Abay, Kibrom A..; Kurdi, Sikandra; Tafere, Kibrom; … - 2022
Quantifying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in Africa has been as difficult as predicting the path of … social protection systems on the evolution of poverty in Africa. This paper combines per capita gross domestic product growth … pandemic on poverty. It finds that the pandemic increased poverty in Africa by 1.5-1.7 percentage points in 2020, relatively …