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UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME Mitigating Poverty: Global Estimates of the Impact of Income Support during the Pandemic by Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, George Gray Molina, María Montoya-Aguirre, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez UND P GLOBA L POLICY NETWORK Mitigating Poverty: Global Estimates of the Impact of Income Support during the Pandemic by Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez, George Gray Molina, Maria Montoya-Aguirre and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet. Learn more at or follow at @UNDP. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the United Nations, including UNDP, or the UN Member States. Copyright ? UNDP July 2021 All rights reserved United Nations Development Programme 1 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10075, USA Mitigating Poverty: Global Estimates of the Impact of Income Support during the Pandemic by Johanna Fajardo-Gonzalez (johanna.fajardo-gonzalez@), George Gray Molina (george.gray.molina@), Maria Montoya-Aguirre (maria.montoya-aguirre@) and Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez (eduardo.ortiz.juarez@) 1 Abstract This paper reconstructs the full welfare distributions from household surveys of 160 countries, covering 96.5 percent of the global population, to estimate the pandemic-induced increases in global poverty and provide information on the potential short-term effects of income-support programmes on mitigating such increases. Crucially, the analysis performs a large-scale simulation by combining the welfare distributions with the database of social protection measures of Gentilini et al. (2021) and estimates such effects from 72 actual income-support programmes planned or implemented across 41 countries. Th