cover image: The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Employment in Middle-order Cities of Nepal

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The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Employment in Middle-order Cities of Nepal

21 Apr 2021

The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Employment in Middle-order Cities of Nepal: A Rapid Assessment © 2021 The Asia Foundation Cover image: The Asia Foundation The Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Employment in Middle-order Cities of Nepal A Rapid Assessment April 2021 Introduction This paper presents a rapid assessment of the scale and depth of pandemic-related job losses in middle-order citi. [...] What the national numbers on job losses don’t reveal very readily are the underlying variations in the intensity of the impact in the urban versus the rural areas. [...] The two geographical clusters combine the manufacturing-heavy economy of the industrial corridor in the East with agriculture-heavy economy of the Dang Valley in the West. [...] Since the survey was conducted in the late October or roughly four weeks after the lifting of the lockdown, these figures could represent the surge in sales in the immediate month after the lockdown was lifted. [...] The faster the government is able to transfer its cash into the hands of the people and businesses, the faster will be the pace of recovery.

Authors

Sagar Prasai

Pages
13
Published in
United States of America

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