Response to Covid-19
COVID-19 has had a catastrophic impact across developed economies, shutting down cities, overloading the health infrastructure, and collapsing the global economy. Its impact on the developing economies is yet to be felt completely, but as horrific as it sounds, COVID-19’s impact in the developing world is likely to be more devastating both in terms of disease burden and economic impact. Most developing countries of the world do not have a robust enough health system and infrastructure to sustain a sudden surge of patients who need respiratory care, nor do they have the state or economic capacity to roll out extensive stimulus packages that could cushion the blow of income shocks to their most vulnerable populations.
Y-RISE in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is working to rapidly generate an evidence-based policy response to help contain the health and economic devastation of COVID-19. A snapshot of our work is provided on this page.
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