Monitoring COVID-19 Impacts on Firms in Ethiopia : Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Women-Owned Firms Differently
As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the Ethiopian economy, a major concern is that the pre-existing gendered challenges facing women entrepreneurs, in access to capital and hired labor, for example, will worsen, further undermining the survival and pe...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/480721602823558078/Monitoring-COVID-19-Impacts-on-Firms-in-Ethiopia-Does-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-Affect-Women-Owned-Firms-Differently http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34706 |
| Summary: | As COVID-19 continues to disrupt the
Ethiopian economy, a major concern is that the pre-existing
gendered challenges facing women entrepreneurs, in access to
capital and hired labor, for example, will worsen, further
undermining the survival and performance of women-owned
firms. However, very little data exist to monitor the gender
differences in impacts brought about by the COVID-19
pandemic. Therefore, in April 2020, the World Bank launched
a high-frequency phone survey (HFPS-F) of a random sample of
firms in Addis Ababa to collect detailed information on firm
operations, hiring and firing, and expectations of future
operations and labor demand. The analysis that follows draws
on the three rounds of the HFPS-F survey implemented between
April 15 and June 18, 2020, consisting of a balanced panel
of 454 firms from Addis Ababa. |
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