This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

to suppress cereal price increases may have adverse effects on poverty reduction in the long term by undermining … potentially positive impacts on child nutrition …

.3 million people (nearly 1 percent of the world's poor) into poverty …In the event of large swings in world food prices, countries often intervene to dampen the impact of international food … intervention of many countries may exacerbate the volatility of world prices. Insulating policies introduced during the 2010 …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its … poverty years and 4.3 million years of life lost across 150 countries. The ratio of PYs to LYs is very large in most countries …

The share of people living in extreme poverty fell from 36 percent in 1990 to 10 percent in 2015 but has continued to … are also where the least evidence exists on how to tackle poverty. This paper investigates whether the Targeting the Ultra … Poor program can lift households out of poverty in a fragile context: Afghanistan. In 80 villages in Balkh province, 1 …