Understanding the Economic Impact of Vaccination
The World Bank East Asia and the Pacific Economic Update April 2022 analyzed challenges and opportunities facing the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region.
Empowering Female Entrepreneurs to Cross Over into Male-Dominated Sectors
Female entrepreneurship is on the rise globally. However, factors such as social norms and unconscious biases are holding women back from entering more profitable male-dominated sectors.
For Reduced Exposure to COVID-19, the Quality of Your Internet Matters
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments-imposed movement restrictions to curb the spread of the disease.
Social Norms and Gender Equality in South Asia
This blog highlights recent work from a larger body of research on gender equality carried out at the World Bank.
Communicating for Health: How Did Indians Get Informed about COVID-19 during the Pandemic?
The COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented amount of scientific information disseminated: throughout 2020, 11 research articles on COVID-19 were published every hour.
Facebook’s Covid-19 Trends and Impact Survey
With as many as 8 vaccines approved for use around the world the most urgent need now to control the spread of the novel coronavirus is increasing vaccination rates.
Examining the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in India through Daily Electricity Consumption and Nighttime Light Intensity
Challenge The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted economic activity in India. When COVID-19 started to spread in India through domestic contagion, the authorities enacted a series of measures to combat the pandemic, including a strict national lockdown from March 25 to May 4 that strongly disrupted economic activity.
Analyzing Spatial Accessibility of Health Facilities in Indonesia and Philippines
Challenge: Indonesia and the Philippines are archipelagos, where geographic and administrative boundaries are similar. The collection of islands is home to different concentrations of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups, with an imbalanced distribution of health facilities and physicians.
Tackling COVID-19 Second Wave using Facebook Mobility Data in Vietnam
Challenge: On July 24, after 99 days of zero community-transmitted COVID-19 infections, a 57 year-old man tested positive in Danang, a major city in central Vietnam with close to 1.
How to Find Population Movement Data for Your Country: The Mobile Location Data Inventory
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, so have measures to mitigate its spread. Physical distancing and movement restrictions – such as school and workplace closures, public event cancellations, stay-at-home orders, and international and domestic travel bans – vary considerably across countries.
Google, Apple, and Facebook: Understanding Mobility during Social Distancing with Private Sector Data
As countries around the world work to contain the spread and impact of COVID-19, the World Bank Group is moving quickly to provide fast, flexible responses to help developing countries strengthen their pandemic response and health care systems.
Addressing COVID-19 through Public-Private Data Partnerships: Where Do We Put New Testing Facilities?
Background As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, the World Bank is ramping up its response to help countries around the world.
A New Predictive Model for More Accurate Electrical Grid Mapping
Challenge: When planning connectivity deployments in emerging markets, it is important to have a clear picture of where existing power lines are placed.
Tackling the Global Profitarchy–Gender and the Choice of Business Sector
Challenge: Despite significant progress in women’s educational attainment and higher female labor force participation rates in many countries, progress in closing the gender pay gap, which takes the ratio of median earnings of all women to all men, has been slow.