The Extent of COVID-19 Pandemic Socio-Economic Impact on Global Poverty. A Global Integrative Multidisciplinary Review

TLDR

COVID‑19 has imposed severe socio‑economic and livelihood challenges on poor communities worldwide. The study aims to analyze how the pandemic’s socio‑economic impact harms the poor and to identify future programmatic directions for them during lockdowns. The authors performed an integrative literature review of the pandemic’s economic consequences on poor communities across four continents. The review shows that lockdowns severely hinder the poor’s ability to comply, and recommends immediate strategies to mitigate these effects.

Abstract

The outbreak of COVID 19 made many poor communities in different places of the world face very challenging socio-economic and livelihood consequences. This paper targets to analyse this socio-economic impact to determine how the pandemic is causing various problems to the impoverished. An integrative literature review was carried out to sample the consequences of the global pandemic economic crisis on the poor communities in four different continents. The research points out how it is hard on the poor to adhere to the restrictive measures of social isolation or the lockdown. Immediate strategies that minimize the pandemic impact on the livelihood and the socio-economic activities of the poor are suggested. The research opens future research about more specialised programs for the poor during any future lockdowns.