2.1 Socioeconomic effects in South Asia
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 22/11/2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to one of the worst global economic crises in recent times. As businesses have been suffering, unemployment is on the rise with millions of people struggling to remain their livelihoods. This session aims to bring together leading researchers from South Asia to discuss the effects of the pandemic on lives and livelihoods in their own countries, the policy responses and how effective have they been, and how COVID-19 will transform the economies, states and societies of the South Asian region.

The session is chaired by Selim Raihan, with presentations from Ganga Tilakaratna, Puspa Sharma, Prabir De and Vaqar Ahmed.

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