International trade and manufacturing activity have softened, trade tensions remain elevated, and some large emerging markets have experienced substantial financial market pressures, it said. The World Bank said growth among advanced economies is forecast to drop to two per cent this year. Slowing external demand, rising borrowing costs, and persistent policy uncertainties are expected to weigh on the outlook for emerging market and developing economies.
Learning from previous research: how to protect and train the healthcare workforce for pandemic response and effective vaccination rollout
People vaccination concept for immunity health. Evellean / Shutterstock.com
This blog entry is in a series that highlights insights from research for development policies and practice, supported by the Knowledge for Change Program (KCP).
The COVID-19 pandemic tests the resilience of primary health care systems and raises questions of how to maintain healthcare quality in a time of crisis. The largest global vaccination roll-out in history has started, but many countries are not well prepared for fast and effective implementation. According to the World Bank’s vaccine-readiness assessments of 128 low- and middle-income countries, while 85% of the countries have national vaccination plans, only 30% have developed processes to train a large number of front-line vaccinators who will be needed. At the same time, the second and third waves of C
Robert S. McNamara Fellowships Program (RSMFP) matches aspiring development economics researchers from developing countries with World Bank research economists creating unique opportunities for the fellows to participate in rigorous policy-relevant research in the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice Presidency (DEC). Fellows will be hosted at the World Bank in Washington, D.C. for 8 months (September to May each year) and work under the supervision of researchers in the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) and Development Research Group departments, engaging in high-quality and policy-relevant research projects.
By working with World Bank DEC researchers and their external academic collaborators from top universities, fellows will learn current research standards, acquire new econometric skills, and network with leading researchers in their field. They will have a unique opportunity to participate in rigorous policy-relevant research and widen their persp
Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 2 of 3
We continue our series of highlighting our recently recruited researchers. Today we cover researchers who work on the environment, infrastructure and sustainability, and on poverty and public economics – noting again that these labels do not cover the full range of topics being studied.
Environment, Infrastructure and Sustainability
Gabriel Englander studies how policy and illegal behavior affect wildlife conservation. He hopes to provide cross-support in the areas of marine fisheries, terrestrial wildlife conservation, forests, and land use. He shows in his job market paper that when regulators in Peru try to protect juvenile fish by temporarily closing specific areas of ocean, they inadvertently provide information about the location of schools of fish, resulting in large spillovers that cause the policy to backfire. Gabriel will earn his PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics this May an
Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 1 of 3
Over the past few years, two research departments in the Development Economics Vice Presidency (DECVP), namely the Development Research Group (DRG) and the Development Impact Evaluation unit (DIME) have recruited 24 researchers. Many of these junior researchers joined the World Bank during a period, in which they could not physically come to the office and meet with us, schedule coffee and lunch meetings with our operational colleagues, or attend conferences and give seminars in person to broaden their networks. To somewhat ameliorate this issue, we will be running a three-part series to introduce them to our colleagues in the Bank and the rest of the large development community outside of it. We have grouped them by fields and will introduce eight of them each day between today and Thursday. We hope that these short blurbs will pique the interest of our WB colleagues to reach out to these junior researchers to include them in the