-crisis levels. Most poverty and inequality indicators fell over the period. …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … discretionary tax-benefit policies in alleviating the shock. Our analysis shows modest increases in headcount poverty rates and … inequality, and somewhat larger effects on the poverty gap due to lower relative earnings losses of the poor population at the …

dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … national poverty line, goes up from 25.7 to 58.2 per cent over this period and extreme poverty increases from 9.2 to 38.6 per …

incidence of poverty by 1.3 and 1.6 percentage points in 2020 and 2021,respectively. The effects were bigger among households … with children: if no modifications had been undertaken in social protection as a response to COVID-19, poverty would have …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more …

results show that inequality in Colombia is associated with increases in individual participation in political organizations …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …