Pandemics are confronted in a different context in developing countries and thus its containment has different consequences. Women may be especially vulnerable in these settings given gender norms, low availability of mental health services, and weaker state capacity. To examine how women fare in these contexts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the researchers conduct a large…
Migration and the Labour Market Impacts of COVID-19
Since COVID-19 is primarily transmitted via face-to-face contact, migration plays an outsized role in its global spread. Furthermore, as social distancing policies entail a restriction of migration, be it international or national, households’ whose income is dependent to some degree on labor migration remittances have seen their livelihoods considerably affected. With 272 million people living…
Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development
Access to formal deposit accounts is still far from a reality for 1.7 billion adults worldwide, most of them living in developing countries. Therefore, savings by the poor have become a priority in the development agenda and savings mobilization strategies for the poor are widely seen as key initiatives for agricultural development, food security and…
Seasonal Poverty and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Three quarters of the worlds’ poor live in rural areas. It is therefore imperative to understand how the COVID-19 Pandemic and the corresponding economic recession affects them. As a long research line has already investigated, seasonality is a preponderant economic feature in the life in rural communities. Today, many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South…
Poor and Rational: Decision-Making under Scarcity
Individual decision-making is prone to behavioral biases and deviations, especially among the poor. To get a grip on the extent of this, multiple approaches have been developed and investigated, however, evidence on how and why the availability of financial resources affects decision-making is largely missing. In this paper, researchers use multiple resources of variation in…
IZA/FCDO Online Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa
G2LM|LIC proudly announces the launch of IZA/FCDO Online Development Economics Course for Sub-Saharan Africa. On 17th September, the course began with 1440 participants from 43 countries. Over a period of two months, the participants will be guided through a combination of recorded lectures and live sessions every week. The course is taught by Professors Oriana…
IZA/FCDO online short course was a big success
The IZA/FCDO online short course on research skills for Sub-Saharan Africa took place on 17 and 18 December 2020. The event was attended by 250 participants from 33 African countries. The course consisted of teaching videos and an online Q&A. The lectures covered several relevant topics for researchers and were given by Oriana Bandiera (London…