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population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade …-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-19, we use regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions … announcements, we measure the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. We find that the …
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Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa. These...
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Redistributive systems in Africa are still in their infancy but are constantly expanding in order to finance increasing public spending. This paper aims at characterizing the redistributive potential of six African countries: Ghana, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and South Africa. These...
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
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This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …
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avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce … substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using data on human mobility and poverty rates in 729 subnational regions … changes between higher- and lower-poverty regions. Conditional on country-day fixed effects, shelter-in-place orders decrease …
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