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the impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on their economies and governance structures. Addressed to …
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The COVID-19 pandemic and the decline in global oil demand and prices dealt the GCC countries a health crisis and a commodity market shock. The GCC's aggregate GDP contracted by 4.8 percent in 2020 from 2019, with the growth outturns ranging from -3.7 in Qatar to an estimated -6.3 percent in...
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The selection of resources and platforms that you will find here has been elaborated in order to facilitate the rapid identification of helpful technological solutions that could be used to support remote learning. The resource list is regularly curated and organized by the World Bank's Edtech team
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Maintaining trade flows as much as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic will be crucial in providing access to essential food and medical items and in limiting negative impacts on jobs and poverty. Some countries are closing border crossings and implementing protectionist measures such as...
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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 of this crisis are unprecedented which requires thinking...
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Before the outbreak of the global novel coronavirus pandemic, the world was already dealing with a learning crisis, as … evidenced by high levels of Learning Poverty. With the spread of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), among many disruptions to …
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children face under each of these pillars due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis, together with response options, potential … platforms and country examples. While health and nutrition are key elements of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) emergency response and …
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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 …
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was living a learning crisis. Before the pandemic, 258 million children and youth of primary- and secondary-school age were out of school. And low schooling quality meant many who were in school learned too little. The Learning Poverty rate in low-and...
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Governments around the world are designing and implementing rapid responses to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. In … addressing and mitigating corruption risks in the COVID-19 (coronavirus) response, both in the initial response and in the medium … Institutional Response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) Pandemic …
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