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The global COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the largest public health initiative ever undertaken, presents challenges … availability of safe and effective vaccines for COVID-19, the World Bank together with WHO, UNICEF, the Global Fund, and Gavi …
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In Q2, Russia's GDP contracted sharply, faced with domestic supply and demand, and terms of trade shocks. Yet supported by exports, GDP growth performed slightly above expectations. In the third quarter, as COVID-19 cases declined, restrictions eased and on the back of fiscal, monetary, and...
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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 … into a deep global recession. These costs of crisis are described below. But it is possible to counter those shocks, and to …
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presents findings on Coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccination disparities and hesitancy from the last three rounds of the Iraq High …While Iraq continues to experience a surge in the number of coronavirus cases, the proportion of the country …'s population that is vaccinated remains very low. For a more in-depth understanding of the state of vaccination in Iraq, this note …
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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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; while 2020 and early 2021 coincided with a global Coronavirus pandemic that further dampened prospects at both global and …
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The COVID-19 pandemic is posing an existential threat to the air transport sector globally, including in Africa. Due to sustained and significant loss of revenue coupled with the presence of several fixed and quasi-fixed inputs in this sector, the survival of carriers is questionable in the...
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City local governments have been facing multiple challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic to secure adequate financial resources for response and recovery. This report assesses the impact of the pandemic on local governments' financial situations through cross-country analysis and comparison....
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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 …
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