Tackling Poverty amidst COVID-19: How Pakistan’s Emergency Cash Programme Averted an Economic Catastrophe

Author(s)
Nishtar S.
Publication language
English
Pages
3pp
Date published
01 Mar 2021
Publisher
International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth
Type
Articles
Keywords
Cash-based transfers (CBT), COVID-19
Countries
Pakistan

In March 2020, as Pakistan came to terms with the scale and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, the government swiftly implemented a nationwide lockdown to control the outbreak. Lasting over two months, the resulting financial and social disruption was significant.