A5016072938- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Infection Control and Ventilation
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
University of California, Berkeley
2021
Center for Effective Global Action
2021
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 statistics in environments with large informal sectors subsistence agriculture. We assemble from over 30,000 respondents 16 original household surveys nine countries Africa (Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Sierra Leone), Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, Philippines),...
Abstract Background Many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have so far avoided large outbreaks of COVID-19, perhaps due to the strict lockdown measures that were imposed early pandemic. Yet harsh socio-economic consequences lockdowns led many governments ease restrictions favor less stringent mitigation strategies. In absence concrete plans for widespread vaccination, masks remain one few tools available low-income populations avoid spread SARS-CoV-2 foreseeable future. Methods We compare mask...