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 …

Programs to fight poverty aim at allowing individuals to support themselves ex-post, when they are not part of the …

This paper presents results from one of the first independent socioeconomic household surveys to study urban poverty … among Saudi nationals. This survey was administered to 496 Saudi households in Dammam in 2019. Poverty is conceptualised as … relative poverty, which is based on the country’s inflation adjusted national poverty line of $6 per person per day. The …

of household well-being such as poverty, food security and costly risk-coping behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic … impacts in line with the primary goals of social safety nets and prevent households from falling deeper into poverty by …