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Development challenges in Africa in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Health-system equity, egalitarian democracy and COVID-19 outcomes: An empirical analysisTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a close connection between inequitable access to health care, welfare services and adverse outcomes from the pandemic...
COVID-19 Healthcare healthcare accessWorking Paper
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–benefit policies during the COVID-19 pandemic in EcuadorThis paper makes use of tax–benefit microsimulation techniques to quantify the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax–benefit policies in mitigating the immediate impact of the economic shocks...
COVID-19 microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Estimates of multidimensional poverty for India using NSSO-71 and -75We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014–15 to 2017–18. We use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the multidimensional poverty index (MPI)...
multidimensional poverty index Income PovertyIn the media
UNU-WIDER expert interviewed on COVID-19 impacts on trust in governments in Finnish development magazine
COVID-19 Seminar
Myles Wickstead on the changing face of aid and development
Working Paper
Do bigger health budgets cushion pandemics?: An empirical test of COVID-19 deaths across the worldHow has government healthcare spending prepared countries for tackling the COVID-19 pandemic? Arguably, spending is the primary policy tool of governments in providing effective health...
COVID-19 Healthcare Healthcare expenditureSeminar
Daria Taglioni on international trade and supply chains post COVID-19
Blog
Headline data suggests low-income states are coping better with the pandemic than high-income states. But is this true?States with fragile state health systems have been commended for effective responses to the COVID-19 pandemic...
COVID-19 Capable states state capacityBlog
The world needs a people’s vaccineThe world needs a people’s vaccine for COVID-19 — one provided universally, and accessible to the entire world population. A patent-protected vaccine could ultimately exclude many people from being vaccinated and protected...
COVID-19 COVID-19 vaccineWorking Paper
Horizontal inequality, COVID-19, and lockdown readiness: Evidence from IndiaA growing body of research shows that COVID-19 both reflects and exacerbates existing inequalities...
Horizontal inequality Ethnic inequality Caste
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Funda Ustek-Spilda on fair work in the gig economy after COVID-19
Working Paper
Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Migration COVID-19 panelWorking Paper
The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918–20: An interpretative survey in the time of COVID-19The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20—commonly known as the Spanish flu—infected over a quarter of the world’s population and killed over 50 million people...
Spanish flu COVID-19 pandemic