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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which … primary and secondary education." The COVID-19 pandemic now threatens to make education outcomes even worse. The pandemic has …
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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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; 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 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 …
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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 … scenario analysis is used to highlight the risks and uncertainties associated with the pandemic's impact and subsequent …
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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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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 … government manages the exit of the COVID-19 pandemic. Because the country will operate in a world with a great deal of domestic … trajectory during recent years. The pandemic has also left indelible scars, especially on people and businesses that were the …
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