Did the Covid-19 pandemic create poverty in France?

Célia Bouchet (1, 2) , Nicolas Duvoux (3)

1 CRIS - Centre de recherche sur les inégalités sociales (Sciences Po, CNRS)
2 LIEPP - Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d'évaluation des politiques publiques (Sciences Po)
3 Cresppa-LabToP - Laboratoire Théories du politique : pouvoir et relations sociales

The French Statistical Institute estimates that the monetary poverty rate was stable between 2019 and 2020, while several scientific and associative contributions note significant socioeconomic difficulties among some groups during the Covid­19 pandemic. Using a secondary analysis of nine quantitative and qualitative surveys collected by the National Council for Policies to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion (CNLE) in 2021, we show that several social groups were exposed to precariousness of varying format, chronology and mechanisms. We develop implications for poverty measures, welfare inequalities, non­governmental solidarities and temporalities of poverty policies.

Keywords: poverty; Covid-19; social policy; inequality; not-for-profits; community

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

Célia Bouchet, Nicolas Duvoux. Did the Covid-19 pandemic create poverty in France?. LIEPP Policy Brief n°65 bis, 2023. ⟨hal-04102226⟩