Impacts of Covid-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia

Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; Lahga, Abdel Rahmen El; Mendiratta, Vibhuti

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3755395

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“…The reason behind the screen was due to, as postulated on the above total sampled households 81.67% and 35.83% of their income were emanated from self-employee and non-formal (daily labor) wage, therefore as they did not work as usual or takes more leisure time their level of income was decreased. This finding is similar with [6,27]…”

Section: Leisure Timesupporting

confidence: 88%

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effect of Covid-19 on households welfare in Afar Regional State, Ethiopia

Asfaw

Ali

2022

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The main objective of this study was to analyze the effect of COVID-19 on social welfare in the case of Afar regional, state, Ethiopia using panel data collected from a sample of 384 in Asyaita, Dubti Samara-Logia, and Awash town. Both descriptive statistics and econometric models were used to analyze the data. The descriptive analysis results revealed that the main source of income emanated from self-employment (81.67%), from the total households 70% of them were engaged in the service sector, due to COVID-19 the income trends of 81% of households decreased, increase expenditure on food & food items (13%) and service delivering (15%). After conducting necessary pre and post-estimation tests, the econometric model found that the three basic policy variables (number of COVID-19 victims, number of days with the COVID-19 disease and transportation ban) adversely affected the welfare of the society by lessening the income of households and growing their expenditures. Finally, considering regional experience, econometric and descriptive results, this study recommends that the government and the concerned policy maker should give more attention and subsidize the service sector, support those self-employee and daily laborers, make awareness to the society about COVID-19 epidemic, place an alternative mechanism to fill potential trade gaps.

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Section: Leisure Timesupporting

confidence: 88%

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Effect of Covid-19 on households welfare in Afar Regional State, Ethiopia

Asfaw

Ali

2022

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“…It can be seen that GDP in several OIC member countries has decreased except for Egypt, which has increased from $303 billion to $363 billion, and Bahrain, for which GDP data is not yet known in 2020. Although tourism data (TA) at the World Bank in 2020 has not yet been published, it can be predicted that the decline in GDP in several OIC member countries is caused by a decrease in the number of tourists visiting Indonesia (Utami & Kafabih, 2021), Malaysia (Hamid et al, 2021), Albania (Burlea-Schiopoiu & Ozuni, 2021;Lazimi, 2021), Azerbaijan (Hajiyeva, 2021), Jordan (FAFO, 2021;Jordan Strategy Forum, 2021), Moroko (Cherkaoui et al, 2020), Maldives (Adam et al, 2020;UNDP, 2020), Sudan (Abbas et al, 2021East African Community, 2021), Tunisia (Kokas et al, 2021;Mansour & Salem, 2020) and Turki (Karadas, 2020;Kervankıran & Bağmancı, 2021). Although Egypt's GDP did not decline like other selected OIC member countries (chart 1), the Covid-19 pandemic also had a significant impact on the tourism sector in Egypt (Breisinger et al, 2020;Hamdy Ayad et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

Short-Term and Long-Term Causality of the Tourism Sector on Economic Growth of OIC Member Countries

Citaningati

Rahman

Rusgianto

et al. 2023

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Tourism is one of the sectors affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, due to the implementation of lockdowns and social distancing in various countries around the world. Likewise with the countries that are members of the OIC. The pandemic that has hit since the end of 2019 has reduced the number of domestic and foreign tourists traveling to various tourist attractions, both domestically and abroad. This of course has an impact on slower economic growth. Therefore, using the variables of the tourism sector, inflation, foreign direct investment, and economic growth, this study aims to explain the causality of the Covid-19 pandemic on the tourism sector and the economic growth of OIC member countries. This study uses the P-VECM analysis technique to determine the short-term and long-term effects of the variables used. The results of this study reveal that the tourism sector, inflation, and foreign direct investment have short-term and long-term effects on economic growth.

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“…The discussion in this section highlights the criticality of local governments in managing COVID-19 through IMR. However, there is a dearth of pandemic-related data that can help us assess the effectiveness of local governments’ response to COVID-19 ( Park et al, 2020 , Abay et al, 2021 , Swinnen and Vos, 2021 , Kokas et al, 2020 ). Hence, we leverage the disaster and risk mitigation and crisis communication literature to investigate whether information management may act as a fulcrum of the local government response to COVID-19.…”

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confidence: 99%