Estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty

Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez

No wp-2020-43, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper we make estimates of the potential short-term economic impact of COVID-19 on global monetary poverty through contractions in per capita household income or consumption. Our estimates are based on three scenarios: low, medium, and high global contractions of 5, 10, and 20 per cent; we calculate the impact of each of these scenarios on the poverty headcount using the international poverty lines of US$1.90, US$3.20 and US$5.50 per day.

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