 Honduras: The impact of COVID-19 and preliminary implications: Interim reportDÃaz-Bonilla, Eugenio,
Piñeiro, Valeria and
David Laborde Debucquet
No 17, LAC working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Abstract: Due to the global pandemic generated by the COVID-19 the government of Honduras declared “state of emergency†in Feburay (“Estado de Emergencia en el Territorio Nacional a través del Decreto Ejecutivo Número PCM- 005-2020, 10 de febrero 2020). The country suffered the first confirmed COVID-19 case on March 12th, 2020. The first death was registered on March 26th. This short note covers the following topics until the time of this report. First, it shows the evolution of the pandemic, using different indicators. Second, it summarizes the main policy responses and costs and financing implied. Third, it shows some actual impacts with available data. Fourth, the modeling framework for the simulations is briefly presented. Fifth, it simulates different scenarios for the evolution of the Honduras’ economy until year 2022. A final section discusses some preliminary policy considerations. Subsequent reports will update the information of this document and sharpen de policy conclusions. Keywords: economic impact; policies; covid-19; health; social protection; nutrition; gross national product; social safety nets; pandemics; Honduras; Central America; Latin America (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:fpr:lacwps:17 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in LAC working papers from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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