Falling living standards during the COVID-19 crisis: Quantitative evidence from nine developing countries.
Adult
Africa
/ epidemiology
Agriculture
/ economics
Asia
/ epidemiology
COVID-19
/ economics
Child
Colombia
/ epidemiology
Developing Countries
/ economics
Domestic Violence
Economic Recession
Employment
/ trends
Family Characteristics
Female
Food Insecurity
/ economics
Government Programs
/ economics
Humans
Income
/ trends
Male
Pandemics
/ economics
SARS-CoV-2
Seasons
Surveys and Questionnaires
Journal
Science advances
ISSN: 2375-2548
Titre abrégé: Sci Adv
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101653440
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
02 2021
02 2021
Historique:
received:
30
07
2020
accepted:
18
12
2020
entrez:
6
2
2021
pubmed:
7
2
2021
medline:
20
2
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Despite numerous journalistic accounts, systematic quantitative evidence on economic conditions during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic remains scarce for most low- and middle-income countries, partly due to limitations of official economic statistics in environments with large informal sectors and subsistence agriculture. We assemble evidence from over 30,000 respondents in 16 original household surveys from nine countries in Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines), and Latin America (Colombia). We document declines in employment and income in all settings beginning March 2020. The share of households experiencing an income drop ranges from 8 to 87% (median, 68%). Household coping strategies and government assistance were insufficient to sustain precrisis living standards, resulting in widespread food insecurity and dire economic conditions even 3 months into the crisis. We discuss promising policy responses and speculate about the risk of persistent adverse effects, especially among children and other vulnerable groups.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33547077
pii: 7/6/eabe0997
doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abe0997
pmc: PMC7864564
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Subventions
Organisme : NICHD NIH HHS
ID : P2C HD073964
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CC BY).
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