In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to … population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions …

Using a four-round panel data set from the first phase of the Challenging the Frontiers of Poverty Reduction …

family has a sufficient amount of food, and deteriorated child nutrition. There is also a differential effect between … vulnerable groups that are most likely to benefit from programs designed to provide sufficient nutrition to the population. …

avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …

Food insecurity is one of the most, if not the most, significant, nutrition-related public health issue confronted in … poverty. Many households above the poverty line are food insecure; many below are not. We investigate a lack of financial …

higher levels of poverty. …

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in wellbeing around the world. This paper seeks to quantify … and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … period and by the most conservative definition, over 120 million additional years were spent in poverty because of the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on …