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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
卷 142, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105422
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COVID-19; Poverty; Lockdown; Compliance; Work mobility
The study found that work-related mobility in high-poverty regions during lockdown period decreased significantly less compared to other regions, and higher poverty levels accelerated the spread of the virus. The research also suggested the complementary role of social protection measures and physical distancing measures in pandemic response.
Since March 2020, governments have recommended or enacted lockdown policies to curb the spread of COVID-19. Yet, poorer segments of the population cannot afford to stay at home and must continue to work. In this paper, we test whether work-related mobility is effectively influenced by the local intensity of poverty. To do so, we exploit poverty data and Google mobility data for 242 regions of nine Latin American and African countries. We find that the drop in work-related mobility during the first lockdown period was indeed significantly lower in high-poverty regions compared to other regions. We also illustrate how higher poverty has induced a faster spread of the virus. The policy implication is that social protection measures in the form of food or cash trasfers must be complementary to physical distancing measures. Further research must evaluate how such transfers, when implemented, have attenuated the difference between poor and non-poor regions in terms of exposure to the virus. ? 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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