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Experience from previous global and food crises provides some guidance for appropriate trade responses during the crisis and those that are likely to undermine effective national and global responses. However, the speed, scale and nature of this crisis are unprecedented which requires thinking...
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The COVID-19 (coronavirus) global pandemic will have a large negative impact on the Kenyan economy. Even before being … affected by the novel coronavirus, Kenya's economy had decelerated. The World Bank estimates that GDP growth in 2019 was about … 5.6 percent, down from 6.3 percent in 2018. The COVID-19 (coronavirus) shock is expected to further reduce growth in …
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … primary and secondary education." The COVID-19 pandemic now threatens to make education outcomes even worse. The pandemic has …
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Governments around the world are designing and implementing rapid responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In … Institutional Response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic … addressing and mitigating corruption risks in the COVID-19 (coronavirus) response, both in the initial response and in the medium …
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(Coronavirus) pandemic. The government's policy helped contain the virus and contributed to saving human lives. Today, most social … trajectory during recent years. The pandemic has also left indelible scars, especially on people and businesses that were the … rather should define what will be the new normal as the pandemic has changed in so many ways how people live, work, and …
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; while 2020 and early 2021 coincided with a global Coronavirus pandemic that further dampened prospects at both global and … covering the pre-pandemic (2019) and pandemic (2020 to April 2021) period. The 2019-2020 period marked a very difficult time …
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The sanitary and economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought about the most significant disruption in the … effectively country-wide so as to speed up the recovery process from the dramatic effects of the pandemic. They can leverage many …
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High risk that gender inequalities will widen during and after the pandemic is gains in women's and girls' accumulation … more likely to be exposed to the virus. The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis didn't unravel new discrepancies …
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productivity has been stagnating. The COVID-19 pandemic has served to exacerbate these existing challenges through disruptions …
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