Progress, Setbacks, and Uncertainty : Effects of COVID-19 and Coup on Poverty in Myanmar
This poverty synthesis notes documents Myanmar’s poverty reduction progress leading to the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty Assess...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099450007082232463/P1770020f407030d80aa36009c7d6519b67 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37699 |
| Summary: | This poverty synthesis notes
documents Myanmar’s poverty reduction progress leading to
the COVID-19 crisis, and setback to these gains brought
about by the COVID-19 pandemic and coup. The note aims to
extract lessons from the Myanmar Poverty Assessment and the
World Bank High-Frequency Phone Surveys. Analysis of welfare
trends and drivers of poverty changes draws from the Poverty
Assessment and covers the period 2005–2017, in line with
existing national household surveys. Analysis of COVID-19
and 2021 military coup effects relies on the World Bank
High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) conducted between March
2020 and February 2022. Starting May 2020, seven rounds of
the phone survey data have been collected, each with
national coverage consisting of a sample of 1,500
households, with the exception of the sixth round. Six
survey cover the period May 2020–January 2021 during the
pandemic and prior to the military coup, and one covers
February 2022, one year after the military takeover on 1
February 2021. Annex one and Annex two provides more details
of the survey implementation and respondent profile. |
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