Define Failed State. “Common characteristics of failed states include ongoing civil violence, corruption, crime, poverty, illiteracy, and crumbling infrastructure,” suggests Robert Longley.
“Women and children are expected to bear the heaviest brunt of the combined impact of COVID-19 and the political crisis. The effects of COVID-19, amplified by the effects of the overthrow of the civilian government, are likely to lead to a disproportionate increase in urban poverty,” says a UNDP Poverty Impact on Myanmar report.
“This is related to the fact that urban areas, where most of the income-generating activities of the near poor are, have been ground zero for the pandemic and the focus of the most severe crackdowns,” continues the report.