This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps … recommendations for ensuring stronger future preparedness: (i) Use the World Bank's crisis recovery efforts to strengthen the … resilience of essential health and education. (ii) Apply a gender equality lens to health and social crisis response actions …

This note provides an update on the WBG's COVID-19 Crisis Response, outlined in June 2020 to help developing countries … crisis response and priorities moving forward, (III) the critical role of international coordination, (IV) WBG financing …

The COVID-19 crisis brought home the high costs of pandemics, triggering a historic setback in the fight against …

they spread widely. The final set focuses on advanced case management and surge response during an epidemic or pandemic …

the breakdown of these services are illustrated by the current global epidemic of avian flu, emanating from poor poultry …-keeping practices in a few Chinese villages. For various reasons, mostly of political economy, public funds for health services in India … in India and indicates new policy thrusts that can help overcome these obstacles. "--World Bank web site …

competitive air transport sector in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis in Africa. It focuses on four broad areas: it provides a … regulatory sides; tracks and analyzes government financial support and bailouts to airlines in the aftermath of the crisis … globally; and identifies and recommends operational and policy responses to mitigate the impact of the crisis and put the …

The global economic crisis seriously threatens the economic growth and poverty reduction that Armenia achieved in … the full impact of the crisis is expected to unfold. These developments are a setback for Armenia after a decade of nearly … double-digit growth and substantial poverty reduction. Depending on the depth of the crisis in Armenia, in its main trading …

selectively, concentrated in large energy projects in a few countries: Brazil, India, and Turkey. The Russian Federation, by … contrast, saw a sharp decline in investment as a result of the global financial crisis and the end of the RAO UES privatization … remained slower than before the full onset of the financial crisis. The number of projects reaching closure was 27 percent …