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Findings from a new study on poverty and consumption featured in the national news
A UNU-WIDER Working Paper ‘Simulating the effect on households’ real consumption and poverty of the increase in prices that followed the 2015–16 economic crisis in Mozambique’, published in 2018, has been featured in one the leading national newspapers in Mozambique.
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Will COVID-19 lead to half a billion more people living in poverty in developing countries?
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Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
April 2020
The impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries are starting to be felt. The Economist went as far as to call it the ‘next calamity’, noting how...
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The end of poverty postponed?: Over a billion people living in poverty and a $500 million per day loss of income for the poorest people in the world could soon be reality
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Andy Sumner, Christopher Hoy, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez
June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to dominate headlines as the death toll rises and economies falter. However, far too little attention is being given...
Working Paper
The effectiveness of social protection in five African countries through normal times and times of crisis
We study the effectiveness of social protection benefits in reducing income and consumption poverty in five sub-Saharan African countries—Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia—in normal times and times of widespread economic crisis. Using...
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