This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps … recommendations for ensuring stronger future preparedness: (i) Use the World Bank's crisis recovery efforts to strengthen the … resilience of essential health and education. (ii) Apply a gender equality lens to health and social crisis response actions …

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 …

Before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, Somalia's economy was on an upward trajectory, recovering from the 2016 … grow at 3.2 percent in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted Somalia's economic recovery. The crisis will have a …'s trading partners (mainly China, the United Arab Emirates, India, Turkey, and Oman); cancellations of the 2020 Hajj and export …

The COVID-19 crisis brought home the high costs of pandemics, triggering a historic setback in the fight against …

were needed most. Today, COVID-19 (coronavirus) has brought the reckoning for that shared failure-but also the chance to do … emergent threats, but also long-term structural trends that are reshaping the environments in which systems operate in non-crisis …

they spread widely. The final set focuses on advanced case management and surge response during an epidemic or pandemic …

impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the Tunisian economy and the second presents findings from a diagnostic of …