cases and 17 deaths, Mauritius has so far been able to avoid the large-scale health crisis observed in many other countries …, the crisis affords policy makers with the opportunity to confront long-festering challenges …

economic crisis. Social protection policies and programs have been used globally as effective mechanisms to respond to the … economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy note aims to document and analyze the design and implementation of … crisis. The programs that are part of the scope of the note are: (1) stay at home (quedate en casa, QEC), (2) the employee …

recessions, shrinking by 3.5 percent in 2020 compared to 1.7 percent in 2009 during the global financial crisis. The recession in … GDP and its pre-crisis trend - narrowed from -7.5 to -7.1 percent between Q2 and Q4 2020. By comparison, the average …

the COVID-19 crisis for the public sector and provides guidance on how governments and SOEs can use this crisis to build … or strengthen their crisis response systems. Suggested measures involve calibrating risks and introducing proper risk … public enterprises to bounce back in the post-crisis environment. This note draws on existing World Bank analysis of emerging …

significant portion of the negative effects of the crisis in Tunisia, although they do not fully account for such slow recovery …