Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar

This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar’s poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty Assess...

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spelling okr-10986-376992022-07-14T05:11:08Z Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar World Bank COVID-19 MILITARY COUP POVERTY REDUCTION ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN DESTITUTION INEQUALITY DECLINING INCOME MENTAL HEALTH This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar’s poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty Assessment and the World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys. Analysis of welfare trends and drivers of poverty changes draws from the Poverty Assessment and covers the period 2005–2017, in line with existing national household surveys. Analysis of COVID-19 and 2021 military coup effects relies on the World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) conducted between March 2020 and February 2022. Starting May 2020, seven rounds of the phone survey data have been collected, each with national coverage consisting of a sample of 1,500 households, with the exception of the sixth round. Six survey cover the period May 2020–January 2021 during the pandemic and prior to the military coup, and one covers February 2022, one year after the military takeover on 1 February 2021. Annex one and Annex two provides more details of the survey implementation and respondent profile. 2022-07-13T19:32:00Z 2022-07-13T19:32:00Z 2022-07-08 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099450007082232463/P1770020f407030d80aa36009c7d6519b67 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37699 English en_US Myanmar Poverty Synthesis Note; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC : World Bank Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Poverty Assessment East Asia and Pacific Myanmar
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topic COVID-19
MILITARY COUP
POVERTY REDUCTION
ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN
DESTITUTION
INEQUALITY
DECLINING INCOME
MENTAL HEALTH
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POVERTY REDUCTION
ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN
DESTITUTION
INEQUALITY
DECLINING INCOME
MENTAL HEALTH
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Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
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description This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar’s poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty Assessment and the World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys. Analysis of welfare trends and drivers of poverty changes draws from the Poverty Assessment and covers the period 2005–2017, in line with existing national household surveys. Analysis of COVID-19 and 2021 military coup effects relies on the World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) conducted between March 2020 and February 2022. Starting May 2020, seven rounds of the phone survey data have been collected, each with national coverage consisting of a sample of 1,500 households, with the exception of the sixth round. Six survey cover the period May 2020–January 2021 during the pandemic and prior to the military coup, and one covers February 2022, one year after the military takeover on 1 February 2021. Annex one and Annex two provides more details of the survey implementation and respondent profile.
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title Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
title_short Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
title_full Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
title_fullStr Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
title_full_unstemmed Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
title_sort progress, setbacks, and uncertainty : effects of covid-19 and coup on poverty in myanmar
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