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 …

Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of … social protection systems on the evolution of poverty in Africa. This paper combines per capita gross domestic product growth … pandemic on poverty. It finds that the pandemic increased poverty in Africa by 1.5-1.7 percentage points in 2020, relatively …