Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads
By David Laborde Debucquet, Will Martin, R. Vos. 2020
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With COVID-19 and its economic fallout now spreading in the poorest parts of the world, many more people will become poor and food-insecure. In a new scenario analysis, we estimate that globally, absent interventions, over 140 million people could fall into extreme poverty (measured against the $1.90 poverty line) in 2020 — an increase of 20% from present levels. This in turn would drive up food insecurity. A global health crisis could thus cause a major food crisis — unless steps are taken to provide unprecedented economic emergency relief.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions
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- Lives and livelihoods: Estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the Covid-19 pandemic (2020, methodology): “Our global estimates of the poverty impacts of Covid-19 come from Lakner et al. (2020). There are two methodological di erences between these estimates and those reported in Section 3.”