Fluctuations in agricultural prices pose significant challenges for fragile and conflict-affected economies due to their critical role in ensuring food security. This study examines changes in agricultural...
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Highlights: High-frequency indicators of food affordability are unavailable in LMICs. Agencies invested in food price data after 2008, but not income or wage data. We...
Summary of the Myanmar Economic Monitor (June 2024) Myanmar's economy faces significant challenges in 2024, constrained by elevated conflict, increased macroeconomic volatility, and a difficult business...
Highlights: High-frequency indicators of food affordability are unavailable in LMICs. Agencies invested in food price data after 2008, but not income or wage data. We...
Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP) are growing faster than the rest of the world but slower than before the pandemic. Slowing global growth, still tight financial...
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...
Myanmar experienced multiple COVID shocks as well as a military takeover in February 2021. Impacts on household poverty remain uncertain, however, because large-scale in-person surveys...
Most economies in developing East Asia and Pacific (EAP), other than several Pacific Island Countries, have recovered from the succession of shocks since 2020 and are continuing to grow...
Myanmar’s agrifood system has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of multiple crises—COVID 19, the military coup, economic mismanagement, global price instability, and widespread conflict—with...
This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar’s poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note...