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COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption()
Federal and state governments in developing countries have tasked local governments with managing COVID-19 on the ground. The bottom-up approach is critical to ensuring household food security, especially in rural areas. We have utilized data from a panel of Indian households that participated in tw...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35638083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102278 |
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description | Federal and state governments in developing countries have tasked local governments with managing COVID-19 on the ground. The bottom-up approach is critical to ensuring household food security, especially in rural areas. We have utilized data from a panel of Indian households that participated in two rounds of a livelihoods survey. While the first round was fielded before COVID-19, the second round was conducted telephonically after the COVID-19-lockdown. We developed an Information Management Response Index (IMRI) to measure the strength of local governments’ information management initiatives. The difference-in-difference estimates show that local governments could partially mitigate the pandemic’s adverse effects on (a) level and distribution (adult-equivalent per-capita) of food and nutrition expenditure and (b) household vulnerability to food and nutrition poverty. For landless households, IMRI led to statistically significant and additional welfare effects. Three channels explain our empirical findings: (a) maintenance of essential commodities through fair-price shops, (b) access to paid employment and cash (income effect), and (c) disease management (substitution effect). The estimates have been adjusted for sample attrition and multiple-hypothesis correction. We conducted robustness checks with respect to index construction, instrumental variable estimation, and sub-group analysis. |
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spelling | pubmed-91328842022-05-26 COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() Pandey, Vivek Singh, Shyam Kumar, Deepak Food Policy Article Federal and state governments in developing countries have tasked local governments with managing COVID-19 on the ground. The bottom-up approach is critical to ensuring household food security, especially in rural areas. We have utilized data from a panel of Indian households that participated in two rounds of a livelihoods survey. While the first round was fielded before COVID-19, the second round was conducted telephonically after the COVID-19-lockdown. We developed an Information Management Response Index (IMRI) to measure the strength of local governments’ information management initiatives. The difference-in-difference estimates show that local governments could partially mitigate the pandemic’s adverse effects on (a) level and distribution (adult-equivalent per-capita) of food and nutrition expenditure and (b) household vulnerability to food and nutrition poverty. For landless households, IMRI led to statistically significant and additional welfare effects. Three channels explain our empirical findings: (a) maintenance of essential commodities through fair-price shops, (b) access to paid employment and cash (income effect), and (c) disease management (substitution effect). The estimates have been adjusted for sample attrition and multiple-hypothesis correction. We conducted robustness checks with respect to index construction, instrumental variable estimation, and sub-group analysis. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-07 2022-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9132884/ /pubmed/35638083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102278 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Pandey, Vivek Singh, Shyam Kumar, Deepak COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
title | COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
title_full | COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
title_fullStr | COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
title_short | COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
title_sort | covid-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption() |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132884/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35638083 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2022.102278 |
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