Numerous structural vulnerabilities put developing regions at a disadvantage as they confront the prospect of increasingly frequent extreme shocks. Typical of these regions, South Asia had...
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We use economywide models to examine the economic recovery from COVID-19 shocks in Bangladesh and Nepal during 2020–2026. Declining labor productivity, capital underutilization, consumption shifts...
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We use a risk governance lens to study food system risks during the pandemic.
Food system actors and risks were often not part...
This study investigates the effects of COVID-19 on fish consumption and nutrition intake based on a random survey of 247 fish consumers in Bangladesh. The Propensity Score Matching technique is used...
EU budget support is a means to deliver effective assistance, including in situations of crises. It is again demonstrated by the central part that it plays in the support provided to Ukraine...
Food insecurity is one of the rising problems in Bangladesh, and it is severely prevalent among informal migrant workers. In this case, the COVID-19 pandemic has multiplied the food insecurity...
Policy responses to slow the spread of COVID-19 have increased economic insecurity globally. We use panel data collected immediately before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with adolescents...
The COVID-19 pandemic not only imposed severe health risks but also raised major challenges to the economy, due to widespread and severe measures to control the spread of the disease...
COVID-19 and its accompanying effects have severely affected an estimated 0.3 million dairy farms and 65–70 thousand commercial poultry farms in Bangladesh. Many of them...
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COVID-19 pandemic declines the regular Practices for poultry farming.
Some problem faced in poultry farming due to outbreak of COVID-19.
Most of the poultry...