Covid-19 pandemic and food security in India: Can authorities alleviate the disproportionate burden on the disadvantaged?

Recreation and social obligations during Covid in India: Does social distancing act as a barrier?

“…Due to low income, most of their spending is mostly on necessities such as food, which explains the result. Our results are consistent with the recent literature on determinants of food security in the context of the COVID‐19 pandemic in India (see Kaicker et al, 2022 for a detailed exposition).…”

“…In Equation ( 1), the cumulative COVID-19 cases in a state are positively associated with the household per capita expenditure, and negatively associated with its square, implying rising intensity of COVID-19 with affluence. The negative coefficient of household per capita income in Equation ( 2) suggests that as the monthly per-capita expenditure (MPCE) of households increase, they spend less on food, but at a diminishing rate, pointing towards quadratic food Engel curves (Kaicker et al, 2022). In Equation (3), the positive coefficient of the monthly per capita expenditures denotes the direct relationship between household expenditure levels and their expenditure on socialising.…”

Food insecurity and its contributing determinants among rural households in the south-western region of Bangladesh, 2021: A cross-sectional study

“…This COVID-19 pandemic played a major blow to jeopardizing the food security situation by disrupting the local supply chains and affecting the availability and affordability of food items in rural households in Bangladesh [ 27 ]. In fact, the ratification of food security conditions is equally applicable to our neighboring countries and nations [ 32 , 33 ]. Several studies conducted in India, a contagious border to Bangladesh, demonstrated the unprecedented challenge in food security amid COVID-19 [ 33 ].…”

Covid-19 in Central America: Firm resilience and policy responses on employment

“…Our paper contributes to the discussions on the role that government policy plays in mitigating the economic adverse effects of the Covid-19 - usually felt more strongly among the most disadvantaged (e.g., Arbolino & Di Caro, 2021 ; Kaicker et al 2022 ). Namely, we investigate how firm-level resilience capabilities interact with government support in the reduction of lay-offs among formal firms in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.…”