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While Barbados has been making good progress in implementing its Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) plan to … economy contracting by 18 percent. While Barbados was successful in containing the outbreak during 2020, renewed COVID-19 … waves weighed on the economic recovery in 2021. In addition, Barbados was hit by the twin natural disaster shocks of …
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This book describes the reforms needed to move small middle-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa to advanced-economy status. The result of intense discussions with public officials in the countries covered, the book blends rigorous theory, econometrics, and practitioners' insights to come up...
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Following a deep recession in 2020 and further contraction in 2021Q1, the euro area economy recovered rapidly in the second and third quarters thanks to high vaccination levels, increasing household and business adaptability to the virus, and continued forceful policy support. Looking ahead,...
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After contracting more than 5 percent in 2020, Kosovo's economy is projected to have recovered by 7.5 percent in 2021, thanks to mobility normalization, extraordinary diaspora inflows, and strengthened confidence. Improved vaccination rates supported these trends and mitigation and recovery...
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This Selected Issues paper on Nepal measures the extent to which Nepal's households change their expenditure patterns and labor supply in response to remittances, using the Nepal Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey-2016 and employing a propensity score matching method. This study provides...
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