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Climate-Related Shocks and Fiscal Sustainability : Potential Impacts and Policy Options
World Bank Group - 2023
Real GDP expanded by 17.7 percent in 2022, with per capita incomes surpassing the pre-pandemic levels. On the supply side, accommodation, transport, and commerce explained 60 percent of growth. On the demand side, exports (mainly tourism) and private consumption accounted for growth. The rebound...
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Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks : Evidence from IOM's Victims of Human Trafficking Database
World Bank Group - 2022
The report focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from and within … analysis verifies that economic shocks are significant risk factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking. In origin … correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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Policy Brief : Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks; Evidence from IOM's Victims of Human Trafficking Database
World Bank Group - 2022
focuses on risk factors that are expected to increase the vulnerability to human trafficking from and within origin countries … analysis verifies that economic shocks are significant risk factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking. In origin … correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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Boosting Financial Resilience to Disaster Shocks : Good Practices and New Frontiers
World Bank Group - 2019
disasters strike. Investments in physical and social resilience complement and reinforce financial resilience. Pre-arranged risk … financing can help governments reduce the fiscal cost of disasters. Sovereign catastrophe risk pools, established to help … financial resilience in their region. Governments are moving toward adopting more sophisticated risk financing strategies that …
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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
World Bank Group - 2020
shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates …
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Turkish Cypriot Community : Coping with the Turkish Lira Depreciation Shock
World Bank Group - 2018
The Turkish lira (TL) has depreciated to an extent not seen since the 2001 crisis, reaching its lowest level in September 2018 (TL 6.37/US 1.00 dollar), losing 66 percent of its value against the US dollar since January 2018. This Regular Economic Report focuses on the likely impact of the...
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Tunisia Economic Monitor, Summer 2020 : The COVID-19 Global Pandemic Shock
World Bank Group - 2020
The Tunisia Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies. It examines these economic developments and policies in a longer-term and global context and assesses their implications for the outlook for the country. There are two special focus sections in this...
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China Economic Update - June 2022 : Between Shocks and Stimulus - Real Estate Vulnerabilities and Financial Stability in China
World Bank Group - 2022
After a strong start in early 2022, the largest COVID-19 wave in two years and resulting mobility restrictions have disrupted China's growth normalization. The global environment has also significantly worsened following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth is...
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Assessment of Firms' Financial Resilience against Pandemic and Disaster Shocks in Albania
World Bank Group - 2021
Over the period 2019-21, Albania had to confront dual shocks: the 2019 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both had sizable impacts on the country's economy. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on an economy already affected by the earthquake in 2019. Key sectors were put in lockdown in...
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Mozambique Poverty Assessment, June 2023 : Poverty Reduction Setback in Times of Compounding Shocks
World Bank Group - 2023
This report relies on several data sources. The main source providing the poverty, inequality and labor figures herein is the 2019/20 Household Budget Survey (Inquerito sobre Orcamento Familiar, IOF2019/2020) conducted by the National Statistical Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estatistica,...
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