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Inequality and Poverty in India : Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Response

Arbatli, Elif C.; Coppo, Mattia; Khalil, Nasser; … - 2023

Using microdata from nationally representative household and labor force surveys, we study the impact and drivers of 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...

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Will Working from Home Stick in Developing Economies?

Conesa Martinez, Marina; Narita, Futoshi; Papageorgiou, … - 2023

In developing economies, a shift to working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic varies substantially. An increase in teleworking days per week ranges from 0.7 to 17.6 percentage points across 10 developing countries covered by an online survey to about 500 respondents per country. An...

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Remittances and Social Safety Nets During Covid-19 : Evidence from Georgia and the Kyrgyz Republic

Abidi, Nordine; Akhbari, Mehdi; Hlayhel, Bashar; Sakha, … - 2023

Remittance flows in emerging market and developing economies were surprisingly resilient during the COVID-19 crisis …

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Euro Area Inflation after the Pandemic and Energy Shock : Import Prices, Profits and Wages

Hansen, Niels-Jakob; Toscani, Frederik; Zhou, Jing - 2023

We document the importance of import prices and domestic profits as a counterpart to the recent increase in euro area inflation. Through a novel consumption deflator decomposition, we show that import prices account for 40 percent of the average change in the consumption deflator over 2022Q1 –...

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COVID-19 and Emerging Markets : An Epidemiological Model with International Production Networks and Capital Flows

Çakmaklı, Cem - 2020

We quantify the macroeconomic effects of COVID-19 for a small open economy by calibrating a SIR-multi-sector-macro model. We measure sectoral supply shocks utilizing teleworking and physical job proximity, and demand shocks with credit card purchases. Both shocks are also affected from changing...

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A Tip Against the COVID-19 Pandemic

Cherif, Reda - 2020

A universal testing and isolation policy is the most viable way to vanquish a pandemic. Its implementation requires: (i) an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing, sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience and speed; and (ii) state intervention to ramp up production,...

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The Distributional Impact of Recessions : The Global Financial Crisis and the Pandemic Recession

Shibata, Ippei - 2020

Using the U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the Pandemic Crisis … and those of the Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-'social' (where … workers. Unlike during the Global Financial Crisis, however, employment in social industries fell more whereas employment in …

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Rising Child Poverty in Europe : Mitigating the Scarring from the Covid-19 Pandemic

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques; Vassileva, Iglika; Chen, Tingyun - 2023

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals’ life prospects and well-being but also have...

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Assessing the Impact of Supply Disruptions on the Global Pandemic Recovery

Kemp, Harri; Portillo, Rafael; Santoro, Marika - 2023

We estimate the role of (pre-Ukraine war) supply disruptions in constraining the Covid-19 pandemic recovery, for several advanced economies and emerging markets, and globally. We rely on two approaches. In the first approach, we use sign-restricted Vector Auto Regressions (SVAR) to identify...

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Evaluating the Costs of Government Credit Support Programs During COVID-19 : International Evidence

Hong, Gee Hee; Lucas, Deborah - 2023

Advanced economies made available more than 5 trillion USD through government-supported credit guarantee and direct loan programs to provide lifelines to firms in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Notwithstanding the unprecedented scale of credit made available, an in-depth analysis of the...

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