Bridging the Digital Divide to Scale Up the COVID-19 Recovery
By Patrick Njoroge and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
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Digitalization has in the past few years enabled developing countries in particular to leapfrog on financial inclusion. Countries like Kenya, Ghana, Rwanda and Tanzania have made great advances in connecting their citizens to financial systems by leveraging on mobile phone technology. […]
Public Investment for the Recovery
By Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro, Catherine Pattillo, and Raphael Espinoza
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Governments around the world are taking extraordinary measures to respond to the COVID-19 crisis. While maintaining the focus on addressing the health emergency and providing lifelines for households and businesses, governments need to prepare economies for the transition to the post-COVID-19 world—including by helping people get back to work. […]
How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment
By Gerd Schwartz, Manal Fouad, Torben Hansen, and Geneviève Verdier
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COVID-19 has had a profound impact on people, firms, and economies all over the world. While countries have ramped up public lifelines to individuals and firms they will face enormous challenges to recover from the pandemic, amidst low economic activity and unprecedented levels of debt. […]
Why Sustainable Food Systems are Needed in a post-COVID World
By Nicoletta Batini, James Lomax, and Divya Mehra
Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and work. […]
Fiscal Policies for a Transformed World
By Vitor Gaspar and Gita Gopinath
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already prompted an unprecedented fiscal policy response of close to $11 trillion worldwide. […]
Fiscal Policies to Curb Climate Change
By Vitor Gaspar, Paolo Mauro, Ian Parry, and Catherine Pattillo
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Global warming has become a clear and present threat. Actions and commitments to date have fallen short. […]
Getting Real on Meeting Paris Climate Change Commitments
By Christine Lagarde and Vitor Gaspar
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Climate change is the great existential challenge of our times. It is a challenge that spans all regions, with especially severe consequences for low-income countries. […]