Kapitalis (Tunisia) published an article stating that the latest study on COVID-19 and developing countries measures the impacts of COVID-19, particularly in terms of recession, poverty, and unemployment. The study is rather conservative in its estimates and minimalist in its explanations. IFPRI provided a study that contradicts the UNDP study. The IFPRI study, 2015 regionalized social accounting matrix for Tunisia: A nexus project SAM states that following a three-month confinement, the growth rate would drop by minus 11.6%, with a temporary loss of 475,000 jobs (unemployment rate falling from 15% to 26%) and poverty that penalizes almost as many people.
