Research Post June 25, 2020 COVID-19 lockdown measures and falling remittances lead to economic pain in Myanmar Xinshen Diao Michael Wang A analysis shows a 41% decline in GDP during the two-week lockdown.

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: International Rescue Committee An IRC survey found Ebola-hit communities are facing deteriorating mental health, reduced access to healthcare, increased violence against women and girls and major income losses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused great disruptions to the agricultural economies of Southeast Asia, and severely impacted countless livelihoods of the more than 600 million people living in the ten countries that make up the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Sectors of the economy focused on food and agriculture […]

Jun 24, 2020 – 03:00 pm to 05:30 pm EAT Africa East Africa Ethiopia Webinar COVID-19 Food Systems Food Security Markets Trade Improving evidence for better policy making in Ethiopia’s livestock sector In collaboration with the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab (LSIL), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has been […]

The world’s war zones often look like apocalyptic scenes, with shattered mounds of toxic rubble stretching for kilometers in what were once cosmopolitan Mediterranean destinations, or thriving and culturally important cities. The cost of the damage is astonishing in terms of lives lost and families destroyed, decimated economies and displaced […]