparedness in the face of COVID-19, this paper draws from the World Bank's Service Delivery Indicator surveys to highlight key aspects of health service preparedness in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania....

Have teachers mastered the subject matter they are teaching? Can doctors accurately diagnose and treat critical health conditions? Are schools and health facilities sufficiently stocked with needed equipment and supplies? Are they sufficiently supported and staffed to optimize learning and...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the centrality of primary care in protecting people's health and well-being during and beyond crises. It has also provided an opportunity to strengthen and redesign primary care so that it will better serve its purpose. However, to-date there is limited...

To aid national and international efforts to support countries in enhancing their pandemic preparedness in the face of COVID-19, this paper draws from the World Bank's Service Delivery Indicator surveys to highlight key aspects of health service preparedness in Kenya, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania....

"The book undertakes rigorous empirical research relating to the notion of competitiveness at the sub-national level in India It introduces the novel methodology of "Shapley Values" that enable us to measure the marginal contribution of a particular indicator we use in our analysis and are...