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Facilitating Evidence-Based Policy Making During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Kyrgyz Republic ADB Knowledge & Innovation Talks

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Rajesh Vasudevan, senior economist at the Asian Development Bank describes the four-step approach adopted by his team to (i) assess in real-time anticipated socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kyrgyz Republic, a small landlocked country in Central Asia, and (ii) build an evidence-base to inform the crisis-response measures of the Government and to ensure equitable allocation of COVID-19 response funds that it had started to mobilize from different sources of financing including development partners, starting with the ADB.

Rajesh Vasudevan, senior economist at the Asian Development Bank describes the four-step approach adopted by his team to (i) assess in real-time anticipated socioeconomic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Kyrgyz Republic, a small landlocked country in Central Asia, and (ii) build an evidence-base to inform the crisis-response measures of the Government and to ensure equitable allocation of COVID-19 response funds that it had started to mobilize from different sources of financing including development partners, starting with the ADB.

7 Min.