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 …

dramatic increase in income poverty and inequality between December 2019 and June 2020. The poverty rate, measured with the … national poverty line, goes up from 25.7 to 58.2 per cent over this period and extreme poverty increases from 9.2 to 38.6 per …

During the COVID-19 pandemic, all regions in Indonesia have had negative economic growth. It also increased the poverty … rate in the country. The government must allocate pro-growth and poverty reduction programs to maintain economic growth and … simultaneously reduce poverty. This study aims to measure the relative efficiency of pro-growth poverty reduction spending of local …

Sustainable Development Goals, particularly poverty in Ghana. Specifically, the study examined the effect of COVID-19 on poverty … regressions. Results showed that COVID-19 had significantly increased the poverty levels of households while deteriorating living …