25 12, 2020

COVID-19 and SDG 8: Reviving economies, restoring livelihoods

By 2021-01-12T18:03:55+00:00December 25, 2020|

In Bangladesh, 71% of urban slum-dwellers and 55% of the rural poor have no jobs because of the pandemic.

8 01, 2021

Bangladesh’s tax revenue increases in first half despite COVID-19 fallout

By 2021-01-12T18:01:46+00:00January 8, 2021|

The country’s tax revenue collection grew by 2.10% in the first half of the current fiscal year.

9 01, 2021

COVID-19 And SDG 11: Making cities liveable

By 2021-01-12T18:01:24+00:00January 9, 2021|

Bangladesh’s performance on indicators under SDG 11 has been mixed.

5 12, 2020

How has the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Ugandan businesses? Results from a business climate survey

By 2021-01-05T17:42:23+00:00December 5, 2020|

This issue of the Uganda Business Climate Index examines the effect of the risk presented by COVID-19 on Uganda’s businesses.

3 11, 2020

Socio-economic impacts of coronavirus on peripheral populations in Pakistan: A study of Swat district

By 2021-01-05T17:55:17+00:00November 3, 2020|

This analysis uses as main indicators economic stresses, social and family life, and mental health.

7 12, 2020

Direct Economic Costs of COVID-19 on Tourism

By 2021-01-27T19:24:54+00:00December 7, 2020|

Google search data, when combined with past tourist arrivals data, helps to increase the accuracy of tourism demand forecasting for [...]

9 12, 2020

8FYP should embed resilient Covid-19 recovery and sustainable LDC graduation

By 2021-01-05T18:01:58+00:00December 9, 2020|

The event put forward some recommendations based on the experience of the 7FYP while taking into account the challenges of [...]

5 01, 2021

Thinking about the pandemic from a new perspective: 6 proposals for Disaster Risk Management as a framework for action for the pandemic and recovery

By 2021-01-18T18:17:57+00:00January 5, 2021|

How can we improve responses and think about structural solutions for the future in terms of new and recurring natural [...]

27 11, 2020

Multilateral Organisations have an important role in the recovery from COVID-19

By 2021-01-05T18:04:20+00:00November 27, 2020|

During this pandemic, these organisations were proactive, even though the multilateral development system was under stress, perhaps as never before.

23 11, 2020

IEP organized a thematic cycle on ‘fake news’ during the Covid-19 pandemic

By 2021-02-01T20:50:37+00:00November 23, 2020|

Uncertainty in people paves the way for the appearance and dissemination of false and deliberately distributed information.