This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two different scenarios for its …

This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent …-income households to a much greater extent, and the negative welfare effects lingered. The paper also documents that although the …

indicates that regular flooding events can move tens of thousands of Sri Lankans into transient poverty at once, hindering the … country's recent progress on poverty eradication and shared prosperity. As metrics of disaster impacts, poverty incidence and …

understanding of households' vulnerability to shock-induced poverty is critical for disaster risk management and the design of … scalable social safety net programs. Standard poverty measures rely on static snapshots that are suitable for quantifying … structural poverty but not for assessing the vulnerability of non-poor households to fall below the poverty line when they …

are effective in mitigating the loss of welfare induced by forced displacement. This paper examines whether Iraq's Public … calorie intakes and are less vulnerable to falling into poverty. However, displaced beneficiaries remained significantly worse … off and more vulnerable to poverty than non-displaced households, suggesting that, although the Public Distribution System …

, simulations suggest that an optimal policy path to balance consumer and producer welfare and meet the higher societal objective of …

mobilization for planting and harvest, thereby reducing rice area planted as well as rice yields. Household welfare, measured by …

fiscal system is improving the welfare of the population: only 33.2 percent of the population has become poorer due to the …