and compare two important components of those losses - increased mortality and higher poverty - using years of human life … welfare losses - combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years - depends both on the choice of poverty … line(s) and on the relative weights placed on mortality and poverty. With a constant absolute poverty line and a relatively …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual "herd immunity" scenario: without any policy intervention … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …

This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 … dominance of poverty over mortality is reversed in a counterfactual herd immunity scenario: without any policy intervention, LYs … pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional …