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The Covid-19 pandemic shock, new shifting economic trends, and revisions in monetary policy by major central banks make macroeconomic forecasting a challenging task. This column reviews advancements in forecasting techniques that were discussed at the ECB’s 11th Conference on Forecasting Techniques, dedicated to “forecasting in abnormal times”. Researchers are currently
This Working Paper takes a unique look at microfinance institution innovation with digital technologies by featuring case studies on five MFIs that successfully created measurable customer and business value through digitization:
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a twin health and economic shock with devastating effects, particularly in low-income settings. This column uses a large phone survey and leverages the geographical variation in India's containment policies to examine how the pandemic and its containment policies affect women’s wellbeing. The authors find that stricter containment policies,
Staying with vaccination rates. the world health orgazination says millions of healthcare workers are still unvaccinated, many of them are working without adequate protective equipment. in africa, fewer than one in ten healthcare workers are jabbed. here�*s the who head. new who working paper estimates that 115,000 health workers may have died from covid—19 betweenjanuary 2020 and may this year. in eastern europe, countries with low vaccination rates are struggling with high covid—19 cases. we�*re going to look at romania and russia — first latvia. it�*s become the first country in...
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the 19 European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.