Covid 19: Ramifications for progress towards the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Nigeria

O’Raye Dicta Ogisi and Toritseju Begho

International Review of Applied Economics, 2021, vol. 35, issue 2, 256-268

Abstract: This paper examines whether the impact of COVID-19 at the household level is an obstacle to achieving the sustainable development goals of no poverty (SDG1), zero hunger (SDG2), good health and wellbeing (SDG3) and decent work and economic growth (SDG8). We limit our investigation to farm households given their precarious situation. We analyse data from the World Bank National Longitudinal Phone Survey (COVID-19 NLPS) and the 2018/2019 General Household Survey (GHS). An exact McNemar’s test determined that there was a statistically significant difference in the proportion of households that skipped a meal (p =.002), ran out of food (p =.036) or went a whole day without food (p

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1080/02692171.2020.1864302

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