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.

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,...	Event RECOVR Webinar Series \| COVID-19 and Forced Displacement in the Global South On October 20, IPA, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), and the Joint...	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...
Blog RECOVR Roundup Vol. 5: Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19 In this fifth 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...	RECOVR Study RECOVR Mexico: Tracking the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic Tracking how people’s lives are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic can enable policymakers to better understand the situation in their countries and make data-driven policy decisions. To respond to...	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...
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...	Event IPA Presents at Virtual Conference on Social Protection in the Time of COVID-19 On October 5-6, IPA joined a virtual conference hosted by SocialProtection.org on ...	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,...
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...	Blog Using Evidence to Inform Social Policy in the Philippines in the Time of COVID-19: RECOVR Survey Reveals Priorities for Economic Recovery COVID-19’s effects are global, but local contexts characterize the virus’s specific impacts and residents’ concerns. In the Philippines, after surveying local residents, IPA found that food...	Event RECOVR Webinar Series \| Learning from Rapid Data to Inform Policy on COVID-19 in Zambia and Malawi This webinar shared findings from two rapid surveys on the effects of COVID-19 in Zambia and Malawi.
Blog The Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Côte d’Ivoire: Lessons from the RECOVR Survey IPA has developed the RECOVR survey to better understand such realities and to enable data-driven policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In...	Blog Focusing on the Foundations: Education in the Time of COVID-19 A join statement by the Douglas B. Marshall, Jr. Foundation, Innovations for Poverty Action, J-PAL, Pratham, Teaching at the Right Level Africa, and Young 1ove.	RECOVR Study Communication to Promote Healthy Behaviors in Urban Slums in Kenya During COVID-19 Sub-Saharan Africa contains many densely overcrowded and poor urban slums at high risk of COVID-19 outbreaks. In these contexts, sanitation and social distancing measures are near impossible, and...
Blog Realities of Remote Learning: Lessons from Initial Findings of an 8,000-Household Survey in Peru During COVID-19 Most schools throughout Latin America have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the school closures, nearly 8 million Peruvian students, from preschool to high school, are stuck at home....	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...	Event RECOVR Webinar Series \| Early Evidence on COVID-19, Mobility, and Migration On June 11, 2020, IPA and the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation & Scale (Y-RISE) hosted the first webinar in the RECOVR Webinar Series: Bringing Evidence to COVID-19 Policy...
Blog Learning About Digital Benefit Payments in a Pandemic To help mitigate gaps in the current crisis response, IPA is pivoting an existing research project with Bangladesh’s government on digital payments to respond to COVID-19’s challenges.	Publication COVID-19 and the Future of Microfinance: Evidence and Insights from Pakistan The COVID-19 pandemic threatens lives and livelihoods, and, with that, has created immediate challenges for institutions that serve affected communities. We focus on implications for local...	Event Evidence Matters Webinar \| Increasing Handwashing Adherence: Lessons from Rigorous Evidence On May 11, 2020, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) held a webinar titled “Increasing Handwashing Adherence: Lessons from Rigorous Evidence,” which covered evidence from rigorous research on...
RECOVR Study Families under Confinement: COVID-19, Domestic Violence, and Alcohol Consumption Does the COVID-19 stay-at-home order increase domestic violence? The significant decline in household income combined with prolonged confinement with the potential assailant may increase household...	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...	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...
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).	RECOVR Study Showing Life Opportunities: COVID-19 Rapid Response Survey More than 1.5 billion students have to stay at home due to COVID-19 school closures, more than 90 percent of total enrolled learners (UNESCO, 04.01.2020). To ensure learning continuity, students...	RECOVR Study The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Women in the Garment Industry: Evidence from Ethiopia In a globalized world, pandemics transmit impacts through markets. In this study, researchers document employment changes, coping strategies, and welfare of garment factory workers in Ethiopia’s...
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...	Blog What We Can Learn about Epidemic Response from the 2014-15 Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone New findings related to the 2014-15 Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone have implications for health systems in the current COVID-19 crisis.	RECOVR Study COVID-19 Phone Survey in Senegal This survey aims to gather information on a representative sample of 1,000 respondents to understand how they are affected by the COVID-19 crisis, how well they follow mitigation measures, their...

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