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This report is part of a larger series of stocktaking and analytical products on plastic pollution in South Asia. It supports the Bank's commitment to work with countries of South Asia to pursue and scale-up policies and programs that help them move toward a circular plastic economy and, in...
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unhealthy levels of ambient air pollution, especially in densely populated, poor locations. The World Health Organization's (WHO … pollution is a public health crisis for South Asia, not only imposing high economic costs but also causing an estimated 2 … million premature deaths each year. The health impacts of air pollution range from respiratory infections to chronic diseases …
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Health Organization considers healthy (5 micrograms per cubic meter). This pollution causes an estimated 2 million premature …
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COVID-19 created a dynamic shock to the international tourism industry, with the related health concerns and travel …
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Investing in One Health - cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary coordination and collaboration across the human health …, animal health, and environmental health sectors - is crucial for maintaining healthy agricultural and food systems and … addressing global health security risks. Such action can reduce the threat of future pandemics through upstream preventive …
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(coronavirus) crisis in Da Nang city and nationally in Vietnam. More specifically, we look at the social assistance (cash transfer …
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COVID-19 (coronavirus) virus and subsequent outbreaks in Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City. Nevertheless, the economy showed …
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This note analyzes the short-term effects of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) shock during the first year of the crisis and …
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In June 2020, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, with the support from the World Bank, has launched the High-Frequency Phone Survey on COVID-19 to track the impacts of the pandemic on a monthly basis for a period of 12 months. The survey aimed to recontact the entire sample of households that had...
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successful health response to the global Covid-19 pandemic through a hard lockdown and subsequent quarantine measures, and as a … cases and 17 deaths, Mauritius has so far been able to avoid the large-scale health crisis observed in many other countries …
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