which ensued, most developing countries responded to the crisis with a convoluted array of policies intended to stabilize … available evidence to compare the specifics of crisis responses. In this regard it differs from other policy response studies …

This paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity …, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty. We conclude there could be increases in … poverty of a substantial magnitude-up to 400 million new poor living under the $1.90 poverty line, over 500 million new poor …

-existing sociopolitical crisis that threatened the regime's legitimacy and territorial control, policy-makers were primarily interested in …

We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub …-Saharan African countries-Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia-in normal times and times of widespread economic crisis … benefits and their poverty-reducing effects in each country. Second, we study the ability of benefit automatic stabilizers to …

on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts …, intensity, and severity of poverty are, in the best of cases, moderate and, although their progressivity is high, their …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases … poverty in 4 countries using a US$1.25/day PPP poverty line, in 8 countries using a US$2.50/day line, and in 15 countries …