Social (in)security – the ambivalence of villagers' perceptions during COVID-19

Kalinowski, Sławomir; Łuczak, Aleksandra

doi:10.31971/pps/145154

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting public health crisis had an enormous impact on the global economy at all scales and in all sectors, with disruptions affecting most types of economic activity [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], including related sectors such as logistics, transport, and energy [13][14][15][16]24]. While tourism and related activities, including food services, were most affected [20][21][22][23][24], agriculture was affected to varying degrees, depending on the scale, type, and nature of production and geographical location .…”

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“…At the level of household income, cross-country evidence suggests that the poorest among the households benefited most from compensatory policy measures, while the disposable income of the best-placed households suffered less from containment measures [4][5][6]. Evidence from Malaysia indicated that households with low incomes were unaffected by pandemic restrictions or even benefited [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

Gherasimescu,

Imbrea,

Imbrea

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting public health crisis had an enormous impact on the global economy and its sectors. Most components were adversely affected, especially the tertiary industry (the part of a country’s economy that provides services), with different types and sizes of businesses suffering to varying degrees. Reports on the impact on agriculture are not lacking, and the crisis was perceived and responded to differently from the supply chain to the household level. The research question proposed in this paper concerns the impact of the early restrictions induced by COVID-19, namely the lockdown period from March to June 2020, on Romanian agriculture and more precisely Western Romanian crop production. Two counties in the West were selected: the county Timis for its highly favourable agricultural production and the county Caras Severin for its integrative agricultural production centred on mixed farms, where crop production is integrated with animal production towards a higher added value. Using secondary data from the National Agency for Payments and Interventions in Agriculture allowed the disaggregation of data at the level of each municipality for 2019 and 2020. The choice of this dataset was related to the level of precision, as the beneficiaries of direct payments in the respective areas are verified each year for both areas and crops. The paired two-tailed t-test was used to test the data for each LAU 2 municipality in each of the selected counties; as the crops sown in 2019 could not be affected by the COVID lockdown period in spring 2020 (March to June), the most important spring crops in terms of area in 2020 were selected and tested against the 2019 datasets. The results show that there is not enough evidence to conclude a significant statistical difference between the two years, and therefore, we cannot reject the null hypothesis and conclude that the pandemic lockdown did not affect the spring crops during their most restrictive period in spring 2020; thus, the overall influence of the COVID-19 lockdown on crop production in Western Romania was insignificant, observed only at the level of primary production. Spring crop production could have been severely affected by the restrictions imposed by the health crisis on access to certain inputs, freedom of movement for field work, and other activities closely linked to agricultural production, leading to early disruptions along the food chain.

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The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

Gherasimescu,

Imbrea,

Imbrea

et al. 2023

Sustainability

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“…Human care during the COVID-19 pandemic imposed a complex set of actions and consequences on social policy (Daly, 2022). Furthermore, several Polish experts underline the impact of COVID-19 on social policy (Bieszk-Stolorz & Markowicz, 2022;Chłon ´-Domin ´czak et al, 2021;Kalinowski & Łuczak, 2021;Łaszek, 2020). Despite the relevance of these scientific works, they do not seek answers to the questions of our study.…”

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Impact of COVID-19 on Social Policy: A Literature Review in the Social and Human Sciences

Nassimov,

Paridinova,

Abikenov

2023

Problemy Polityki Społecznej

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COVID-19 has paralysed many countries' social and economic lives. COVID-19 has pushed the world towards drastic social distancing and sterilisation measures to limit the spread and impact of the infection. However, it remains unclear what the longterm physical, psychological, socio-economic, and political decisions will be and their consequences. Scientists today have a great responsibility to study this period. Therefore, expert data contributes to the individual and collective development of citizens. The analytical method used in this study involved a theoretical analysis of publications on social and human sciences from the Scopus database, mainly focusing on the year 2020, to develop a framework for understanding the societal repercussions of the pandemic. The study defines a wide range of social consequences and effects of COVID-19, shows the impact pandemic on education in the context of social policy, establishes the socio-political and economic consequences of COVID-19, and substantiates psychological reactions to COVID-19. A review of the literature can help determine the impact of COVID-19 on social policy. Based on the analysis of the papers, it can be concluded that COVID-19 has increased inequality, widened the gap between the rich and the poor, and threatened the stability of society in low-income countries.

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“…Some scientists indicate that these result from unproductive behaviour (Bertrand et al 2004), place of residence (Lichter et al 2012, Binder, 2014, Kalinowski 2015, Allard 2017, demographic reasons (Pearce, 1978;Lister 2007, Lewis & Campbell 2008, Cruz & Ahmed 2018, Ku et al 2018, individual disabilities (Sen, 1999, Emerson, 2007, or structural determinants (Brady 2019). An important cause is unfavourable random events (Krishna 2011), including the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been the main cause of poverty in the last two years, having had an extreme impact on the socio-economic situation (Kalinowski & Łuczak, 2021. On the other hand, Brady (2019) put the causes in three theoretical contextsbehavioural theories, structural theories and political theories.…”

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A multidimensional comparative analysis of poverty statuses in European Union countries

Łuczak¹

2022

IJOES

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The main purpose of this paper is to compare the poverty statuses of European Union countries in 2010 and 2018. The specific purpose is to assess levels of poverty and material deprivation for EU countries. The study relied on the positional TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution) approach. With these methods, it is possible to determine the poverty statuses: persistent conspicuous poverty, poverty without serious material deprivation, material deprivation without severe poverty, and no severe poverty. Three types of poverty status were identified in EU countries: persistent conspicuous poverty, transient unnoticeable poverty and no severe poverty. Central and Eastern European countries (especially Romania, Latvia, Bulgaria and Poland) witnessed a clear improvement in their statuses in 2010–2018. A large number of countries had a transient unnoticeable poverty status. In turn, no countries had experienced a clear deterioration their status. Eurostat data provided an empirical basis for this study.

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Social (in)security – the ambivalence of villagers' perceptions during COVID-19

Cited by 7 publications

References 28 publications

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

The Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on West Romanian Crop Production in 2020

Impact of COVID-19 on Social Policy: A Literature Review in the Social and Human Sciences

A multidimensional comparative analysis of poverty statuses in European Union countries

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