This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention …

This paper examines cross-country evidence of how the Covid-19 pandemic spread and the mortality rates associated with … pollution) increase the spread of the pandemic and/or the mortality rate. On average, the government policy delay in mobility … pandemic mortality. Individualistic culture and general trust amplify the positive links between pandemic mortality and the …

countries comprising 97 percent of the world's population, this paper simulates a set of scenarios for global poverty from 2018 …

In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme … poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as fostering the growth in the income of … the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country. In 2016-17, the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group …

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …

the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …

poverty incidence, but more slowly for the upper bound. Either way, the developing world has a higher poverty incidence but is … making more progress against poverty than the developed world …