American policy journal authors analyze Covid-19, future shocks (New Age Business) 

New Age Business features a seminar on October 17-18 in Kathmandu, Nepal, which focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on specific value chains in Bangladesh and India and the rise in food insecurity and seasonal poverty in South Asian countries. The editors and authors of a special issue of the Applied Economics Perspectives and Policy, the policy journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, titled – ‘Covid-19 in South Asia: Lessons from a time of upheaval’ attended the seminar. 
Remarking on the journal’s special issue, Shahidur Rashid, director, IFPRI-South Asia Regional Office, said, ‘In bringing together this issue, the editors hope to anchor the large body of scholarship and the lessons learned from this crisis to offer concrete recommendations to mitigate the pandemic impact in the region and for similar shocks going forward.’