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Pandemic precarity and the complicated case of Maharashtra: Interrogating state capacity and its fault linesThe state of Maharashtra and the city of Mumbai have been referred to as the epidemic epicentre of India since the time of the plague of 1896 and influenza epidemic of 1918...
Pandemic Migrants COVID-19 vaccineSeminar
CEEG Seminar Series: The impact of COVID-19 on the nutrition of Mozambican families and childrenOn Wednesday 20 April 2022, 12:00-15:00 (UTC+2), Margherita Squarcina, PhD student at the University of Florence, will present her ongoing study entitled 'The impact of COVID-19 on the nutrition of Mozambican families and children'. The...
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Above or below the poverty line – research on shifts in global poverty picked up by development media
COVID-19 Global poverty Precarity Working Paper
COVID-19 and informal work: Degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the worldThis paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America)...
Informal economy Economic impact COVID-19Working Paper
Residual capacity and the political economy of pandemic response in GhanaOn the whole, poor countries in Africa and elsewhere seem to have weathered the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2, or COVID-19) pandemic better than wealthier countries with superior healthcare systems...
COVID-19 State capacity ClientelismWorking Paper
The COVID-19 crisis and the South African informal economy: A stalled recoveryThis paper seeks to identify the differentiated impacts of the crisis on specific groups of informal workers...
COVID-19 South Africa InformalJournal Article
The impact of COVID-19 on consumption poverty in MozambiqueTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study assesses the impact of COVID-19 on household consumption poverty. To predict changes in income and the associated effects on poverty, we rely on existing estimated macroeconomic impacts...
COVID-19 Poverty InequalityBlog
COVID-19 in India: cases, deaths, and vaccinationsThe Omicron variant resulted in a third major wave of Covid-19 in India, with the number of cases exceeding those in the second wave, albeit causing less severe illness on average...
COVID-19 IndiaBlog
The COVID-19 crisis, informal workers, and gender — understanding the intersections
The COVID-19 crisis — the pandemic, restrictions, and recession — has not been a grand leveler...
Equality and inequality COVID-19 GenderReport
Policy in the time of pandemic: Social transfers in South Africa during the coronavirus national lockdown, 2020This case study details the policy choices and decisions of the South African government to provide economic relief, through social grants, to vulnerable South Africans and those resident in South Africa to enable them to withstand the effects of the...
COVID-19 Welfare PolicyWorking Paper
The global inequality boomerangThis paper focuses on the past and potential future evolution of income (or consumption) inequality in the world over the period 1981–2040...
Global inequality COVID-19 PandemicSeminar
CEEG Seminar Series: The economic recession in MozambiqueOn Wednesday 23 February 2022, Michael Sambo, Researcher at IESE , will present a recent study entitled The economic recession in Mozambique: Was it COVID-19? – A look from the external sector . The seminar is part of the CEEG Seminar Series...
Journal Article
The role of automatic stabilizers and emergency tax–beneft policies during the COVID‑19 pandemic: Evidence from EcuadorTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | By combining household survey data before and during the COVID-19 pandemic with detailed tax-benefit simulations, this paper quantifies the distributional effects of COVID-19 in Ecuador and the role of tax-benefit poli...
COVID-19 Microsimulation PovertyWorking Paper
Recovery with distress: unpacking COVID-19 impact on livelihoods and poverty in BangladeshThe social and ecomomic impact of COVID-19 has been deep, wide-ranging, and multi-dimensional...
COVID-19 Livelihoods InformalJournal Article
The macroeconomic impact of COVID-19 in Mozambique: A social accounting matrix approachTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW | This study assesses the economic costs of COVID-19 and the state of emergency implemented by the Government of Mozambique...
COVID-19 Multiplier analysis Social Accounting Matrix