The pandemic along with the widespread poverty-stricken regions in the country have affected the population of the country. This article assesses the impact of COVID-19 on the poor and low-income population of the South American continent and the impact it has had on their mental health. It ...
2.3. COVID-19 cases To explore health externalities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we assess how the effect of poverty on mobility reflects on the spread of the virus. We use the daily updates of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on the number of ...
A report by the US Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) indicates that according to World Bank estimates, Afghanistan’s overall poverty level increased from 55% to 72% in 2020 due to economic contraction as the country braced for a second wave of COVID-19 in early ...
DAKAR, May 15 (Xinhua) -- The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic pushed an estimated 55 million Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of poverty reduction in Africa, said a report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The re...
关于COVID-19对全球贫困的影响的最新估计: 回顾2020年和2021年的前景 As the new year brings some hope for the fight against COVID-19, we are looking back and taking stock of the effect of the pandemic on poverty in 2020. In October 2020, using the June vintage of growth forecasts from the...
This chart shows additional people in poverty due to a 20% income drop caused by a Covid-19 recession*.
MANILA, March 16 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic pushed 4.7 million people in Southeast Asia into extreme poverty in 2021, as 9.3 million jobs disappeared, compared with a baseline no-COVID scenario, said an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report released on Wednesday. ...
China was en route to meeting its target of eradicating poverty in rural areas and eliminating regional poverty by 2020 when the COVID-19 epidemic happened and quickly spread throughout the country. The outbreak has had a profound influence on all walks of life in China. ...
Infect Dis Poverty (2021) 10:10 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-020-00784-2 EDITORIAL Open Access The new COVID‑19 poor and the neglected tropical diseases resurgence Peter J. Hotez1,2,3,4,5,6*, Alan Fenwick7* and David Molyneux8* More than 100 million people are...
Poverty and economic dislocation reduce compliance with COVID-19 shelter-in-place protocolsCOVID-19shelter-in-placecomplianceShelter-in-place ordinances were the first wide-spread policy measures aimed to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Compliance with shelter-in-place directives is individually ...