OPPORTUNITY COST OF COVID-19 BUDGET REALLOCATIONS: ETHIOPIA

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10 Mar

Written By Centre for Disaster Protection

This brief forms part of a cross-country study on the opportunity cost of reallocating budgets in response to disasters. The study, which this brief is based on, seeks to identify and quantify the opportunity costs associated with diverting funding from planned budgeted activities in Ethiopia, using the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to analyse public expenditure decisions, with a focus on what was not spent as a result of the pandemic.

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