of changes in employment due to the COVID-19 crisis on inequality and poverty using the recently developed tax … recently released Integrated Household Survey which was collected just before the COVID-19 crisis. We find that the poverty … measured by headcount and poverty gap increases because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The pandemic has also worsened inequality as …

Fiscal policy is central to not only macroeconomic stability and growth, but also to poverty and inequality reduction … insufficient to compensate for the effect of taxes, resulting in net increases in poverty. In the context of upper …

. Poverty, as measured by the at risk of poverty (AROP) rate, would increase significantly, even in presence of policy measures … (+1.7pp), although this result depend on whether we anchor the poverty line to its pre-crisis level. When doing so, the … impact of the COVID crisis on poverty becomes very close to the one observed in the aftermath of the financial crisis (i …

's fiscal policies also lead to a reduction in poverty, mainly due to well-targeted direct transfers …