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The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, much needs to be learnt on the distributional impacts of the pandemic. We contribute new theoretical and empirical evidence on the distributional impacts of the pandemic on different income groups in a multi-country...
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There is hardly any study on learning inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic in a low-income, multi-country context. Analyzing 34 longitudinal household and phone survey rounds from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda, we find that while countries exhibit...
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We offer an updated and comprehensive review of recent studies on the impact of climate change, particularly global warming, on poverty and inequality, paying special attention to data sources as well as empirical methods. While studies consistently find negative impacts of higher temperature on...
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Country statistical capacity is increasingly recognized as crucial for development, but no academic study exists that … common development indexes. Specifically, the ODIN covers most countries, the GDB collects data through its surveys, and the … SPI offers clearer mathematical foundations and somewhat stronger correlation with Sustainable Development Goals …
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A country's statistical capacity takes an indispensable part in its development. We offer a comprehensive comparison … with some agriculture development indicators such as food security, food sustainability and productivity as well as other …
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The international development community has used the World Bank’s Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in … 2004. The Sustainable Development Goals create new challenges for national statistical systems to produce high-quality and …
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recently adopted by the United Nations represent an important step to identify … shared global goals for development over the next two decades. Yet, the stated goals are not as straightforward and easy to …
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We offer the first study on vulnerability adaptation to subjective well-being, using rich panel data over the past two decades for Russia. We found no adaption to vulnerability for life satisfaction and subjective wealth, with longer vulnerability spells being associated with more negative...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in income and employment loss in many countries around the world. Yet, hardly any formal study exists on household finance and future economic expectations in poorer countries. To fill in this gap, we implemented and analyzed a web-based rapid assessment survey...
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Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring these insights into the debates about comparative support for government responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We fill in this gap by analyzing rich survey data from six countries...
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