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McCarthy, F. Desmond; Wolf, Holger C.; Wu, Yi - 2000

The authors explore the two-sided link between malaria morbidity and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita growth …. Climate significantly affects cross-country differences in malaria morbidity. Tropical location is not destiny, however …: greater access to rural health care and greater income equality are associated with lower malaria morbidity. But the …

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Short but not Sweet : New Evidence on Short Duration Morbidities from India

Das, Jishnu; Sánchez-Páramo, Carolina - 2003

dataset where 1,621 individuals in Delhi were observed for 16 weeks through detailed weekly interviews on morbidity and health … terms of prevalence, practitioner visits, and household health expenditure: Individuals report a short duration morbidity in … one out of every five weeks. Moreover, one out of every three weeks reported with a short duration morbidity results in a …

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Lost Wages : The COVID-19 Cost of School Closures

Collis, Victoria; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2020

Social distancing requirements associated with COVID-19 have led to school closures. In April, 192 countries had closed all schools and universities, affecting more than 90 percent of the world's learners: over 1.5 billion children and young people. Closures are expected to reduce schooling and...

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Do, Minh N. N.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad - 2024

Although female labor force participation in the Islamic Republic of Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is a lack of studies on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country's female labor force participation. This paper finds that female labor force participation decreased...

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Effectiveness of Government Support for the Private Sector during the COVID-19 Crisis : Evidence from El Salvador and Georgia

Karalashvili, Nona; Tamkoc, M. Nazim - 2022

This paper estimates the effectiveness of government support to the private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic in El Salvador and Georgia using firm-level data collected before and during the pandemic. The two countries are selected because eligibility criteria for support involved pre-pandemic...

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The Impacts of Lockdown Policies on International Trade in the Philippines

Arenas, Guillermo Carlos; Majune, Socrates; Montfaucon, … - 2022

The Philippines was among the most infected countries in East Asia at the onset of the COVID-19 outbreak. This study analyzes how international trade on various margins was affected by the country's own lockdown policies and those of trading partners. Using a monthly series of product-by-country...

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COVID-19 and Economic Inequality : Short-Term Impacts with Long-Term Consequences

Agrawal, Sarthak; Bundervoet, Tom; Cojocaru, Alexandru; … - 2022

This paper examines the short-term implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for inequality in developing countries. The analysis takes advantage of high-frequency phone survey data collected by the World Bank to assess the distributional impacts of the pandemic through the channels of job and...

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Challenges of Public Credit Guarantee Schemes in Latin America during the Pandemic

Diaz Kalan, Federico A.; Miguel Liriano, Faruk; … - 2022

Partial credit guarantees have been a central tool in countries' strategies to support firms through the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents the results of a set of surveys covering 19 partial credit guarantees in 12 countries in the Latin America region, which were repeated at different...

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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender employment gap in egyptian manufacturing

El-Haddad, Amirah; Ishak, Phoebe Saad Wasfy - 2023

This paper examines the evolution of the gender employment gap post COVID-19 in the Egyptian manufacturing sector, using a unique firm-level data set. The findings show that the COVID-19 shock led to a slight improvement in the gender employment gap, both in absolute and relative terms, driven...

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Effects of COVID-19 on Student Learning

Baron, Juan; Mola, José; Pineda, Astrid Camille; … - 2025

This paper quantifies learning losses between 2020 and 2022 in the Dominican Republic, an upper-middle-income country. The paper uses data from a sample of ninth-grade students who benefited from computer adaptive learning software during this period. This study is among a few to measure actual...

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