Who did Covid-19 hurt the most in Sub-Saharan Africa ?
How did the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic impact poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa This paper tackles this question by combining 73 High-Frequency Phone Surveys collected by national governments in 14 countries with older nationally representative surveys containing information on household consumption. In particular, it examines how outcomes differed according to predicted per capita consumption quintiles in the first wave of the survey, and in subsequent waves by households’ predicted per capita consumption. The initial shock affected households throughout the predicted welfare distribution. Households in the bottom 40 percent responded by sharply increasing farming activities between May and July of 2020 and gradually increasing ownership of non-farm enterprises starting in August. This coincided with an improvement in welfare, as measured by a decline in food insecurity and distressed asset sales among these households during the second half of 2020. With respect to education, children in the bottom quintile were 15 percentage points less likely to engage in learning activities than those in the top quintile in the immediate aftermath of the crisis, and the engagement gap between the bottom 40 and top 60 widened in the summer before narrowing in the fall due to large declines in engagement among the top 60. Poorer households were slightly more likely to report receiving public assistance immediately following the shock, and this difference changed little over the course of 2020. The results highlight the widespread impacts of the crisis both on welfare and children’s educational engagement, the importance of agriculture and household non-farm enterprises as safety nets for the poor, and the substantial recovery made by the poorest households in the year following the crisis.
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dig-okr-10986412522024-04-24T21:21:39Z Who did Covid-19 hurt the most in Sub-Saharan Africa ? Seuyong, Feraud Tchuisseu Edochie, Ifeanyi Newhouse, David Silwal, Ani Rudra COVID-19 SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA DISTRIBUTIONAL IMPACTS How did the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic impact poor households in Sub-Saharan Africa This paper tackles this question by combining 73 High-Frequency Phone Surveys collected by national governments in 14 countries with older nationally representative surveys containing information on household consumption. In particular, it examines how outcomes differed according to predicted per capita consumption quintiles in the first wave of the survey, and in subsequent waves by households’ predicted per capita consumption. The initial shock affected households throughout the predicted welfare distribution. Households in the bottom 40 percent responded by sharply increasing farming activities between May and July of 2020 and gradually increasing ownership of non-farm enterprises starting in August. This coincided with an improvement in welfare, as measured by a decline in food insecurity and distressed asset sales among these households during the second half of 2020. With respect to education, children in the bottom quintile were 15 percentage points less likely to engage in learning activities than those in the top quintile in the immediate aftermath of the crisis, and the engagement gap between the bottom 40 and top 60 widened in the summer before narrowing in the fall due to large declines in engagement among the top 60. Poorer households were slightly more likely to report receiving public assistance immediately following the shock, and this difference changed little over the course of 2020. The results highlight the widespread impacts of the crisis both on welfare and children’s educational engagement, the importance of agriculture and household non-farm enterprises as safety nets for the poor, and the substantial recovery made by the poorest households in the year following the crisis. 2024-03-21T20:57:07Z 2024-03-21T20:57:07Z 2024-03-21 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099811103192437778/IDU1b3e0a7951932214f961967411b4ad343096a https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41252 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper; 10726 CC BY 3.0 IGO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank application/pdf text/plain Washington, DC: World Bank |
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How did the economic crisis caused by
the Covid-19 pandemic impact poor households in Sub-Saharan
Africa This paper tackles this question by combining 73
High-Frequency Phone Surveys collected by national
governments in 14 countries with older nationally
representative surveys containing information on household
consumption. In particular, it examines how outcomes
differed according to predicted per capita consumption
quintiles in the first wave of the survey, and in subsequent
waves by households’ predicted per capita consumption. The
initial shock affected households throughout the predicted
welfare distribution. Households in the bottom 40 percent
responded by sharply increasing farming activities between
May and July of 2020 and gradually increasing ownership of
non-farm enterprises starting in August. This coincided with
an improvement in welfare, as measured by a decline in food
insecurity and distressed asset sales among these households
during the second half of 2020. With respect to education,
children in the bottom quintile were 15 percentage points
less likely to engage in learning activities than those in
the top quintile in the immediate aftermath of the crisis,
and the engagement gap between the bottom 40 and top 60
widened in the summer before narrowing in the fall due to
large declines in engagement among the top 60. Poorer
households were slightly more likely to report receiving
public assistance immediately following the shock, and this
difference changed little over the course of 2020. The
results highlight the widespread impacts of the crisis both
on welfare and children’s educational engagement, the
importance of agriculture and household non-farm enterprises
as safety nets for the poor, and the substantial recovery
made by the poorest households in the year following the crisis. |
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