In trying to limit the spread of COVID-19, policymakers are confronting the difficult task of balancing the positive health effects of lockdowns against their economic costs — particularly the burdens imposed on low-income and food-insecure househ
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Using the SAM multiplier model for Egypt, we simulate the individual and combined effects of a collapse in the tourism sector and reductions in Suez Canal revenues and in foreign remittances under more and less pessimistic scenarios.
COVID-19 is disrupting economies and food systems everywhere, but the poor will suffer the greatest risk of food crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic and government lockdown in Myanmar have led to falling exports and lost revenue from tourism and international remittances, hitting the economy hard.
With COVID-19 and its economic fallout now spreading in the poorest parts of the world, many more people will become poor and food-insecure.