Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

‘Poverty and the Labour Market in Indonesia: Employment Trends across the Wealth Distribution', is among Indonesia …'s first papers on the relationship between poverty and the labour market. It provides a detailed analysis of employment … growth rates, the creation of millions of new jobs, and a strong decrease in poverty rates in recent years, many Indonesians …