The impact of Covid-19 in South Africa during the first year of the crisis

Evidence from the Nids-CRAM survey

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21540901
AutoresReza Che Daniels (0000-0002-9951-8568, University of Cape Town, autor de correspondencia), Daniela Casale (0000-0003-1337-1196, University of the Witwatersrand)
Año2022
Volumen39
Número5
Páginas605-622
Fecha de publicación2022-09-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDevelopment Southern Africa (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0376-835X • E-ISSN: 1470-3637
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0376835x.2022.2116408
OpenAlexW4293724166
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas11

This paper provides an introduction to this Special Issue of Development Southern Africa that evaluates the impact of COVID-19 in South Africa, one year into the pandemic. All of the papers use evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study – Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey (NIDS-CRAM), a five-wave longitudinal survey conducted from April 2020 to July 2021. As we write this article in June 2022, South Africa has just returned to the same level of GDP that it had at the end of 2019. This two-year period marks one of the most tumultuous in the country’s economic history. We showcase results pertaining to employment, income support, hunger, schooling, early childhood development, mental health, and vaccine hesitancy. We also reflect on the policy learnings that can be gleaned in each of these domains and draw on some of the international lessons learnt to point to the way forward

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Pandemic · Political science · Socioeconomics · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Medicine