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Precarity and the pandemic : COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries

Sumner, Andrew; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Hoy, Chris - 2020

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...

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COVID-19 and global poverty : are LDCs being left behind?

Valensisi, Giovanni - 2020

This paper provides a preliminary assessment of COVID-19's impact on global poverty in the light of the IMF's April 2020 growth forecasts. The analysis shows that the pandemic will have dramatic consequences, eroding many of the gains recorded over the last decade in terms of poverty reduction....

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The return to foreign aid

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Hansen, Henrik - 2015

We investigate the marginal productivity of investment across countries. The aim is to estimate the return on investments financed by foreign aid and by domestic resource mobilization, using aggregate data. Both returns are expected to vary across countries and time. Consequently we develop a...

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Aid and poverty : why does aid not address poverty (much)?

Shepherd, Andrew W.; Bishop, Sylvia - 2013

Aid is not generally aimed at the poorest people, though most multilateral or bilateral agencies would like to think they get included. However, donors’ strategies are generally blind to differentiation among the poor, and have not improved in this respect. The special provisions for the least...

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Industries without smokestacks : telecommunication and ICT-based services trade

Frischtak, Cláudio R. - 2017

This paper provides a basic understanding of the nature of emerging key information and communication technologies, and establishes the distance of countries from high-quality access to the internet - the necessary threshold one needs to cross in order to make use of such technologies. The paper...

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The rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa : implications for food system transformation

Tschirley, David; Reardon, Thomas Anthony; Dolislager, … - 2014

We examine the implications of the rise of a middle class in East and Southern Africa for food consumption patterns and … the food system. A unique classification of food items shows that highly processed food has one-third of the purchased … food market, with comparable shares in rural and urban areas (31 per cent vs 35 per cent), and among the vulnerable and …

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The economics of malaria in Africa

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Thuilliez, Josselin - 2014

Malaria still claims a heavy human and economic toll, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa. Even though the causality between malaria and poverty is presumably bi-directional, malaria plays a role in the economic difficulties of the region. This article provides an analysis of the economic...

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The role of trust and poverty in compliance with social distancing measures in Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Mazive, Edson; Baza, Gerson; Xirinda, Gimelgo; … - 2021

Since it began, the COVID-19 pandemic has imposed a number of challenges on Africa and the rest of the world. Following the recommendations of the World Health Organization, many countries imposed social distancing measures and cancelled non-essential activities in order to contain the spread of...

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Forecasting recovery from COVID-19 using financial data : an application to Viet Nam

Lastunen, Jesse; Richiardi, Matteo - 2021

We develop a new methodology to nowcast the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and forecast its evolution in small, export-oriented countries. To this aim, we exploit variation in financial indexes at the industry level and relate them to the expected duration of the crisis for each industry, under...

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The mitigating role of tax and benefit rescue packages for poverty and inequality in Africa amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Lastunen, Jesse; Rattenhuber, Pia; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena; … - 2021

This paper analyses the distributional effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and related tax-benefit measures in 2020 in a cross-country comparative perspective for five African countries: Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We first estimate the impact of the crisis on disposable...

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