The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the poor: Insights from the Hrishipara diaries.

ABSTRACT: We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the poor in a semi-rural setting in Bangladesh. We use an unusually rich dataset which tracks the economic and financial transactions of sixty poor and very poor individuals and their families on a daily real-time basis for 12 months, from 1 October 2019 to 30 September 2020. These households for the past five years have volunteered as respondents in a 'financial diaries' study known as the 'Hrishipara Daily Diaries Project'. We use a mixed methods approach, combining qualitative case studies of five diarists with a quantitative analysis of the daily data extracted from the diaries. We document the behavioral responses to COVID-19 by individual diarists, which shows the varied experiences of the poor during the pan

SUBMITTER: Ronkko R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8528469 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature