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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
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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 PovertyWorking Paper
COVID-19: macroeconomic dimensions in the developing worldThe COVID-19 pandemic represents an unprecedented global crisis. The task for economic policy is to help keep people alive, enterprises afloat, and households out of poverty. The pandemic has macroeconomic dimensions...
commodities COVID-19 DebtsWorking Paper
An analysis of the distributional impact of excise duty in Uganda using a tax-benefit microsimulation modelThe distributional analysis of consumption taxes is useful for establishing the welfare impact of tax policy. This paper uses the UGAMOD microsimulation model to establish the tax incidence and welfare impact of excise duty in Uganda...
excise duty microsimulation PovertyBackground Note
COVID-19 and the socioeconomic impact in Africa: The case of GhanaThe first two cases of COVID-19 were reported in Ghana on 12 March 2020 by the health ministry...
COVID-19 economic impact GhanaJournal Article
Informality and poverty in EcuadorThis paper uses national representative data from the Ecuadorian Family Expenditure survey to study the determinants of poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the two-way relationship between these two phenomena...
Informal sector (Economics) PovertyJournal Article
Welfare and Redistributive Effects of Social Assistance in the Global SouthPart of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South
Social assistance Social protection PovertyPolicy Brief
Unequal growth in Mozambique and the regionThere is an increasing interest in the analysis of economic inequalities in least developed countries...
Poverty Growth Unequal growth