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COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in early 2020, Myanmar avoided an early wave of infections. However, even before its first cases were confirmed, the country faced a related economic crisis.
Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 and political instability in Myanmar
COVID-19-related trade disruptions hit several sectors in Myanmar as early as January 2020, but it was the appearance of the country’s first cases in March 2020 and the subsequent lockdown in April that really hurt the economy.
Beyond emergency relief: What will it take to ensure a resilient recovery for agriculture and the rural economy of Myanmar
The recent history of rural economic transformation in Myanmar and the effects of COVID-19 and the military coup in February 2021 provide important lessons for the design and implementation of plans to help the country recover from these scourges.
Livelihoods, poverty, and food insecurity in Myanmar: Survey evidence from June 2020 to December 2021
Ten rounds of the Rural-Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) have been conducted between June 2020 and December 2021 to assess the impacts of Myanmar’s economic, political, and health crises on various dimensions of household welfare.
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: The rising costs of healthy diets - December 2021 survey round
This Research Note presents the results from ten rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in rural and urban zones throughout Myanmar and focuses on the results from the latest round completed in December 2021.
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Food vendors - December 2021 survey round
This Research Note presents the results from a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in rural and urban zones throughout Myanmar and focuses on the results from the latest round completed in December 2021.
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Rice millers – November 2021 survey round
Rice mills are the primary link in the rice value chain between farmers and consumers. Therefore, it is critical to monitor milling shocks as they will affect both farmers' incomes and urban rice prices.
Food prices, processing, and shocks: Evidence from rice and COVID-19
Rice is the staple food for about half of the world's population and mills are the essential processing link between farmers and consumers, making rice milling one of the most important agro-processing sectors globally.
Myanmar migration in a time of transformation: 2011-2020 [in Burmese]
Rural out-migration to both domestic and international destinations counts among the key phenomena that defined a decade of transformation in Myanmar from the 2011 economic reforms until the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.