The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data

Janssens, Wendy; Pradhan, Menno; de Groot, Richard; Sidze, Estelle; Pythagore Pierre Donfouet, Hermann; Alemu Abajobir, Amanuel

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105280

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The short-term economic effects of COVID-19 on low-income households in rural Kenya: An analysis using weekly financial household data

Published in World Development • Nov 25, 2020

Authors:

Wendy Janssens

Menno Pradhan

Richard de Groot

Abstract

This research assesses how low-income households in rural Kenya coped with the immediate economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It uses granular financial data from weekly household interviews covering six weeks before the first case was detected in Kenya to five weeks after during which va...

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Livelihood

Economics

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