This note assesses the impacts of COVID-19 on the processing sector of Myanmar’s agri-food system.

This policy note presents results from five rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in different rural and urban zones of the country, focusing on results from the last round completed.

This study assesses the welfare impacts of COVID-19 on households in Myanmar by combining recent high-frequency telephone survey evidence for two specific rural and urban geographies with national-level survey-based simulations designed to assess

This policy note provides evidence of the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on farming communities in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone using baseline data from January 2020 (BL) and followup telephone survey data.

It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020).

Myanmar has been fortunate in thus far having one of the lowest caseloads of COVID-19 per population globally, with under 400 confirmed cases as of early August.

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis from which very few countries will be spared.

This policy note provides evidence of the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on farming communities in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone using baseline data from January 2020 and follow-up phone survey data.

The COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar poses a very serious risk to the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, notably women and children, as well as poor urban populations and internally displaced persons.

On 27 April, the Myanmar Government published the COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) which aims to mitigate COVID-19’s impact on the macroeconomic environment and the private sector and to ease the impact on laborers, workers, and households.

ဤစာတမ်းငယ်သည် Covid-19 ကျန်းမာေရး�ှင်စီးပွားေရးအကျပ်အတည်းေ�ကာင ့ ် ြမန်မာ�ိုင်ငံ�ှိ အေသးစား ့ ေငွေရး ေ�ကးေရးအဖွဲ�အစည်းများ ရင်ဆိုင်ေနရေသာ �ကီးမားသည့် စွန်စားရမ�များ၊ ့ အေသးစား ေငွေရးေ�ကးေရးက�ကို �ုတ်တရက် �ိုက်ခတ်လာသည့် ြပင်းထန်ေသာ ထိခိုက်မ�များ၏ ဆ

This note discusses the significant risks facing microfinance institutions (MFI) in Myanmar in the wake of the COVID-19 health and economic crisis and the implications for poverty and food insecurity of a serious negative shock to the MFI sector.

There is an urgent need to anticipate and mitigate the threat posed by COVID-19 to Myanmar’s agricultural sector and to rural households that depend on farming for income and for food and nutrition security.

The recent sudden imposition of a stringent 21-day lockdown in India in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the food security of many vulnerable Indians.