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The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced gender inequalities around the world

India: Rural women go digital to manage the pandemic’s disruptions
Muskanben Vohara and her group of women weavers in Gujarat’s Anand district were overcome with worry when the lockdown was announced to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
Tracking an Unprecedented Year for Businesses, Everywhere
STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Woman worker in leather goods factory in Bogota, Colombia
- Nearly every business in the world has been affected by COVID-19—in different ways. While one-fourth of companies saw sales falling 50 percent in October-January from pre-pandemic levels, a third said their sales increased or stayed the same.
- To capture the impact of the pandemic on firms’ performance, the World Bank launched ongoing surveys with more than 120,000 firms in over 60 countries. The assessment is expected to help inform recovery efforts.
- Developing countries have introduced multiple support programs, but businesses most affected by the shock—small firms and those in poorer countries—were the least likely to receive government support.
Recap: The impact of the pandemic on woman and girls.
Evidence from outbreaks similar to COVID-19 indicates that women and girls can be affected in particular ways, and in some areas, face more negative impacts than men. In fact, there is a risk that gender gaps could widen during and after the pandemic and that gains in women’s and girls’ accumulation of human capital, economic empowerment and voice and agency, built over the past decades, could be reversed. The World Bank Group is working to ensure that projects responding to COVID-19 consider the pandemic’s different impacts on men and women.
COVID-19 is hitting poor countries the hardest. Here’s how World Bank’s IDA is stepping up support
A year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, I was optimistic about the trends in global poverty: extreme poverty rates had been steadily declining for more than two decades. Although considerable challenges like debt still loomed large for the poorest countries, the positive trajectory in the fight against poverty brought great hope for a better future—a future I still believe in.
We are facing an unprecedented global challenge to protect every country from COVID-19
Countries cannot recover until all their people can live their lives with confidence.
IDA and the Private Sector Join Forces to Fight the Pandemic in the Most Fragile Countries
Equal access to digital technologies: A key to resilient recovery
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