response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing … have the potential to significantly enhance and boost systems for financial resilience against disaster shocks. Development …

as well as notable economic growth since overcoming the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. The World Bank led …

Over the period 2019-21, Albania had to confront dual shocks: the 2019 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both had …

Meeting the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals will require enormous infrastructure investment around the world …

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 … shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates …

) carried out by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Tunisia …

origin countries such as economic shocks, measured by large, discrete changes to export commodity prices and to GDP. It also …-trafficking policies, as protective factors that could weaken the link between economic shocks and an increase in human trafficking. The … analysis verifies that economic shocks are significant risk factors that increase vulnerability to human trafficking. In origin …

This policy brief presents the main findings of the report "Economic Shocks and Human Trafficking Risks. The report … such as economic shocks, measured by large, discrete changes to export commodity prices and to GDP. It also explores the …-trafficking policies, as protective factors that could weaken the link between economic shocks and an increase in human trafficking. The …