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. Climate change further exacerbates this challenge. In combination with COVID-19, the climate crisis presents a clear and … to tackle both the pandemic and the climate crisis. This report provides a framework that builds on the World Bank …
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To continue monitoring how the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has affected the welfare of households in the region, the World Bank and UNDP have joined forces in the implementation of a second phase of High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) in Latin America and the Caribbean. The survey, collected...
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crisis would have on girls and women and their human capital. Two years into the crisis, this brief summarizes the evidence … to date on how the prediction of a shadow crisis has played out in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).The brief is intended as a … responses. Evidence to date confirms that the COVID-19 crisis has had profound negative impacts on the education, health …
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the COVID-19 crisis for the public sector and provides guidance on how governments and SOEs can use this crisis to build … or strengthen their crisis response systems. Suggested measures involve calibrating risks and introducing proper risk … public enterprises to bounce back in the post-crisis environment. This note draws on existing World Bank analysis of emerging …
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All countries across South Asia, faced with the rising risks of COVID-19 infection rates, implemented severe economic lockdowns in early 2020 with varying frequencies and time periods. While the exact nature and duration of these lockdowns varied across countries in the South Asia Region (SAR),...
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Over the period 2019-21, Albania had to confront dual shocks: the 2019 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both had sizable impacts on the country's economy. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on an economy already affected by the earthquake in 2019. Key sectors were put in lockdown in...
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City local governments have been facing multiple challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic to secure adequate financial resources for response and recovery. This report assesses the impact of the pandemic on local governments' financial situations through cross-country analysis and comparison....
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This report presents the findings of the second of five planned rounds of mobilephone surveys, as well as the results of a companion survey funded by UNICEF. Thefirst World Bank High Frequency Phone Survey (HFPS) in Solomon Islands on thesocioeconomic implications of the coronavirus pandemic...
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In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, with the support from the World Bank, has launched the high-frequency phone survey on Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to track the impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of 12 months. The survey aimed to recontact the entire...
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The COVID-19 pandemic affected people's livelihoods in many ways, particularly in developing countries. This paper examines the degree to which recovering mobility levels impacted labor market outcomes in Kenya over the course of the pandemic, starting from May 2020 until June 2021. It uses an...
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