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An ex-ante assessment on poverty and cash transfer benefits in Viet Nam under the Covid-19 pandemic
Long Thanh Giang; Kikkawa, Aiko; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2021
poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …-poor and helps bring about 1.2 million people out of poverty. The transfers would be particularly pro-poor for ethnic minority …
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Inequality and support for government responses to COVID-19
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Malesky, Edmund; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2020
Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
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COVID-19 pandemic and the health and well-being of vulnerable people in Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Minh Do - 2022
pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433464
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affect the poor? : evidence from a six-country survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Toan Luu Duc Huynh; Nguyen, Manh-Hung - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414149
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Social safety nets in Tunisia : do benefits reach the poor and vulnerable households at the regional level?
Nasri, Khaled - 2020
disagreement between eligibility criteria and a person's poverty status. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139880
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When Distrust Goes Viral : Causal Effects of COVID-19 on European Political Attitudes
Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea FM; … - 2021
To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before...
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COVID-19 Fatalities and Internal Conflict : Does Government Economic Support Matter?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Gholipour, Hassan F. - 2021
In this study, we look at the association between COVID-19 fatality rate and internal conflict, highlighting the importance of government economic support under the pandemic as a moderating factor. Our main hypothesis implies that increased COVID-19 fatality rates are likely to be positively...
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The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century : what are the patterns, drivers and causes?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Rojas Lozano, Daniel - 2017
In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible underlying causes, including the role of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112403
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Why guarantee employment? : evidence from a large Indian public-works program
Zimmermann, Laura - 2020
Most countries around the world implement some form of a safety net program for poor households. A widespread concern is that such programs crowd out private-sector jobs. But they could also improve workers' welfare by allowing them to take on more risk, for example through self-employment. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012195155
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Spending in social services in China : a multi-country analysis
Bajo Rubio, Oscar; Gómez-Plana, Antonio G. - 2020
In this paper, we simulate the effects of an increase in the levels of public spending in health care and social assistance in the Chinese economy, and examine its global effects, i.e., the effects on the main macroeconomic variables of seven regions of the world economy, namely, China, Japan,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147384