Remittances are an important income source for poor and low-income rural households in Myanmar. In their research, Xinshen Diao and Kristi Mahrt develop a microsimulation model to assess the impact of declining remittances caused by COVID-19 on Myanmar... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Virtual seminar: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s economy and the impact of falling remittances on poverty
Join us for a webinar on June 11, 2020 at 8:30 AM MMT. Register now! COVID 19 and the mitigation policies imposed to control the spread of the disease have resulted in unexpected shocks to Myanmar’s economy. When industries and businesses must suspend ... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Assessing the Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s Economy
The policy measures taken by the Government of Myanmar to contain the transmission of COVID-19 were necessary and appropriate responses to the pandemic. Unfortunately, policy measures of this magnitude will inevitably have economic costs for firms, hou... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
A gender-transformative response to COVID-19 in Myanmar
On 27 April, the Myanmar Government published the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP), which aims to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the macroeconomic environment and the private sector and ease the impact on laborers, workers, and households. In their ... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
Strengthening smallholder agriculture to defend Myanmar’s food security and rural livelihoods against COVID-19
There is an urgent need to anticipate the threat posed by COVID-19 to Myanmar’s agricultural sector and to rural households that depend on farming for income and for food and nutrition security. In their research, Duncan Boughton, Joseph Goeb, Isabel L... Source: IFPRI Myanmar – The Myanmar Strategy Support Program
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