Short- and long-term food insecurity and policy responses in pandemics: Panel data evidence from COVID-19 in low- and middle-income countries

Peter Hangoma, Kusum Hachhethu, Silvia Passeri, Ole Frithjof Norheim, Johnathan Rivers and Ottar Mæstad

World Development, 2024, vol. 175, issue C

Abstract: We leverage unique panel household phone survey data collected by the World Food Programme (WFP) several months before and 3 years into the COVID-19 pandemic in nine low-and middle-income countries to examine whether the COVID-19 period was associated with increases in food insecurity. We also combine this data with data from the Oxford COVID-19 response tracker to examine how lockdown policies and economic support policies to households have affected food consumption.

Keywords: Food insecurity; Cash transfers; COVID-19; Low- and middle-income countries; Long-term effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106479

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