How can policimakers mitigate the negative impact of COVID-19 on education finance?

Kenya has undertaken policy reforms that directly benefit many low-income Kenyan households.

This brief provides a prognosis of how the pandemic might affect global trends in international economic migration and remittances in 2020 and 2021.

Update on migration and remittance flows as well as salient policy developments in the area of migration and development

Harnessing the potential of fintech while mitigating associated risks

Evidence from an Islamic finance marketing experiment

Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has been significantly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak and is forecast to fall sharply from 2.4% in 2019 to -2.1 to -5.1% in 2020, the first recession in the region over the past 25 years, according to the latest Africa’s Pulse, the World Bank’s twice-yearly economic update for the region.

The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development (KNOMAD) addresses gaps and quality issues regarding data on migration and remittances by researching, collecting and publishing global data to enable more effective engagement on migration and development.

This dataset includes measures of depth, access, efficiency, and stability of financial systems for 214 economies.

The Global Findex database is the world’s most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk.

The GPSS aims to take an accurate snapshot of payment systems worldwide to obtain information on payment system reforms and the factors which hinder and/or facilitate them in order to help guide policy-dialogue at the international and national levels, and World Bank Group technical assistance.