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

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

. Beginning to consider migration is associated with low life satisfaction, job loss, and unemployment. In contrast, actually … payments when household members have deteriorating life satisfaction and/or subjective reports of worsening economic conditions … at home. In the absence of remittance income, the poverty rate in Uzbekistan (measured at 3.2 dollar/day purchasing power …

Traditional risk assessments use asset losses as the main metric to measure the severity of a disaster. This paper … proposes an expanded risk assessment based on a framework that adds socioeconomic resilience and uses wellbeing losses as the … process at the household level, this risk assessment provides new insights into disaster risks in Sri Lanka. The analysis …