Collaboration: Institute of Development Studies / FCDO
Starting date: December 1, 2022
Completion date: September 30, 2023

Project description:

The main objective of the proposed research is to inform policy by providing a comprehensive understanding of the secondary impacts of the pandemic and subsequent lockdown policies on multidimensional poverty and vulnerability. To achieve this objective, we propose carrying out a nationwide field survey over September 2022 – January 2023, using SANEM 2018 nationally representative household survey as a baseline. This will allow us to construct a household panel from the new data, the 2018 data, and data from a 2020 nationwide phone survey on COVID-19 (collected by SR and MU). Our evidence will be based on analysis of this longitudinal dataset, and the dataset will be made publicly available at the end of the project. To our knowledge, there are no studies using nationwide panel data that cover the periods before and after the onset of the pandemic in Bangladesh. The proposed study will fill this gap and provide a body of evidence for effective policy design.

Theme: Poverty and Inequality

Team leader:
Prof. David Fielding, Professor of Development Economics, GDI

Co-Team leader:
Dr Selim Raihan, Professor Department of Economics, University of Dhaka and Executive Director of the South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM)

Team members:
Dr Katsushi Imai, Reader in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Manchester and a Faculty Associate at GDI
Dr Upasak Das, Presidential Fellow in the Economics of Poverty Reduction, GDI
Mr Mahtab Uddin, Ph. Researcher, GDI and Lecturer, University of Dhaka, and Research Fellow, SANEM