COVID-19 in LAC : High Frequency Phone Surveys - Technical Note
Latin American and the Caribbean is one of the regions in the world most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the welfare impacts for households have been severe. At the macroeconomic level, the World Bank estimates a contraction of 6.9 percent o...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2021
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/398561623118610692/COVID-19-in-LAC-High-Frequency-Phone-Surveys-Technical-Note http://hdl.handle.net/10986/35902 |
| Summary: | Latin American and the Caribbean is one
of the regions in the world most affected by the COVID-19
pandemic, and the welfare impacts for households have been
severe. At the macroeconomic level, the World Bank estimates
a contraction of 6.9 percent of the region’s GDP in 2020,
due to pandemic-control measures and the deceleration of the
global economy (World Bank, 2021). Regional export prices
significantly dropped in the first semester of 2020 (5.2
percent) (Inter-American Development Bank, 2020), and
although they began to recover in the second half of the
year, the volume of goods-exports dropped by 8 points by the
third quarter of 2020 (World Bank, 2021). |
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