 The Impact of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in the Comoros: The Experience of a Small Island Developing StateOlive Nsababera,
Vibhuti Mendiratta and
Hannah Sam
Chapter Chapter 7 in The Coronavirus Pandemic and Inequality, 2023, pp 141-195 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract This chapter investigates the impact of COVID-19 on the Comoros’s household welfare, poverty, and labor market outcomes. The lockdown policy coincided with data collection for the 2020 Harmonized Survey on Living Conditions of Households, lending itself to a quasi-natural experiment in which households that were interviewed before the lockdown fall into the control group, while those that were interviewed after the lockdown fall into the treated group. The chapter uses matching techniques and finds a reduction in household expenditure, increased poverty, and lower likelihood of employment. Impacts are larger at the top of the distribution suggesting COVID-19 may have reduced inequality, although the poor were also negatively affected. Additionally, the ability of households to use assets as a coping mechanism was limited. In a context of limited safety nets and government interventions, stringent lockdown policies appear to increase the vulnerability of the existing poor and push others into poverty. Date: 2023 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:gpochp:978-3-031-22219-1_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22219-1_7 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution from Palgrave Macmillan |
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