the gap during and post-pandemic …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … in reducing poverty in recent decades, but the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to … significant role in mitigating the increase in poverty during the pandemic …

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i … economic fallout of the pandemic …

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … potential scarring effect of the pandemic, policies should be deployed to reduce rapidly the number of children affected by …

The COVID-19 pandemic had posed a dramatic impact on labor markets across Europe. Forceful fiscal responses have … those schemes in stabilizing household income during the pandemic across European countries. Empirical evidence shows that … market income shocks—almost doubling the extent of the automatic stabilization of the pre-pandemic tax and benefit systems …

Many countries have deployed substantial fiscal packages to cushion the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. A … advanced economies. These results suggest that large-scale fiscal support deployed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic could …

Many countries have deployed substantial fiscal packages to cushion the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. A … advanced economies. These results suggest that large-scale fiscal support deployed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic could …

, when pandemic-specific factors played a key role above and beyond demand. Prediction errors from a multilateral import … demand model in 2020 vary systematically with the health preparedness of trade partners, suggesting that pandemic … spillovers accounted for up to 60 percent of the observed decline in trade in the early phase of the pandemic, but their effect …