The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about massive declines in well-being around the world. This paper seeks to quantify and compare two important components of those losses—increased mortality and higher poverty—using years of human life as a common metric. The paper estimates that almost 20 million life-years were lost to COVID-19 by December 2020. Over the same period and by the most conservative definition, more than 120 million additional years...
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2021/05/24
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS9673
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2021/05/24
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Disclosed
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Death and Destitution : The Global Distribution of Welfare Losses from the COVID-19 Pandemic
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global distribution