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The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil

By: International Monetary Fund

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The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil

By: International Monetary Fund

We document the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market focusing on employment, wages and hours worked using the nationally representative household surveys PNAD-Continua and PNAD COVID. Sectors most susceptible to the shock because they are more contact-intensive and less teleworkable, such as construction, domestic services and hospitality, suffered large job losses and reductions in hours. Given low income workers experienced the largest decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage points, respectively, due to the immediate shock. The government’s broad based, temporary Emergency Aid transfer program more than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre-COVID baseline fell. At a cost of around 4 percent of GDP in 2020 such support is not fiscally sustainable beyond the short-term and ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not pick up sufficiently fast in 2021.

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Jordan

Climate Policy Diagnostic

By: Suphachol Suphachalasai,Hasan Dudu,Diala Al Masri,Fabiana Machado,Junko Mochizuki,Karlygash Zhunussova

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Climate Policy Diagnostic

By: Suphachol Suphachalasai,Hasan Dudu,Diala Al Masri,Fabiana Machado,Junko Mochizuki,Karlygash Zhunussova

This technical assistance conducts a climate policy diagnostic for Jordan, covering climate adaptation and mitigation policy, as well as enabling institutions. Jordan faces acute challenges of climate-food-water nexus—innovative climate policy approaches are key, given limited fiscal space. While Jordan needs to strengthen the investment climate for climate investment through streamlining existing policies and alleviating critical barriers, making social policy more shock-responsive and strengthening risk management can go a long way in building resilience. As climate-related risks globally intensify, the government is encouraged to move toward a risk-informed policy and financing strategy.

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Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment and Green Public Financial Management

By: Bryn Battersby,Diala Al Masri,Robert N Clifton,Ed Hearne,Murray Petrie,Jad Mazahreh

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Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment and Green Public Financial Management

By: Bryn Battersby,Diala Al Masri,Robert N Clifton,Ed Hearne,Murray Petrie,Jad Mazahreh

The assistance assessed how climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation responses are addressed in the public investment cycle using the Climate Module of the Public Investment Management Assessment (C-PIMA). The assistance also evaluated the scope to advance Green Public Financial Management (PFM) practices, drawing on the IMF’s new Green PFM framework. Jordan was found to performs well in the climate-aware planning and coordination institutions of the C-PIMA, but some gaps were identified in implementation aspects of the framework, and there were several areas where climate could be better integrated in the PFM system.

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