poverty and material well-being during the crisis, and links these outcomes with the responses by governments. The analysis … children at the time when unemployment soared. In contrast, countries with more comprehensive social protection cushioned the … impact of the crisis on households with children, especially if they had implemented fiscal stimulus packages at the onset of …

evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving … northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we …