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Special Economic Zones : An Operational Review of Their Impacts
World Bank Group - 2017
Policy-makers across developing economies are implementing different forms of special economic zones (SEZs): programs intended to catalyze economic growth. The SEZ program is aimed at attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) to increase firm-level investment and improve firm-level productivity...
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Impacts of Covid-19 on the World Bank's Forest Investment Program Portfolio
World Bank Group - 2023
With the COVID-19 pandemic, the development context for the world is fundamentally challenged in many ways. The pandemic has taken a drastic human toll, and its global-scale economic and social impacts affected rural development work focused on the most poor and vulnerable populations. It has...
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The Economy in the Time of Covid-19
World Bank Group - 2020
After a period of rapid economic growth associated with high commodity prices, the region had entered a phase of lackluster performance. Recent developments, including a new oil price shock, and the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic will push the region into recession. Many countries are...
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Do's and Don'ts of Trade Policy in the Response to COVID-19
World Bank Group - 2020
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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Western Balkans Regular Economic Report, No. 17, Spring 2020 : The Economic and Social Impact of COVID-19
Schiffbauer, Marc Tobias - 2020
on economic life to contain the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. In the first half of 2020, the world has seen explosive …
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Kenya Economic Update, April 2020 : Turbulent Times for Growth in Kenya -- Policy Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic
World Bank Group - 2020
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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The COVID-19 Pandemic : Shocks to Education and Policy Responses
World Bank Group - 2020
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children and youth of primary- and secondary-school age were out of school. And low schooling quality meant many who were in school learned too little. The Learning Poverty rate in low-and...
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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 to COVID-19 : Preparing for School Re-Opening The Case of South Korea
World Bank Group - 2020
In this note the reader will learn : The new school year began with online classes for the first time. How the Ministry Of Education (MOE) and local education offices secured digital devices to lend to students in need, and schools prepared online class guidelines, including the class hours,...
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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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