COVID-19 (coronavirus)

Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccination digital platform promotes transparency & public trust

IMPACT is a state-of-the-art information system championed by the Central Inspection Bureau (CIB). Initially created to digitalize the government’s audit exercise, the platform provides CIB…

Sherin Varkey, Abdallah Jabbour, Haneen Sayed, Hiya Mahmassani, Ronald Gomez-Suarez|
Digital Development, Health

Learning loss from Covid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Learning loss from Covid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Malawi

Salman Asim, Ravinder Gera, Archit Singhal|
Education

Staying engaged – Supporting people who face fragility and conflict

Fragility and conflict pose daunting challenges in an increasing number of places around the world, frequently spilling across borders, causing people to become refugees or internally displaced by…

Axel van Trotsenburg|
Fragility Conflict and Violence

Excess under-five mortality due to COVID-19 related economic downturn

Excess under-five mortality due to COVID-19 related economic downturn

Katelyn Jison Yoo, Joseph Millward, David Makram Bishai, Marcelo Cardona Cabrera, Alison Gemmill|
Health

Pandemic, prices, and poverty

The world’s poorest have faced two extraordinarily difficult years. The pandemic has caused unprecedented reversals in poverty reduction that are further exacerbated by rising inflation and the…

Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Nishant Yonzan, Ruth Hill, Christoph Lakner, Haoyu Wu, Nobuo Yoshida|
Poverty