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. Three indicative types of local government adjustments are discussed and …

The COVID-19 pandemic is posing an existential threat to the air transport sector globally, including in Africa. Due to … short status update on the impact of the pandemic; reviews pre-COVID-19 sector challenges from the supply, demand, and …

other regions in the world to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The region also faces challenges from other emerging … diseases, re-emerging diseases, and climate change. Since 2020, the Central Asian regional economies, as the rest of the world …, have faced two shocks - the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Animal diseases do not respect borders and remain a …

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 … of -10.6 percent in gross domestic product (GDP). The pandemic hit the travel, tourism, and other services sectors first …

among the bottom income deciles who were also disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Meanwhile, adverse climate change …

Since the beginning of the pandemic, efforts have been made to monitor both school closures (and re-opening) and the … Responses to COVID-19, jointly supported by UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank. However, to date, no systematic evidence has been … available on how students' learning is being affected by the disruptions caused by the pandemic or on the impact of education …

The economic shock of the coronavirus outbreak has an unprecedented impact on public finances. Governments are … implementing massive fiscal packages including both budgetary and nonbudgetary measures to fight the pandemic while receipts are … sharply down. Communicating the financial consequences of Coronavirus (COVID-19) to all stakeholders in a timely manner is …

impact of the pandemic to date than had been initially anticipated, including on the measured output of the education sector … following the closure of institutions in March. The special focus topic finds that the pandemic increased poverty by 4 …

In 2020, the World Bank projected that the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic could push more than hundred million people … into extreme poverty. The estimated forty-five million people around the world working in artisanal and small-scale mining … these risks, the World Bank took early action. In May 2020, the extractives global programmatic support (EGPS) trust fund …

The speed, reach, and magnitude of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic sent a shockwave around the globe that tested …