#Worldbank

1/ #COVID19 “upends the wisdom about remittances being very stable” “The countries where migrant workers are temporarily based are experiencing a big crisis, and many of them are in the

So World Bank issued “pandemic bonds” in 2017 with an interest rate of 12% that were set to mature in July 2020, with one catch: If “coronavirus“ became a pandemic

sathviknishanth

A tale of two countries: India vs China/ Airline Pax #rstats using WDI package A tale of two countries, this time: Ireland's dramatics rise in terms of Airline Pax -

About a decade ago a group of countries in Africa were thought to be on the verge of becoming rich from petroleum. In fresh #WB report with @thomasscurfield we analyzed

Srikanth ஸ்‌ரீகாந்த்

If only, you don't take away agency in the first place, you don't need to think of restoring agency.https://twitter.com/SocietalPlatfrm/status/1324593764522848256 But who made ID linking to school mandatory @SocietalPlatfrm ? Who

özlem altınkaya

ozlem_altinkaya

"But if we’re going to have cities and the coronavirus, maybe the future is 1922, not 2022."https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/opinion/cities-density-coronavirus.html?smid=tw-share several counter-arguments on the urban density-COVID relati

**HOW MUCH DOES THAT INTERVENTION COST?**I just moderated a @CEGA_UC panel with editors from four economics or development journals about how to make cost data more prevalent in studies and

On a serious note is there a risk of sovereign defaults from nations that rely heavily on oil exports? Here's 2018 data for heavily exposed countriesh/t @timpastoor for the idea

Maitreyi Bordia Das

Today’s session on women and “natural disasters” spawned this thread in my head. I mean. The thoughts were there. The thread is here.Let me start w 2 tropes. 1.Women are

Not atmanirbhar only नेहरू पर निर्भर feku😅

UnderratedPappu

Some achievements of Nehru:*Famine deaths stopped and poverty came down to 59% from 70%*Children enrollment in schools increased by 150%. It took another 40 years for the next 150% jump.*

With all due respect to @nitabhalla, the article's title is misleading. Pregnant girls will not be able to attend school, they will only be able to attend alternative education centres

HIGHLIGHTS: —PMB has approved estab of N500 billion COVID-19 Crisis Intervention Fund—Revision of 2020 Budget Benchmarks—FGN will tap Budget funding from World Bank, AfDB, IDB etc—N102.5bn for direct healthcare interventions

I hear an inherent sneer when Indians, news orgs says: "Even Bangladesh's economy is doing better than India."Why this "even"? The polite way to see this "even" is that it

What if you focused on Nigerian Police Colleges for overhaul? Potentially, you can start seeing results in under 2 years and it will cost almost nothing #EndSARS How does

@PMOIndia @narendramodi @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia @realDonaldTrump @NicolasMaduro @AbeShinzo @IndiaVenezuela @WorldBank @GitaGopinath @DasShaktikanta @RBI @loksabhaspeaker @rashtrapatibhvn @VPSecretariat @NITIAayog @amitabhk87 @RNTata2000 Please see

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab

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Most common neoliberal remedy to student debt? Financial education.Guess what? Doesn’t work. Except for rich kids.Those living the CREAM life already know the value of a dollar.https://twitter.com/danielmangrum/status/1197534949651275776 Many college