labor informality and poverty in Colombia. To do so, earnings gaps associated with labor informality are estimated; then …, the effect of formalization on poverty is calculated, as the influence of changes in labor informality on Colombia … great potential to reduce poverty, its actual effect on Colombia's poverty reduction in the years analyzed was low. …

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 …

The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which has become a global epidemic, hit Ghana on 12 March 2020 and, in … 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 …

Poverty simulations suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures implemented by the government to contain the …