The Socio-economic Implications of COVID-19: A Mini Systematic Review Abdella Kosa Chebo 1 Tadesse Weyuma Bulto 2 and Asnake Gudisa Ede 1. Department of Management, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Email: abdikosa@gmail.com or abdela.kossa@kmu.edu.et 2. Department of Environmental Management, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. E-mail: tadesseweyuma@kmu.edu.et or weyuma.tadesse@gmail.com 2. Department of Environmental Management, Kotebe Metropolitan University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. E-mail: astuasnegude@gmail.com Abstract The impact of SARS-CoV-2 virus is multidimensional and significantly affected the socio-economic dimensions of the world community. This paper is aimed to systematically review the socio- economic aspects of COVID-19. From the review, a cyclical model that reveals and integrates the varieties of social and economic factors was developed. It revealed that the strict lockdown measures has contributed for reducing the spread of virus, while it extremely affects the socio- economic dimensions. Further, the factors such as economic unemployment, household’s income, financial markets, and psychological distress has been identified and discussed. Finally, the future research investigation should also give consideration to the forgotten aspects such as technological and politico-legal issues to build an integrated framework of COVID-19. Keywords: COVID-19; Socio-economic; Systematic; Cyclical, Lockdown 1. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is receiving intensive interest at all levels: political, economic, social, scientific, and in health care (Matias et al., 2020). Besides medical and technological challenges, societal, economic, psychological, and philosophical difficulties should be addressed in order to better approach the global crises (Rudnick, 2020). That is, the impact of this pandemic is not limited to the health crisis, but also with societal and economic crisis. There are a lot of socio- economic crises that affects the human behavior (You et al., 2020). This is related with key important indices such as age, sex, ethnicity, education, socio-economic status, and geographic location is particularly pertinent (Yaya et al., 2020). For instance, the socio-economic status (SES) indicated by income, education or occupation plays an important role in health outcomes (Yaya et al., 2020). Besides, the socio-cultural activities are restricted and the economy of countries has extremely impacted in the sectors such as tourism, trade, and transportation (Zeren & Hizarci,