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 …

This article examines the causal relationship between foreign aid, poverty, and economic growth in 82 developing … relationship between economic growth and poverty; (b) a unidirectional causal relationship from economic growth to foreign aid; and … (c) unidirectional causality from poverty to foreign aid. In the long-run, the study found that (a) foreign aid tends to …

population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of intense natural disasters … increase in natural disasters and population exposure, represented by population densities. Population vulnerability also … matters, but increasing incomes seem to be associated first with greater and then lesser vulnerability. Finally, there is a …

The COVID-19 crisis has led to substantial reductions in earnings. We propose a new measure of financial vulnerability …. Using data from the ECB Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) we analyse preexisting financial vulnerability in … in alleviating vulnerability is highly country dependent. …