ABSTRACT
COVID-19 has left a trail of devastation in its wake, diminishing decades’ worth of development progress far beyond the health sector. The pandemic has exacerbated old vulnerabilities and created new ones, especially with successive lockdowns disrupting the resumption and continuation of socioeconomic activities. The chapter presents a framework to assess COVID-19's impact on a developing country's vulnerable population. In line with this, the chapter finds that policy actions toward recovery and resumption – immediately and over the medium term – need to be informed by genuine and disaggregated evidence based on realities on the ground. The chapter emphasizes the need to have conceptual, analytical, and methodological clarity on the relevant issues. The chapter offers a set of analytical questions to construct the assessment framework, which can be adopted and replicated across national contexts.
