COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia

COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) does not distinguish borders, race or gender. Everyone is affected but not equally. Women are at risk of seeing structural socioeconomic gaps deepen with COVID-9(Coronavirus), along with worsening violence and social norms. T...

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Main Authors: Cuesta, Jose, Pico, Julieth
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:
CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
POVERTY
GENDER
POVERTY GAP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/357101596540950552/COVID-19-Affects-Everyone-but-Not-Equally-The-Gendered-Poverty-Effects-of-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-in-Colombia
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spelling okr-10986-343152021-05-25T09:50:38Z COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia Cuesta, Jose Pico, Julieth CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 PANDEMIC IMPACT POVERTY GENDER POVERTY GAP COVID-19 (Coronavirus) does not distinguish borders, race or gender. Everyone is affected but not equally. Women are at risk of seeing structural socioeconomic gaps deepen with COVID-9(Coronavirus), along with worsening violence and social norms. The authors explore the extent to which COVID-19 (Coronavirus) will exacerbate gendered employment, income generation and, ultimately, poverty gaps. The authors explore a new but sprawling literature discussing the employment effects of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). The authors also develop a simple microsimulation methodology to estimate the poverty impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) (versus a counterfactual of no COVID-19 (Coronavirus)); the specific poverty reduction impacts of mitigation policies; and the distinctive impacts by gender. The authors test our microsimulation approach in Colombia, a country that has implemented an unparalleled number of mitigation measures and has reopened its economy earlier than regional neighbors. The authors find that the poverty impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) are daunting (between 3.0 and 9.1 pp increases of poverty headcount). Mitigation measures vary considerably in their individual capacity to reverse poverty (from no effect to 0.9 pp poverty reduction). A fiscally neutral universal basic income (UBI) will bring about larger poverty reductions. Importantly, both men and women report similar poverty impacts from the pandemic and mitigation policies. The sheer magnitude of the downturn, the design of interventions and our own measure of poverty explain this results. 2020-08-10T20:40:23Z 2020-08-10T20:40:23Z 2020-08 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/357101596540950552/COVID-19-Affects-Everyone-but-Not-Equally-The-Gendered-Poverty-Effects-of-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-in-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34315 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Colombia
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topic CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
POVERTY
GENDER
POVERTY GAP
spellingShingle CORONAVIRUS
COVID-19
PANDEMIC IMPACT
POVERTY
GENDER
POVERTY GAP
Cuesta, Jose
Pico, Julieth
COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia
geographic_facet Latin America & Caribbean
Colombia
description COVID-19 (Coronavirus) does not distinguish borders, race or gender. Everyone is affected but not equally. Women are at risk of seeing structural socioeconomic gaps deepen with COVID-9(Coronavirus), along with worsening violence and social norms. The authors explore the extent to which COVID-19 (Coronavirus) will exacerbate gendered employment, income generation and, ultimately, poverty gaps. The authors explore a new but sprawling literature discussing the employment effects of COVID-19 (Coronavirus). The authors also develop a simple microsimulation methodology to estimate the poverty impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) (versus a counterfactual of no COVID-19 (Coronavirus)); the specific poverty reduction impacts of mitigation policies; and the distinctive impacts by gender. The authors test our microsimulation approach in Colombia, a country that has implemented an unparalleled number of mitigation measures and has reopened its economy earlier than regional neighbors. The authors find that the poverty impacts of COVID-19 (Coronavirus) are daunting (between 3.0 and 9.1 pp increases of poverty headcount). Mitigation measures vary considerably in their individual capacity to reverse poverty (from no effect to 0.9 pp poverty reduction). A fiscally neutral universal basic income (UBI) will bring about larger poverty reductions. Importantly, both men and women report similar poverty impacts from the pandemic and mitigation policies. The sheer magnitude of the downturn, the design of interventions and our own measure of poverty explain this results.
format Working Paper
author Cuesta, Jose
Pico, Julieth
author_facet Cuesta, Jose
Pico, Julieth
author_sort Cuesta, Jose
title COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia
title_short COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia
title_full COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia
title_fullStr COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia
title_full_unstemmed COVID-19 Affects Everyone but Not Equally : The Gendered Poverty Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Colombia
title_sort covid-19 affects everyone but not equally : the gendered poverty effects of the covid-19 pandemic in colombia
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/357101596540950552/COVID-19-Affects-Everyone-but-Not-Equally-The-Gendered-Poverty-Effects-of-the-COVID-19-Pandemic-in-Colombia
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