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Russia Economic Report, No. 46, December 2021 : Amidst Strong Economic Recovery, Risks Stemming from COVID-19 and Inflation Build
World Bank Group - 2021
Russia saw strong growth in 2021, with momentum weakening late in the year. Growth will slow as Russia battles COVID-19 and elevated inflation. Globally, environmental sustainability is becoming central to the economic agenda. The challenge for Russia is to fundamentally transform its economic...
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Turkish Cypriot Economy, March 2021 : Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic - A Path to Building Back Better
World Bank Group - 2021
The special topic of this edition of the Macroeconomic Monitoring report focuses on the TC administration's 'public' financial support to the agriculture sector. Due to the Turkish lira depreciation, the recent adverse climate conditions, and exacerbated by the COVID-19 crisis, the agriculture...
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Ensuring Integrity in Government's Response to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
Governments around the world are designing and implementing rapid responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In … addressing and mitigating corruption risks in the COVID-19 (coronavirus) response, both in the initial response and in the medium … Institutional Response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic …
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Response Note to COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia : Policy and Practice Recommendations
World Bank Group - 2020
The Europe and Central Asia (ECA) Education Team's vision is for education systems to empower all to reach their full potential. In line with this vision, the purpose of this guidance note is to provide recommendations and policy advice for decision-makers on potential education responses to the...
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Protecting People and Economies : Integrated Policy Responses to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a global health emergency and an unprecedented economic crisis of historic magnitude. Governments facing this threat are in uncharted territory, but three policy priorities addressed in this note are clear. Disease containment is a first-order concern to...
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COVID-19 Impact Monitoring the the Household Level : Burkina Faso, Bulletin No. 2
World Bank Group - 2020
This note presents the results of the second round of a nationally representative telephone survey (HFPS). Data collection took place between July 20 and August 14, 2020. The 1,968 households that were successfully interviewed during the first round were called and 1,860 (94.5 percent of the...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Public Procurement in the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic : Results From an Experts Survey
World Bank Group - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented circumstances and challenges in many dimensions, without clear ex ante directions and guidance on the best strategies for coping with the emergency, including in public procurement. As a result, especially in the first months of the pandemic,...
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Managing the Fiscal Implications of Public-Private Partnerships in a Sustainable and Resilient Manner : A Compendium of Good Practices and Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemi...
World Bank Group - 2023
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can sometimes be perceived as a means for delivering infrastructure for free. A more nuanced but still inexact view is that they are a mechanism to overcome fiscal constraints. Some argue, perhaps rightly, that often governments enter PPP contracts without...
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Macedonia
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Macedonia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Macedonia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia,...
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Central Bank Digital Currencies for Cross-border Payments : A Review of Current Experiments and Ideas
World Bank Group - 2021
Over the years, the demand for seamless and inexpensive cross-border payments has grown in parallel with growth in international e-commerce, remittances and tourism. Yet, cross-border payments have not kept pace with the intensive modernization that has characterized domestic payment services...
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