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OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: CROSS-COUNTRY SYNTHESIS
This cross-country synthesis study draws from four country studies, focusing on Albania, Ethiopia, Pakistan and South Africa, to calculate what the opportunity cost of budget reallocations was during the covid-19 pandemic. The research on which this synthesis is based took an exploratory approach to the methodology applied in each country to enable readers to learn from the process as much as from the results.
MANAGING THE FINANCIAL COST OF DISASTERS
Lessons for IDA from the UK Government’s approach to explicit contingent liabilities. This paper draws on learning from the UK’s Contingent Liability Approval Framework to consider how IDA could better support the systematic identification and management of contingent disaster liabilities for its client countries.