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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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...
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...
The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has done an independent evaluation of a programme that aimed to promote and institutionalize AA and SRSP...
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We conducted a 6-round panel phone survey of 2000 mothers of young children in 2020, covering two distinct COVID-19 shocks.
Poverty rose dramatically...
This e-book builds upon the lessons presented in our earlier volume, COVID-19 & Global Food Security (2020). In that book, we documented the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Ten rounds of the Rural-Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) have been conducted between June 2020 and December 2021 to assess the impacts of Myanmar’s economic, political...
National poverty rates in Myanmar have risen dramatically due to economic disruption following the February 1, 2021 military take-over of government. Depending on assumptions about...
To assess the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on households in Myanmar, recent high-frequency telephone survey evidence on incomes, coping strategies, and food security from both rural and urban households...