This paper examines the impact of the recent recession in Belarus on poverty and broader measures of household welfare … vulnerability to poverty, based on an estimated probability of falling below the national poverty threshold not exceeding 10 percent … of 2014-16 was qualitatively different from earlier recent crisis episodes (2008-09 and 2010-11) in that it affected low …

This paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity …, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty. We conclude there could be increases in … poverty of a substantial magnitude-up to 400 million new poor living under the $1.90 poverty line, over 500 million new poor …

We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub …-Saharan African countries-Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia-in normal times and times of widespread economic crisis … benefits and their poverty-reducing effects in each country. Second, we study the ability of benefit automatic stabilizers to …