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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
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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 … learning deficits. All this means that the world was already far off track for meeting Sustainable Development Goal 4, which …
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Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank's Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
World Bank Group - 2020
This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …
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Assessing Country Readiness for COVID-19 Vaccines : First Insights from the Assessment Rollout
World Bank Group - 2021
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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The World Bank Group's Early Support to Addressing the COVID-19 Economic Response, April 2020 - June 2021 : An Early-Stage Evaluation
World Bank Group - 2023
In the face of the global economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the World Bank delivered the …
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Global Rapid Post-Disaster Damage Estimation (GRADE) Report : Mw 7.8 Turkiye-Syria Earthquake - Assessment of the Impact on Syria (Results as of February 20, 2023)
World Bank Group - 2023
, 2023, the World Bank carried out a remote, desk-based assessment of the physical damages in Syria using the Global RApid …
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The World Bank's Early Support to Addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health and Social Response : An Early-Stage Evaluation
World Bank Group - 2022
This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps … Evaluation Group evaluation looks at the World Bank Group support to address the economic implications of the pandemic. To assess … recommendations for ensuring stronger future preparedness: (i) Use the World Bank's crisis recovery efforts to strengthen the …
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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 …
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Jamaica Customs Act : WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement Gap Analysis
World Bank Group - 2016
This paper reviews the alignment of the customs act of Jamaica to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Trade Facilitation …
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Nepal Earthquake Post Disaster Needs Aassessment
World Bank Group - 2015
The post disaster needs assessment (PDNA) assesses the impact of the April 25, 2015 earthquake in Nepal and defines a recovery strategy. In the analysis, damage is defined as the cost to replace durable physical assets (buildings, equipment, facilities, and machinery) that were damaged or...
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