This blog post by the Livelihoods and Food Security Fund highlights a new study from the International Food Policy Research Institute that reports evidence from urban Yangon and the rural dry zone and exposes a shocking increase in poverty.
The impacts of COVID-19 on household incomes and poverty in Myanmar
COVID-19 and policy measures to contain the spread of the virus around the world have interrupted global and domestic economic activities and trade flows. In this publication, IFPRI-Myanmar assesses the shocks of COVID-19 on Myanmar livelihoods.