The online panel discussion explored the economic impacts and longer-term implications of the pandemic in low- and middle-income countries, along with insights that could help governments and non-governmental organizations protect individuals and households from falling deeper into poverty.

Economics professor Ted Miguel, faculty co-director at CEGA, shared the results of weekly phone surveys his research team is conducting in rural Western Kenya. The calls are some of the most rigorous evidence available in the region on the spread of COVID-19 and its economic fallout.