Locally-Led Simulation Analyses: Covid-19 Impacts and Responses for Equity in Developing Countries

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global catastrophe with radical impacts triggering policy responses worldwide.1 Literature on the topic has been unanimous on the deleterious effects of this crisis on the global and national economies, and on poverty, particularly in low-income countries (Miguel and Mobarak, 2022). With varying degrees in terms of the size and nature of packages, countries have put in place measures to mitigate some of the likely devastating impacts of the pandemic. To avoid critical waste of time and resources, simultaneous efforts needed to be invested in assessing the impacts and effectiveness of these interventions, including through the development of country-adapted analytical tools that can produce periodic updates for policy adjustments © 2022, Savard and Tiberti