Kokas, Deeksha; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, Abdel … - 2021
effects. Combining the labor shock and price shock simultaneously, the simulations in this paper show an increase in poverty … individuals in sectors such as tourism and construction are expected to fall into poverty due to COVID-19. The paper estimates … poverty. Specifically, the increase in poverty will be 6.5 percentage points under the optimistic scenario if mitigation …