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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 … shock to all education systems in our lifetimes. The damage will become even more severe as the health emergency translates …
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impact of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic on the Tunisian economy and the second presents findings from a diagnostic of …) carried out by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Tunisia …
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Meeting the 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals will require enormous infrastructure investment around the world …
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Over the period 2019-21, Albania had to confront dual shocks: the 2019 earthquake and the COVID-19 pandemic. Both had sizable impacts on the country's economy. The COVID-19 pandemic took a heavy toll on an economy already affected by the earthquake in 2019. Key sectors were put in lockdown in...
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correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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correlated with observed cases of trafficking. For instance, the economic shock produced by a typical decrease in export …
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Governments face growing contingent liabilities from disasters as they tend to shoulder a significant share of disaster response and recovery costs. Disaster shocks increase government expenditure and hamper economic activities. An increasing number of countries are developing financial...
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across the world, including many vulnerable communities, who depend on tourism for their livelihoods. According to the World …
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2018 as part of the Human Capital Project (HCP), a lobal effort to accelerate progress towards a world where all children …
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