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Ecuador’s social protection system failed during the pandemic: It needs a rethinkHousehold incomes in Ecuador were badly hit by the pandemic, despite the government’s emergency grant to families...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyTechnical Note
How to implement sub-national poverty lines in a SOUTHMOD country model using conditional constants: The case of UGAMODThis note describes how to incorporate sub-national poverty lines into a SOUTHMOD country model using conditional constants within the constants function in such a way that the Statistics Presenter can generate national-level poverty statistics...
Tax-benefit microsimulation PovertySeminar
François Bourguignon on COVID-19 and inequality
Working Paper
Estimating poverty transitions in Mozambique using synthetic panels: A validation exercise and an application to cross-sectional survey dataIn this paper we first validate the use of the synthetic panels technique in the context of the 2014/15 intra-year panel survey data for Mozambique, and then apply the same technique to the 1996/97, 2002/03, 2008/09, and 2014/15 cross-sectional house...
Poverty Dynamics poverty transitions MozambiqueWorking Paper
Welfare and the depth of informality: Evidence from five African countriesThis study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of informality at the household level...
Informality Measurement PovertyResearch Brief
Working 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 PovertyWorking Paper
Informality and work statusThe most important determinant of households’ livelihoods is how much they earn for their labour...
Informal work Work status LivelihoodsProject workshop
Transforming informal work and livelihoods — authors' workshop
Working Paper
Health, development, and institutional factors: The Mozambique caseThe central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in Mozambique...
State Traditional medicine MozambiqueWorking Paper
The political economy of the resource curse: A development perspectiveThis paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health...
Resource abundance Inequality InstitutionsJournal Article
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Canada Earnings Economic integrationJournal Article
The long-term evolution of national income inequality and rural poverty in ChinaPart of Journal Special Issue Income inequalities and redistribution in China
Income inequality Poverty Gini decompositionBlog
Beyond lockdown: rebuilding the social contractContinued lockdown measures are straining the social contract between citizens and governments...
Social unrest Lockdown Sub-Saharan AfricaWorking Paper
Africa’s lockdown dilemma: High poverty and low trustThe primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population...
COVID-19 Lockdown Poverty