The Welfare Implications of COVID-19 for Fragile and Conflict-Affected Areas
Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on households’ welfare in areas at the admin-1 level subject to fragility, conflict, and violence is important to inform programs and policies in this context. Harmonized data from high-frequency p...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099402506132222309/IDU011c8bf3e0d81804c88083190e76adbe5f4d9 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37546 |
| Summary: | Understanding the impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic on households’ welfare in areas at the
admin-1 level subject to fragility, conflict, and violence
is important to inform programs and policies in this
context. Harmonized data from high-frequency phone surveys
indicate that, at the onset of the pandemic, a higher
fraction of households in areas affected by fragility,
conflict, and violence reported income declines and a higher
fraction of respondents reported that they had stopped
working since the beginning of the crisis. Households in
areas affected by fragility, conflict, and violence were far
less likely to report receiving government assistance than
those in other areas. These findings suggest that the
initial effects of the pandemic exacerbated preexisting
economic gaps between areas affected by fragility, conflict,
and violence and other areas, indicating that an even larger
effort will be necessary in areas affected by fragility,
conflict, and violence to recover from COVID-19, with
implications for funding needs and policy as well as program design. |
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