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 …

poverty status of the Vietnamese households, and then simulated the impact of cash transfer programs by the government of … Vietnam on the income and poverty status of households. Our simulations suggest that COVID-19 leads to substantial reduction …-poor and helps bring about 1.2 million people out of poverty. The transfers would be particularly pro-poor for ethnic minority …

stated objectives of increasing marriage rates and cutting child poverty at no cost to the government. The assessment is … poverty at the expense of increasing poverty among single-mother families and child deep poverty. Furthermore, the plan would …

living in poverty. Households with a beneficiary increased their level of consumption by 44 percent. The program improved …