This study assesses the incidence of the Covid-19 pandemic on poverty levels in 50 African countries by employing the … PovcalNet computational tool for poverty monitoring. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Pre Covid-19 macroeconomic … projections of October 2019 and revised macroeconomic projections of April 2020 and (ii) three poverty thresholds, notably, US$1 …

This study assesses the incidence of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty levels in 50 African countries by employing the … PovcalNet computational tool for poverty monitoring. The empirical evidence is based on: (i) Pre Covid-19 macroeconomic … projections of October 2019 and revised macroeconomic projections of April 2020 and (ii) three poverty thresholds, notably, US$1 …

climate change on achieving pro-poor economic growth in Africa. Predicated on poverty-inequality-climate analysis, the …Africa's pursuit of inclusive and sustainable economic growth is impeded by many challenges, including climate change …

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 … of Africa, Latin America and Asia during the first year of COVID-19. We focus on within-country differential mobility …

pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below … emerging literatures in public health and economics on the pandemic effects in Vietnam, with a specific focus on vulnerable …

Are improvements in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) since the mid-1990s sustainable? What types of growth strategies … contribute the most to reducing poverty? This paper examines these questions in four stages. First, it explores the factors …

poses new challenges. The paper argues that, while the impact of the pandemic are unavoidable, the existing poverty levels …, 2020, a world pandemic has emerged with possible serious economic impact to many nations, and Zimbabwe in not an exception …. The world pandemic has been declared by WHO, and now commonly known as COVID-19, having started in China towards the end …

This paper examines the role of regional poverty on the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.A. It also verifies if the effects … differ with the concentration of ethnic minorities. We find that poverty is a significant and consistent determinant of … higher COVID-19 infections and fatalities. The prevalent poverty areas experienced higher infections due to its economic …

-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food …The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for … each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in …