Precarity and the pandemic: COVID-19 and poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries

Andy Sumner, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez and Christopher Hoy

No wp-2020-77, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper makes a set of estimates for the potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty incidence, intensity, and severity in developing countries and on the distribution of global poverty. We conclude there could be increases in poverty of a substantial magnitude—up to 400 million new poor living under the $1.90 poverty line, over 500 million new poor living under the poverty lines of $3.20 and $5.50.

Keywords: COVID-19; Crisis; Global poverty; Precarity; SDGs; Vulnerability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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