Impacts of COVID-19 on the Private Sector in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Situations
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is having a significant negative impact on the private sector in developing economies, and businesses and individuals in fragile and conflict-affected situations are among the most severely affected. The pandemic has evolved rapidly from a health emergency to a global economic crisis, spreading through the real sector and posing growing risks to financial systems. Notable sector-level impacts include supply and demand-based shocks to infrastructure and private healthcare; disruptions to imports, exports, and global and local value chains; and declining agribusiness activity that threatens food insecurity, all leading to financial sector instability. This note examines these sector-level impacts and provides recommendations for how the development community can address them. It advocates, among other things, for balancing short-term, sector-level relief and restructuring efforts with planning for a medium-term to long-term recovery, leveraging upstream interventions to “Build Back Better,” and collaborating with governments and development partners. As fragile and conflict-affected situations face further pandemic-related setbacks on top of already substantial hardships, it is critical that the global development community prioritize support to these vulnerable populations.
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Format: | Brief biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC
2020-11
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Subjects: | FRAGILE AND CONFLICT AFFECTED STATES, CORONAVIRUS, COVID-19, PANDEMIC IMPACT, PRIVATE INVESTMENT, TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BANK, EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES, SUPPLY CHAIN, VALUE CHAIN, PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE, FINANCE, FOOD SECURITY, AGRIBUSINESS, DIGITAL SERVICES, PRIVATE EQUITY, GENDER, DONOR COMMUNITY, |
Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/550771606380666949/Impacts-of-COVID-19-on-the-Private-Sector-in-Fragile-and-Conflict-Affected-Situations http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34857 |
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