Seck, Abdoulaye(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-29)
This paper aims to assess the short-run distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
in Senegal by specifically looking at income losses, poverty and inequality impacts,
and how the Government would go about offsetting ...
With new infections on the rise, it is a race against time for governments to re-look
at some policy interventions necessary to provide appropriate coping and recovery
mechanisms to respond to the crisis. Informed by the ...
Issahaku, Haruna; Abu, Benjamin Musah(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-29)
This paper estimates the poverty consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and its
fiscal implications in Ghana using a micro-simulation analytical approach applied
to household level data collected in 2016/2017 by the Ghana ...
Yimer, Feiruz; Alemayehu, Mohammed; Taffesse, Seyoum(African Economic Research consortium, 2020-11-29)
A significant fraction of recently surveyed Ethiopian rural and urban households
report income losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This study estimates how
large these income losses are likely to be and the consequent ...