The Challenges of Inequality and COVID-19 for Young People in Peru

Evidence from the Listening to Young Lives at Work COVID-19 Phone Survey

• From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
• Published: 5 August 2021

• Country: Peru
• Document Type: Briefing
• Theme: Economic Growth
• Authors: Ford, K, Cueto, S, Sanchez, A

Abstract

“This policy brief looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of adolescents and young people in Peru as they transition into adulthood, focusing on how widening inequalities are hitting those from disadvantaged backgrounds hardest. Peru continues to suffer one of the highest per capita COVID-19 death rates in the world, despite an initial strict national lockdown between March and June 2020, and subsequent regional lockdowns between July and September 2020. A second set of regional lockdowns, and new related restrictions, have been introduced since January 2021, in response to an even more devastating second wave of infections.”

This is an output of the Young Lives at Work programme

Citation

Kath Ford, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez (2021) The Challenges of Inequality and COVID_19 for Young People in Peru: Evidence from the Listening to Young Lives at Work COVId-19 Phone Survey. Young Lives Policy Brief 50

Link

The Challenges of Inequality and COVID-19 for Young People in Peru: Evidence from the Listening to Young Lives at Work COVID-19 Phone Survey

Published 5 August 2021