Poverty in Spain and Europe. Effects of COVID-19

The Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB) presents its Annual Report 2020, a year clearly impacted by the pandemic. In fact, the report closes with a very pertinent IEB Report 4/20 "Poverty in Spain and Europe: effects of Covid-19", which includes different analyses of the current situation of poverty in Spain and Europe. The pandemic we are suffering is a burden and has triggered poverty, inequality and social exclusion rates. The 2008 crisis brought us to worrying levels from which we had begun to recover, but Covid-19 has cancelled out this effect in just a few months.

El Instituto de Economía de Barcelona (IEB) presenta su Informe Anual 2020, un año claramente impactado por la pandemia. De hecho, el informe se cierra con un muy pertinente IEB Report 4/20 “La pobreza en España y Europa: efectos del Covid-19”, que recoge diferentes análisis sobre la situación actual de la pobreza en España y Europa. La pandemia que estamos sufriendo supone una losa y ha disparado los índices de pobreza, desigualdad y exclusión social. La crisis del 2008 nos situó en niveles preocupantes de los que nos habíamos empezado a recuperar, pero el Covid-19 ha anulado tal efecto en pocos meses.