One year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the poor across Bangladesh are still struggling with their livelihoods and facing emerging vulnerabilities, like mounting debt and dwindling savings. Specially, the situation of the urban slum dwellers is dire. Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) jointly conducted a national three-phase rapid telephonic survey between April 2020 and March 2021 to capture the changing poverty impact of the Covid-19 health and economic crisis on low-income communities. According to the findings from the third phase survey titled ‘Poverty Dynamics and Household Realities’, with a sample of 6,099 households, per capita income in urban slums is still 14% below pre-Covid levels.
One year into the Covid-19 pandemic, the poor across Bangladesh are still struggling with their livelihoods and facing emerging vulnerabilities, like mounting debt and dwindling savings. Specially, the situation of the urban slum dwellers is dire. Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC) and BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) jointly conducted a national three-phase rapid telephonic survey between April 2020 and March 2021 to capture the changing poverty impact of the Covid-19 health and economic crisis on low-income communities. According to the findings from the third phase survey titled ‘Poverty Dynamics and Household Realities’, with a sample of 6,099 households, per capita income in urban slums is still 14% below pre-Covid levels.
