Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia

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dc.creatorKokas, Deeksha
dc.creatorLopez-Acevedo, Gladys
dc.creatorEl Lahga, Abdel Rahman
dc.creatorMendiratta, Vibhuti
dc.date2021-01-07T15:46:58Z
dc.date2021-01-07T15:46:58Z
dc.date2020-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:39:38Z
dc.descriptionCOVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate access to health insurance, overcrowded living conditions, and low access to water at home are reasons that make the Tunisian poor more susceptible to getting infected or not being able to seek health care in the event that they contract COVID-19. In addition, the elderly in the poorest households could be more susceptible to COVID-19 due to higher prevalence of intergenerational households among the poor. Second, many sectors of the labor market have experienced an economic slowdown, and those employed in these sectors are likely to experience disproportionate effects. Combining the labor shock and price shock simultaneously, the simulations in this paper show an increase in poverty of 7.3 percentage points under a more optimistic scenario and 11.9 percentage points under the pessimistic scenario, and individuals in sectors such as tourism and construction are expected to fall into poverty due to COVID-19. The paper estimates that the government’s compensatory measures targeted toward the hardest hit are expected to mitigate the increase in poverty. Specifically, the increase in poverty will be 6.5 percentage points under the optimistic scenario if mitigation measures are in place vis-à-vis in their absence, when the increase in poverty is 7.3 percentage points.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/529381608228318922/Impacts-of-COVID-19-on-Household-Welfare-in-Tunisia
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34980
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-9503
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/408544
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9503
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectCOVID-19
dc.subjectCORONAVIRUS
dc.subjectLABOR INCOME
dc.subjectCONSUMPTION
dc.subjectPANDEMIC IMPACT
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD WELFARE
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.titleImpacts of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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