Efeito da pandemia de COVID-19 sobre a pobreza e desigualdade de renda no Brasil no ano de 2020

Abstract

This paper analyzes the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty and income inequality in Brazil in 2020, as well as the contributions of compensatory policies, in particular the Auxílio Emergencial 2020, with the purpose of fade the recessive effects of the pandemic. The database used is the PNAD COVID19, from May to November 2020, as well is used the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke indices to decompose poverty and observe its dynamics in the light of the effects of the economic crisis and, at the same time, of the Auxílio Emergencial. The main conclusion is that the government’s emergency financial assistance was essential to protect a portion of the population who is vulnerable to the recessive effects of the pandemic, in addition to having corrected income inequalities, even if momentary, between men and women and white and black people.