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The COVID-19 crisis brought home the high costs of pandemics, triggering a historic setback in the fight against poverty. It also reinforced the interconnections between people, planet and economy, calling attention to the zoonotic nature of pathogens spilling over from animals to people. To...
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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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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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The COVID-19 pandemic is posing an existential threat to the air transport sector globally, including in Africa. Due to sustained and significant loss of revenue coupled with the presence of several fixed and quasi-fixed inputs in this sector, the survival of carriers is questionable in the...
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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 … security and achieving gains in development. The World Bank has been actively engaged in Central Asia for over two decades and …
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With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …
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This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps … Evaluation Group evaluation looks at the World Bank Group support to address the economic implications of the pandemic. To assess … recommendations for ensuring stronger future preparedness: (i) Use the World Bank's crisis recovery efforts to strengthen the …
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This note provides an update on the WBG's COVID-19 Crisis Response, outlined in June 2020 to help developing countries address the impacts of the pandemic while maintaining a line of sight to long-term development goals. It comprises five short sections: (I) the impacts of COVID-19 and...
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