Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Vulnerable Populations in Bangladesh

Abstract

COVID-19 has affected all classes of people over the world in many ways. In major cases, the impact of COVID-19 on vulnerable group of people is overlooked though they are the major part of the society. Thus, this paper aims at investigating the impacts of COVID-19 on vulnerable people in Bangladesh intensively. Using literature review and case studies, this paper finds some interesting findings. The daily income of poor classes of people like day laborers, Rickshaw pullers, transport workers and so on reduced by 64.37 percent during COVID-19 situation. On the other hand, about 3.7 million new poor emerged amid this pandemic. Amid this pandemic, about 50 percent of women-led enterprises are laying off 76-100 percent of their workers while about 2.14 million garment workers were laid off. More effective policies should be taken to tackle the adverse impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable populations than what is already taken by the government and NGOs.

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