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Carlo Azzarri

Carlo Azzarri is a Senior Research Fellow in the Innovation Policy and Scaling Unit. His work focuses on the relationships among poverty, nutrition, food security, agriculture, the environment, production, and migration—analyzed at both micro and macroeconomic levels, primarily using quantitative methods.

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Poverty spikes in Myanmar following second wave of pandemic (Myanmar Times)

November 25, 2020


Myanmar Times reported in an article on the latest IFPRI study, Poverty, food insecurity, and social protection during COVID-19 in Myanmar: Combined evidence from a household telephone survey and micro-simulations. The second wave of COVID – 19 in Myanmar has had a significant impact on incomes, with a rising number of households now living below the poverty line compared to before the pandemic. Senior Research Fellow Derek Headey says, “In January, before COVID-19, only 16pc of respondents were poor. But now the poverty rate is over 60pc. Worryingly, one-third of households surveyed in the second wave of COVID – 19 said they had no income.” The survey found that income losses were more pronounced among urban households due to the higher number of COVID-19 cases in Yangon, stricter prevention measures in cities, greater dependence of urban households on non-farm livelihoods which were more affected by prevention measures and the significant number of mothers in this sample who had recently given birth. 

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