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Going Viral : COVID-19 and the Accelerated Transformation of Jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Beylis, Guillermo; Fattal-Jaef, Roberto; Sinha, Rishabh; Morris, Michael; Sebastian, Ashwini Rekha

The economic impact of COVID-19 is unprecedented in size and scope. It has quickly evolved from a health emergency into an employment crisis. It also has far-reaching implications for workers beyond the immediate employment effects, as it most likely has accelerated the transformation process of jobs that had already s ...

The economic impact of COVID-19 is unprecedented in size and scope. It has quickly evolved from a health emergency into an employment crisis. It also has far-reaching implications for workers beyond t ...

The economic impact of COVID-19 is unprecedented in size and scope. It has quickly evolved from a health emergency into an employment crisis. It also has far-reaching implications for workers beyond the immediate employment effects, as it most likely has accelerated the transformation process of jobs that had already started in the region and the world. This book focuses on three important pre-pandemic tren ...

Sep 28, 2020
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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, October 2020 : From Containment to Recovery

World Bank

COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession. Without action on multiple fronts, the pandemic could reduce regional growth over the next decade by 1 percentage po ...

COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recessi ...

COVID-19 has delivered a triple shock to the developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) region: the pandemic itself, the economic impact of containment measures, and reverberations from the global recession. Without action on multiple fronts, the pandemic could reduce regional growth over the next decade by 1 percentage point per year, with the greatest impacts being felt by poor households, because of lower le ...

Sep 28, 2020
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Fiscal Rules and Economic Size in Latin America and the Caribbean

Blanco, Fernando; Saavedra, Pablo; Koehler-Geib, Friederike; Skrok, Emilia

Following the collapse of commodity prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2014-15, many countries in the region were unable to cushion the impact of the shock in order to experience a more gradual adjustment, to a large extent because they had not built adequate fiscal buffers during the commodities’ windf ...

Following the collapse of commodity prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2014-15, many countries in the region were unable to cushion the impact of the shock in order to experience a mor ...

Following the collapse of commodity prices in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) in 2014-15, many countries in the region were unable to cushion the impact of the shock in order to experience a more gradual adjustment, to a large extent because they had not built adequate fiscal buffers during the commodities’ windfall from 2010-14. Many LAC countries entered 2020 and the COVID-19 crisis in an even more ...

Sep 23, 2020
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Breaking Out of Fragility : A Country Economic Memorandum for Diversification and Growth in Iraq

World Bank

Iraq is at a crossroads. Almost two decades after the 2003 war, the country remains caught in a fragility trap, facing increasing political instability, growing social unrest, and a deepening state-citizen divide. Amid a multitude of crises—including an oil price shock, the COVID-19 pandemic, and recent instability and ...

Iraq is at a crossroads. Almost two decades after the 2003 war, the country remains caught in a fragility trap, facing increasing political instability, growing social unrest, and a deepening state-ci ...

Iraq is at a crossroads. Almost two decades after the 2003 war, the country remains caught in a fragility trap, facing increasing political instability, growing social unrest, and a deepening state-citizen divide. Amid a multitude of crises—including an oil price shock, the COVID-19 pandemic, and recent instability and protests—coupled with poor economic policies, a lack of reforms, and an inability to tack ...

Sep 30, 2020
Book

Building the Right Skills for Human Capital : Education, Skills, and Productivity in the Kyrgyz Republic

Hou, Dingyong; Acevedo, Karina; de Laat, Joost; Larrison, Jennica

THIS IS A CONFERENCE EDITION FOR PUBLICATION EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER 2020. Building the Right Skills for Human Capital summarizes the findings from the 2019 skills survey for the adult Kyrgyz population. The skills measures used in the survey focus on literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology rich environments ...

THIS IS A CONFERENCE EDITION FOR PUBLICATION EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER 2020. Building the Right Skills for Human Capital summarizes the findings from the 2019 skills survey for the adult Kyrgyz population. ...

THIS IS A CONFERENCE EDITION FOR PUBLICATION EXPECTED IN NOVEMBER 2020. Building the Right Skills for Human Capital summarizes the findings from the 2019 skills survey for the adult Kyrgyz population. The skills measures used in the survey focus on literacy, numeracy, and problem solving in technology rich environments (PSTRE) and followed the same questions and approach as the OECD’s PIAAC surveys. Most jo ...

Sep 23, 2020
Report

Water in the Balance : The Economic Impacts of Climate Change and Water Scarcity in the Middle East

Taheripour, Farzad; Tyner, Wallace E.; Sajedinia, Ehsanreza; Aguiar, Angel; Chepeliev, Maksym; Corong, Erwin; de Lima, Cicero Z.; Haqiqi, Iman

Innovations in water management and irrigated agriculture powered water-scarce Middle Eastern economies for millennia. However, as water becomes scarcer because of population growth and economic development, and even more erratic because of climate change, the region’s water security is coming under increasing threat. ...

Innovations in water management and irrigated agriculture powered water-scarce Middle Eastern economies for millennia. However, as water becomes scarcer because of population growth and economic devel ...

Innovations in water management and irrigated agriculture powered water-scarce Middle Eastern economies for millennia. However, as water becomes scarcer because of population growth and economic development, and even more erratic because of climate change, the region’s water security is coming under increasing threat. This report applies an economic model, the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) computable ...

Sep 28, 2020

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