welfare losses - combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years - depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … with GDP per capita: poverty accounts for a much greater share of the welfare costs in poorer countries. Finally, the … years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively estimated using growth estimates for 2020 and two dierent scenarios for its …

The objective of this paper is to present some early experiences of poverty and social impact analysis (PSIA) from the … step toward PSIA by making more explicit the links between poverty and policies. Various examples highlight that even … potential poverty effects even in countries with limited data, and therefore contribute to a more informed policy debate and …

employment, poverty and inequality. To evaluate impacts on poverty and inequality, we use a CGE Top Down approach. The paper … unemployment as well as a fall of poverty for each population groups …

paper considers the effects of macroeconomic policies on poverty and inequality by building and linking a microsimulation … (MS) model to a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model. In the South African context, where poverty and inequality are … impact on poverty and inequality can be assessed in detail …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … relationship between the concentration of cash transfers net of direct taxes and their effectiveness in terms of reducing poverty …

increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had … longer-run adverse effects, and quite robust evidence that tighter welfare time limits reduce poverty and public assistance …We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic …

in a dynamic macroeconomic model to study a war's impact on output, growth, consumption, welfare and the national debt …