Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/259369 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2022/13
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multidimensional. While anecdotal evidence of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response has required real-time, researched data disaggregated for urban and rural populations and for various categories of the poor. The Power and Partcipation Research Centre and BRAC Institute for Governance and Development's fourround panel survey during 2020-21 provides unique insights into how COVID-19 impacted specific categories of the poor and vulnerable in Bangladesh, their coping strategies, and the extent to which policy support materialzed. While the poor as a whole demonstrated their agency in the face of the crisis, their resilience has been as much about deepening vulnerability as about recovery, representing an unfair burden of distress resilience. Informal workers, women, and the urban poor have been disproportionately impacted.
Subjects: 
COVID-19
livelihoods
informal
urban
resilience
poverty
Bangladesh
JEL: 
D3
I32
R20
O12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9267-144-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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