welfare losses – combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years – depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … and compare two important components of those losses – increased mortality and higher poverty – using years of human life …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs …

estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … percent urban, higher food prices still led to a greater incidence and depth of poverty at the national level. …

indicators, including social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper …"Shared prosperity" has become a common phrase in the development policy discourse. This short paper provides its most …

opportunity - and empirical applications - are reviewed, and implications for the measurement of poverty and of the rate of … economic development are discussed. …

is adopted, and we define classes of social welfare functions and discuss relevant dominance conditions for six such …This paper asks whether prioritarianism – the view that social welfare orderings should give explicit priority to the …

from early childhood development to investment in better teaching. In certain quarters, there is also agreement that …