This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

mortality (a presumed proxy for improvements in health services), concentrating on the countries that increased their health …, Rwanda, and Malawi, budget support did have a positive effect on health spending and, except for Rwanda, neonatal mortality …

cyclical increases in income may raise mortality, even when the long-run effects of income are in the opposite direction. There … is no evidence that recent increases in inequality raised mortality beyond what it would otherwise have been …

of Doyle et al. (2015), we find that the VA reduces 28-day mortality by 46% (4.5 percentage points) and that these …

of a SIP policy. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases. The increase in … excess mortality is statistically significant in the immediate weeks following SIP implementation for the international … of the policy. At the U.S. state-level, excess mortality increases in the immediate weeks following SIP introduction and …