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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
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Somalia Economic Update, June 2020 : Impact of COVID-19 - Policies to Manage the Crisis and Strengthen Economic Recovery
World Bank Group - 2020
Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Somalia's economy was on an upward trajectory, recovering from the 2016/17 drought. The economy grew at an estimated rate of 2.9 percent in 2019, on par with population growth, and was projected to grow at 3.2 percent in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has...
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The World Bank's Early Support to Addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health and Social Response : An Early-Stage Evaluation
World Bank Group - 2022
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 … the quality of the response, the evaluation is guided by a theory of action that synthesizes evidence in three dimensions …
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Impacts of Covid-19 on the World Bank's Forest Investment Program Portfolio
World Bank Group - 2023
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The …
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Making Teacher Policy Work
World Bank Group - 2023
This report zooms into what lies behind the success or failure of teacher policies: how teachers experience these policies, and how systems scale and sustain these policies. The report argues that for policies to be successful, they need to be designed and implemented with careful consideration...
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Rwanda Economic Update, January 2022, Edition No. 18 : Boosting Regional Integration in the Post-COVID Era
World Bank Group - 2022
services. The white paper on logistics and distribution services strategy for Rwanda, prepared with the support of the World …
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The Impact of the War in Ukraine on Global Trade and Investment
World Bank Group - 2022
report focuses on the direct impact of the war on world trade and investment. It identifies five trade and investment …. The report finds that world trade will drop by 1 percent, lowering global GDP by 0.7 percent and GDP of low …
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Iran Economic Monitor, Fall 2021 : Adapting to the New Normal - A Protracted Pandemic and Ongoing Sanctions
World Bank Group - 2021
to ongoing US sanctions, have led to exchange rate volatility and a surge in inflation. The economic rebound has also …
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Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators : Methodology, Insights, and Applications
World Bank Group - 2021
What is the appropriate level of employment in the public sector as a whole and for essential workers like public administrators, teachers, and doctors? Is the public sector wage bill affordable? Does the public sector pay competitive wages compared to the private sector to attract talent while...
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Green Incentives for Climate Competitive Industries : A Practitioner's Handbook
World Bank Group - 2016
-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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