We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …

the schemes workable for the poor. The vast number of people below the poverty line, and the failure of schemes meant for …

poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this …