We examine the effect of pandemics on selected commodity prices-in particular, those of zinc, copper, lead, and oil. We … pandemics such as the 1918 Spanish Flu, 1957 Asian Flu, and 1968 Hong Kong Flu. We control for demand and supply fundamentals to … are possible from past pandemics, and we conclude that at the time of writing, forecasts are difficult to make in the …

-benefit policies stabilized earnings losses. We then evaluate the impact on income-based poverty and inequality and the contribution of … 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 … cent. Inequality measured by the Gini coefficient increases substantially from 0.461 to 0.592. On average, household …

This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID …-level inequality at the start of the pandemic. The results show that more stringent measures to contain the pandemic were instrumental … in driving the incidence of protests, but only in counties with high levels of inequality before the start of the …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …