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Is Heading Home a Dead End? COVID-Induced Migration and Local Labor Market Opportunities in Rural India

On March 24 2020, the Indian government announced a nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19.  Implemented with just four hours’ notice, the lockdown forced millions of suddenly out-of-work migrants to return to their villages –often by foot over long distances. How can migrant-sending states support labor market opportunities for migrants without compromising COVID…

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Assessing the Impact of the Shock on the Most Vulnerable

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a particular challenge for low-income and fragile countries, as well as vulnerable groups, particularly women. Our Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey (SLMPS) 2020 project, with planned data collection starting in August/September 2020, has benefited from support from the GLM | LIC project. The study proposes additional data collection and research on…

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The Effects of Employer Responses to COVID-19 on Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh

Export manufacturing in low-income countries has been devastated by COVID-19.  For instance, 46% of garment factories in Bangladesh report that “a lot” to “most” of their orders have been cancelled (Anner 2020),  leading to mass demonstrations by workers who had not been paid for 3 months (Daily Star; April 17, 2020).  Female workers are likely…

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Assessing the Labor Market Impact of COVID-19 on Women with Young Children in Egypt

Women with young children are doubly challenged by the pandemic.  Disproportionately responsible for caregiving, yet faced with the loss of child care options in light of the pandemic and lockdowns, they will face particular difficulties in retaining or gaining work and may face increased stress and pressures within the household. These women are already the…

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Returns to Childcare and Capital: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

Microenterprises are an important source of employment, and developing such enterprises is a key policy concern in most countries, especially in low-income countries where they employ more than half of the labor force. While there is optimism about the power of finance for small-scale business development, a growing literature shows that success cannot be taken…

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Taming Counterfeits Markets with Consumer Information

Access to quality inputs is critical to boosting agricultural productivity. However, quantitative research (Tjernström et al 2017; Bold et al 2017; Ashour et al 2019) and news reports (Muchiri 2019; Okinda 2019) find that the quality of agricultural inputs—such as seeds, fertilizer, and pesticides–is often low in rural African markets. The inability of buyers to…

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Remittances and Coping with COVID‐19

The study seeks to support the Philippine COVID‐19 response by quantifying the role of international migrant remittances in helping households cope with the pandemic’s economic consequences. Remittances are known to provide important support for migrant‐origin households experiencing negative shocks. Little is known about whether migrants who are themselves experiencing negative shocks are able to provide…

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Gender Effects of COVID-19: Evidence from the Kenya Life Panel Survey

Governments in many countries are implementing social distancing measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19, yet there is limited evidence about the effectiveness of these measures in low-income contexts. This is particularly true of travel restrictions/lockdowns; this, plus school closures, are likely to have major labor market implications, and potentially differential effects by gender. The…

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Gender Differences in the Effects of the ‘Great Lockdown’on Time Use

This research will address whether and how the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates barriers to gender parity in developing countries by asymmetrically affecting time use for men and women. The effects of COVID-19 are likely to differ by gender (Alon et al., 2020), but the nature and extent of those differences are uncertain. The study, therefore, proposes…

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The Impact of COVID19 Pandemic on the Small Firms in Developing Countries

COVID19 has paralysed the world over the last few months. To limit the spread of the disease, many countries adopted lockdown and social distancing measures. While these measures are seen as vital in containing the disease, they have also precipitated an unprecedented economic crisis. The crisis is hitting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) harder on…

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