Publication: The Firm-Level Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Summary of Results from Round 4
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2020-10-28
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2020-11-05
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The economic impact of the second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Myanmar has been significantly more severe on businesses than the first wave, according to the World Bank’s firm-level survey. The latest survey, the fourth in a series of eight surveys planned, was administered between September 11, 2020 and October 1, 2020, and covered a nationally representative sample of five hundred firms. The fourth round of the survey overlaps with the beginning of the second-wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and re-introduction of stay-at-home orders that started initially in Rakhine in late August and then in Yangon in early September. This note provides a snapshot of how the firms' outcomes and response to the pandemic have changed between the months of September and October 2020.
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“World Bank. 2020. The Firm-Level Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Summary of Results from Round 4. Myanmar COVID-19 Monitoring;No. 7. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34744 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”
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