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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Nguyen‐Anh, Tuan
• Leu, Shawn
• Nguyen‐Thi‐Phuong, Anh
• Ngo‐Dang, Thanh
• To‐The, Nguyen

Titel

Adapting to the new normal: A sustainable livelihood framework for the informal sectors during COVID‐19

Ist Teil von

• Review of development economics, 2023-05, Vol.27 (2), p.1092-1112

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The extraordinary COVID‐19 outbreak has heightened the existential dangers to the informal sector. This study explores the informal sector's tactics in Vietnam for mitigating the pandemic's effects and better adapting to the new normal. Using a sustainable livelihood approach (SLA) and multivariate model for ordered choices (MVOC) to conduct surveys on 513 subjects from the informal labor, our findings indicate that financial management is the most prevalent technique for mitigating the effects of COVID‐19. Notably, the perception of the COVID‐19 pandemic's impact on income and health is crucial to the adoption of mitigation efforts. The Vietnamese government, State Bank, and financial institutions should provide more help to the informal sector, particularly those operating in remote locations so that they can increase their resilience through mitigating measures. In parallel, the informal sector should participate in more deliberate forward mitigation planning in the anticipation of inevitable future shocks.