Economists do not just debate numbers, they also diverge on letters. Therefore, regarding the economic consequences of Kovid, some predicted a V-shaped recovery – a rapid decline followed by a rapid decline -, while others relied on rather than an L – stagnation long after the collapse. . From now on, many of them agree on a curve in Kashmir: a formidable recovery for some (“/”) with a sudden fall of the first (“|”) and a “(“) for others. Breaks. Clearly, (big) winners and (big) losers. Some figures are sufficient to take the measure: If 8 million French people now benefit from food aid, the fate of 43 French billionaires, against 5.5 million in normal times, has increased by 2% in 2020. An uneven machine about which Esther Duflo, winner of the French Nobel Prize in Economics, is concerned – thus the only name of the “Bank of Sweden Prize in Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, the only prize managed by the Nobel Foundation not by will Was made Swedish industrialist – a great expert in development issues, poverty and inequalities.

Who are the people who suffer the most from the consequences of the epidemic?

We can see the losers clearly. Different social groups do not have the same mortality. In the United States, for example, there are 1.4 times p