Results & Analysis

This page highlights results and analysis on the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 in low- and lower-middle-income countries. We also feature selected articles on ensuring this evidence is used to improve the pandemic response and recovery. For a full list of studies with results, go here. To update an existing hub listing with results, contact us.

Event RECOVR Webinar Series: Bringing Evidence to COVID-19 Policy Responses in the Global South With our partners, IPA is hosting the RECOVR Webinar Series: Bringing Evidence to COVID-19 Policy Responses in the Global South. In this series, we are sharing new research findings and policy...	Blog A Phone Survey without Phones? Lessons in How to Reach Those without Access to Mobile Phones. IPA has been working with A2i, a branch of the Bangladesh government which helps to ensure access to public services, to help monitor the digitization process of government social support...	RECOVR Study State Engagement with Religious Leaders for Effective COVID-19 Crisis Response The goal of this study is to test whether outreach with religious leaders in Pakistan can enhance state effectiveness at dealing with the COVID-19 public health crisis. State interactions with...
Blog Tracking Colombians’ Experiences with COVID-19: Households Face Mounting Challenges as Virus Endures As Colombia continues to battle the coronavirus pandemic, it must—like many countries—address the twin concerns of protecting its population’s health and reactivating its hard-hit economy. The...	Publication Key Decisions for COVID-19 Social Protection in Low- and Middle-Income Countries The expansion of social protection programs has an important role to play in pandemic response. Cash transfers are an especially promising avenue, as they are effective at improving a number of...	Event Evidence to Impact in Crisis: How Have We Measured Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic? This event, co-hosted by the Center for Global Development (CGD) and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), explored questions about what good partnerships between researchers and policymakers look...
Blog RECOVR Roundup Vol. 10: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19 In this tenth installment of our RECOVR Roundup series, we are sharing new findings and analysis from the RECOVR Research Hub and from our partner organizations, as well as links on what is...	Study Using Mobile Phone and Satellite Data to Target Emergency Cash Transfers in Togo Since March 2020, a team of researchers¹...	Publication Keeping Children Engaged in Distance Learning in the Philippines: Key Findings from the RECOVR Survey To support government partners’ initiatives in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, IPA launched the Research for Effective COVID-19 Responses (RECOVR) Survey, a rapid response panel survey it has...
RECOVR Study COVID-19 Rural Household Survey in Gaibandha, Bangladesh Using data collected through a telephone-based survey in rural Bangladesh during the height of the pandemic, the researchers present evidence on the effects of COVID-19-led lockdown and school...	Event RECOVR Webinar Series \| The Impact of Cash Transfers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa This webinar shared findings from three evaluations that assess the impacts of cash transfers on recipients’ socioeconomic well-being in Kenya, Uganda, Liberia, and Malawi within the context of...	Publication The Impact of Emergency Cash Assistance in a Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Colombia Researchers study the impact of money on households during the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, Colombia rolled out a new unconditional cash transfer (UCT) to one million households in poverty...
Event RECOVR Webinar Series \| COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Global South \| The Syrian Refugee Crisis: A View from Jordan On December 7, IPA, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and the Joint Data Center on Forced Displacement (JDC) held the second webinar in a mini-series focused on the impacts of COVID-...	Blog Citizen Security and Policing Amidst COVID-19 in Mexico To examine how COVID-19 has affected citizen perceptions and the challenges faced by the police, we conducted two complementary studies. The first, focused on public perceptions, was part of our...	RECOVR Study Accelerating Changes in Norms about Social Distancing to Combat COVID-19 in Mozambique Social distancing is one of the most important health behaviors limiting the spread of COVID‐19, but people may practice it insufficiently for multiple reasons: they may not believe or realize...
Publication The Effects of COVID-19 on Business and Employment in Ghana Business and employment around the world are being severely impacted by COVID-19, as 345 million full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs have been lost worldwide in the third quarter of 2020 alone and 45-...	Blog Zambia RECOVR Survey Results and Policy Priorities: Identifying Evidence-Based Social Protection Strategies for an Inclusive and Equitable Recovery In a survey of residents in Zambia, IPA found that educational continuity, economic well-being, and food security are critical issues amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Policymakers must contend with...	RECOVR Study COVID-19 Economic Vulnerability Phone Survey in Myanmar (Community Focus) The Feed the Future Myanmar Agriculture Policy Support Activity (MAPSA) is a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded activity, led by the International Food Policy...
Publication Cash Transfers in the Philippines: Empowering Households for Economic Recovery Amidst the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the emerging economic recovery, cash transfers can provide timely lifelines and economic assistance to households in need. The Philippines...	Blog Studying Universal Basic Income During COVID-19: A Behind-the-Scenes Look IPA was working on a randomized controlled trial of Universal Basic income with GiveDirectly and Professors Tavneet Suri, Paul Niehaus, Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Faye, and the late Alan Krueger,...	Blog Giving People Cash During COVID: A Look at What We're Working On At IPA, we have been conducting a series of research projects on the targeted cash transfers and are highlighting recent research on social transfers and other related COVID-19 research on our...
Study COVID-19’s Prevalence Among Rohingya Refugees and Host Communities in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh Forcibly displaced people often live in overcrowded camps in countries with struggling health systems, making this population highly vulnerable to COVID‐19. In the Cox’s Bazar district of...	RECOVR Study The Impact of COVID-19 and Cash Transfers on Market Activity, Livelihoods, and Prices in Rural Markets in Liberia, Malawi, and Rwanda Researchers measured the impacts of the COVID lockdowns on well-being using monthly phone surveys with households as well as with food vendors in local markets. The surveys were implemented as...	RECOVR Study COVID-19 International Small Business Study Micro, small, and medium enterprises are being severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a response to the severe economic implications of this crisis, state and federal governments around...
RECOVR Study The Other Virus: How Gangs and Organized Crime are Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis In the sprawling informal peripheries of cities throughout the developing world, enhancing state capacity may be critical for an effective COVID response, and hence to macro-level public-health,...	Blog Considerations for Doing Intimate Partner Violence Research in the Time of Coronavirus As women around the globe are increasingly quarantined, they are also exposed to increased risk of intimate partner violence (IPV).	Blog Focusing on the Foundations: Education in the Time of COVID-19 A joint statement by the Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, J-PAL, Pratham, Teaching at the Right Level Africa, and Young 1ove.
Blog Policy-Relevant Rigor: What Governments Need From Researchers for Effective Crisis Response IPA is building on existing relationships and responding to dozens of policy partners to ensure that in our case, the answer is “yes.” We are working hard to understand exactly what questions...	Blog Co-creating During a Crisis In the past months, we have worked with decision-makers from 10 different countries where IPA has a permanent presence to develop panel surveys to answer their most pressing questions. The process...	Blog Research During a Pandemic: Leaner and Faster Poverty Measurement in the Time of COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing research projects around the world to move from face-to-face data collection to shorter, phone-based methods using SMS messages or voice calls. As research...

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