This paper summarizes environmental considerations that the Bank should take into account in preparing its new country strategy with Bolivia (2011-2015). Some of these are already contemplated to a certain extent in the existing strategy. Following this introductory section, which briefly...

This discussion paper starts with a brief summary of several important existing Bank-supported environment-related interventions. It is followed by a review of pending issues associated with some of these initiatives, specifically those associated with possible new Bank-financed infrastructure...

Este informe ofrece una evaluación preliminar del impacto de la crisis de COVID-19 en el comercio electrónico. Se basa en datos e información disponibles en su mayor parte hasta el tercer trimestre de 2020, incluidos aquellos procedentes de las estadísticas oficiales, las encuestas a...

The current coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented public health challenge that has devastating economic impacts for households. Using a sample of 230,540 respondents to online surveys in 17 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, we show that the economic impacts are large and unequal:...