COVID-19 as a Disease of Poverty and Inequality. Pandemic Impact on Economic Growth, Changes and Problems in the Current Time

Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.57017/jaes.v17.1(75).03

Author(s):

Katarzyna J. CHOJNACKA Department of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce, Poland

Abstract:

In this research, the author has attempted to systematize the current state of knowledge on selected aspects of poverty and inequality, in light of available analysis and quantitative data, from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. This article is of a polemic nature. Therefore, this text should be treated as a starting point for the empirical research planned by the author during the following months of the research project: SUPB.RN.21.109, Id: 538.

The purpose of this paper is to distinguish the most significant areas where the COVID-19 pandemic initiated change. Due to the importance of the phenomenon, the variability over time, as well as its complex aspect, it would be impossible to discuss the issue comprehensively within a single publication, as highlighted. The motto of the considerations was the words of Gorynia (2020): The coronavirus is unquestionably a phenomenon from the world of uncertainty rather than the world of probability (...) it is a multidimensional phenomenon and as such requires an appropriate approach to its complexity.

How to cite:

Chojnacka, K.J. 2022. COVID-19 as a Disease of Poverty and Inequality. Pandemic Impact on Economic Growth, Changes and Problems in the Current Time. Journal of Applied Economic Sciences, Volume VII, Spring, 1(75): 27 – 34. https://doi.org/10.57017/jaes.v17.1(75).03

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