The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview

The review article provides an overview of the literature on the interplay between populism and the pandemic. On the demand side, we highlight: anti-science attitudes are an important element of populist, anti-establishment sentiments; conspiracy theories are closely associated with populist scepticism of science and expertise; partisanship and media diet tend to shape behaviours and beliefs towards COVID-19 and mitigation measures.

Tim Soutphommasane

Tim Soutphommasane is Chief Diversity Officer at the University of Oxford and Professor of Practice in Human Rights and Political Theory. He is Senior Research Fellow at Balliol College and also holds a professorial appointment at the University of Sydney.

Counting and Accounting: Measuring the Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Multidimensional Poverty Reduction

In this paper we propose indicators of impact and spending effectiveness of fiscal interventions for multidimensional poverty reduction. We bring together CEQ’s fiscal incidence methodology with OPHI’s multidimensional poverty methodology, using an MPI with the ?0 structure as the metric for evaluation. The effectiveness indicators in the multidimensional case need to simultaneously consider the best allocation of money across dimensions (which deprivations to lift?) and across households (to whom should they be lifted?).
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