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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Poverty and Covid-19 in Developing Countries

2020-06-01

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In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of population are forced to continue income-generating activities to escape extreme poverty or hunger. To assess the trade-off between poverty and a higher risk of catching COVID-1...

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Literature Corpus work: f9392e8a-d1c5-5c29-956d-b2d08291220b
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3614245

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