Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused greater challenge for the investors and policymakers to mitigate the consequences of this pandemic. Through a review of the literature on the economics of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, this study explores the effects of the pandemic on the entrepreneurship taking in to account the gross domestic product, employment, and inflation (consumer price index) of Ethiopia during the first years of the pandemic. The review reveals that adverse economic effects have been observed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to fatalities. The pandemic has influenced in a negative way the country’s economy by reducing the GDP growth which has been recorded as one of the fastest economies for the last decade. The partial shutdown taken by the government as a response of the pandemic has led million lose their work increasing the unemployment rate and thus triggering inflation on consumers goods.

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