countries represent 85 percent of the global population, but only 21 percent of the pandemic's death toll. This unusual … inequality creates the impression that the world is subjected to two different pandemics in terms of their impact. This paper … documents the observed inequality with a new indicator that expresses severity relative to pre-pandemic patterns. It argues that …

The size of the economic shocks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the associated non … over the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis relies on high-frequency proxies, such as daily electricity … consumption, nitrogen dioxide emission, and mobility records, to trace the economic disruptions caused by the pandemic, and …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more … pandemic, the global export supply of food could decrease between 6 and 20 percent and global prices increase between 2 and 6 …

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has halted economic activity worldwide, hurting firms and pushing them toward … pandemic, while using credit to remain alive until the crisis subdues. Fourth, the existing legal and regulatory infrastructure … is ill-equipped to deal with an exogenous systemic shock such as this pandemic. Financial sector policies can help …

Tourism is one of Latin America's fastest growing industries but the impact of tourism on the poor and the effects on … the impact of tourism on the economy and poverty at the subnational level in developing countries. As a country marked by … of gross domestic product. This paper presents the results of a top-down assessment of the impact of tourism spending on …

sources of livelihood. The paper also confirms the direct impact of the voluntary component on economic activity, by showing …

COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 to analyze the effect of the electoral cycle on the size and composition of the social … sooner the next election date—the larger is the share of the social protection pandemic budget allocated to social assistance …

fertility distribution of adults in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, to estimate the likely impact of the epidemic on the … by the Ebola epidemic are significant, but represent a small fraction (1.4 percent) of the existing orphan burden in the …

borne out in an analysis of the incidence of government health spending in Vietnam (a country where fees are more pro …

significant impact on poverty in Vietnam in about a quarter of the scenarios, with 400,000 to more than a million people living in … in Vietnam shows that the main determinant of the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030 is the income of unskilled …-informed development, climate change has no impact on extreme poverty, although it still has an impact on the income of the bottom 40 …