The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty

Mahler, Dan; Yonzan, Nishant; Lakner, Christoph

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-10198

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“…It led to cancelation of political, religious, and cultural events and of in-person work for much of the earth’s population. The International Labor Organization predicts a 6.7% loss of job hours globally in the second quarter of 2020, equivalent to 195 million full-time jobs (Mahler, Lakner, Aguilar, & Wu, 2020). Schools and universities closed for at least some of the duration in 172 countries, affecting 98.5% of the world’s students (UNESCO, 2020).…”

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Dreams about COVID-19 versus normative dreams: Trends by gender.

Barrett

2020

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Dreams about the COVID-19 pandemic were collected from 2,888 dreamers via an online survey and compared to normative dreams from an earlier period. A total of 9 categories of emotions and body concerns from the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) were utilized. As predicted by the continuity hypothesis of dreaming, women showed significantly lower positive emotions in their dreams and higher rates of negative emotions, anxiety, sadness, anger, body content, references to biological processes, health, and death. For male respondents, the predicted higher score for the LIWC variable health was the only one significant at as high a level as for women. LIWC positive emotions, negative emotions, anxiety, and death were elevated in the predicted direction at lower significance levels than the effects for women. The variables anger, sadness, and body did not differ for men between the pandemic dreams and the normative sample. Results are discussed in terms of the continuity hypothesis both for distress and specific concerns of both groups and in light of the higher rate of many stressors for women versus men during the pandemic.

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Dreams about COVID-19 versus normative dreams: Trends by gender.

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“…The World Bank reported that 734 million people lived with extreme poverty (less than $1.90 a day) in 2015. In view of COVID-19, an additional 40 to 60 million people are likely to be trapped in extreme poverty (Mahler et al, 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic forced not only 1.12 billion people into extreme poverty worldwide but also millions of people in above poverty line are also likely to suffer from extreme poverty due to lack of social security.…”

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Social Impact of COVID-19 First Wave in India: Issues and Challenges

Sathish

2022

Journal of the Anthropological Survey of India

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The Government of India announced its nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19 first wave in Indian society. It urged people for major behavioural changes of wearing mask, maintaining physical distance, preventing social gathering, work from home, and frequent hand washing. However, these lockdown restrictions gave rise to various social issues and social challenges. Against this backdrop, this article examines the major social impact of COVID-19 first wave under the theoretical framework of social inequality and social upheaval. This study unfolds that COVID-19 has not only widened the social inequalities between the rich and the poor but also paved the way for poverty, unemployment, starvation, domestic violence and unorganised workers. It forced nearly 400 million people into poverty while the unemployment rate was unprecedented from April to September 2020 in the last four decades. The non-universalisation of public distribution system and the bereft financial package posed challenges to people against starvation. The rate of domestic violence is unusual and such magnitudes of complaints have not been reported in the last decade. The unorganised workers lost their jobs, income and lives due to lack of social support, abject poverty and political reasons.

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“…The procedures to estimate the impact of the pandemic on poverty in Africa are the following (see also, Mahler et al, 2022): first, to project household surveys to 2020, we need distribution of welfare (income or consumption) in 2019 for all countries. However, household surveys are not conducted annually in most low and middle-income countries.…”

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“…5 Then, using the same extrapolation method, we extrapolate the 2019 country distributions forward to 2020 and 2021. Following Mahler et al (2022), we report two different scenarios projecting poverty for the COVID-19 affected years: (i) a series incorporating the effect of the pandemic ("with COVID-19"), and (ii) one without the effect of the pandemic ("without COVID-19"). The former uses the per capita GDP growth rates from the World Bank's June-2021 Global Economic Prospects (GEP) report, while the latter uses January-2020 GEP forecasts -that is growth forecasted before the pandemic and thus not incorporating the effects of the pandemic.…”

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Revisiting Poverty Trends and the Role of Social Protection Systems in Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abay¹,

Yonzan²,

Kurdi³

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in 1975, provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition. IFPRI's strategic research aims to foster a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply; promote healthy diets and nutrition for all; build inclusive and efficient markets, trade systems, and food industries; transform agricultural and rural economies; and strengthen institutions and governance. Gender is integrated in all the Institute's work. Partnerships, communications, capacity strengthening, and data and knowledge management are essential components to translate IFPRI's research from action to impact. The Institute's regional and country programs play a critical role in responding to demand for food policy research and in delivering holistic support for country-led development. IFPRI collaborates with partners around the world.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Inequality and Poverty

Cited by 106 publications

References 38 publications

Dreams about COVID-19 versus normative dreams: Trends by gender.

Dreams about COVID-19 versus normative dreams: Trends by gender.

Social Impact of COVID-19 First Wave in India: Issues and Challenges

Revisiting Poverty Trends and the Role of Social Protection Systems in Africa during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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