[Kehityspolitiikka] Invitation: WIDER Webinar Series | Poverty and COVID-19 in developing countries

UNU-WIDER invites you to the series finale of their online webinar series<https://www.wider.unu.edu/how-covid-19-changing-development-wider… on development and COVID-19. The next webinar will take place on 7 July, with Olivier Bargain from University of Bordeaux on Between a rock and a hard place: Poverty and COVID-19 in developing countries<https://www.wider.unu.edu/event/olivier-bargain-poverty-and-co… 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-19, the research uses regional mobility to work and poverty rates across 241 regions of 9 countries from Latin America and Africa. With a difference-in-difference approach around the time of lockdown announcements, it measures the differential time variation in work mobility between high and low-poverty regions. Join the event on Tuesday 7 July to find out more and to participate in the discussion. Register here<https://www.wider.unu.edu/event/olivier-bargain-poverty-and-covid-1…es>. Thank you, Ruby Ruby Richardson Communications Assistant [cid:21c3abdd-ce8a-48de-9fa1-8417dbc27958] Email <mailto:richardson@wider.unu.edu> I Twitter<https://twitter.com/UNUWIDER> I YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/user/UNUWIDER> I Flickr<https://www.flickr.com/photos/unu-wider> I LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubyrichardson> I Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/UNUWIDER> I Blog<https://www.wider.unu.edu/blog> Website: www.wider.unu.edu<http://www.wider.unu.edu/> United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research Phone number: +358 (0)961599257 Address: Katajanokanlaituri 6 B, FI-00160 Helsinki, Finland Think green - keep it on the screen.