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Gender and Race in the Spotlight during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of the Emergency Benefit on Poverty and Extreme Poverty in Brazil

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  • Luiza Nassif Pires
  • Luísa Cardoso
  • Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira

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Research Scholar Luiza Nassif-Pires, Luísa Cardoso, and Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira analyze the importance of the "emergency benefit" (Auxílio Emergencial) in containing the increase in poverty and extreme poverty in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. They find the emergency benefit mitigated the loss of income, brought the poverty rate to historically low levels, and reduced inequality: poverty gaps in terms of gender and (to a lesser degree) race narrowed in 2020. However, their simulations show that a planned reduction in transfer levels for 2021 will result in the emergency benefit providing substantially less social protection against loss of income than its more robust 2020 version.

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  • Luiza Nassif Pires & Luísa Cardoso & Ana Luíza Matos de Oliveira, 2021. "Gender and Race in the Spotlight during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Impact of the Emergency Benefit on Poverty and Extreme Poverty in Brazil," Economics Policy Note Archive 21-2, Levy Economics Institute.
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    1. Paola Profeta, 0. "Gender Equality and Public Policy during COVID-19," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo, vol. 66(4), pages 365-375.
    2. Paola Profeta, 2020. "Gender Equality and Public Policy," CESifo Forum, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 21(04), pages 37-40, November.
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    1. Yeutseyeva, Sasha & Deguilhem, Thibaud, 2022. "Race, Gender and Poverty: Evidence from Brazilian Data," MPRA Paper 114411, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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