Authors: Valentina Barca and Rodolfo Beazley
The economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented use of social protection systems to support affected populations. More than 181 countries have implemented so far more than 870 social protection measures, according to the living paper by Gentilini et al. (2020) [1] .
What is interesting compared to past crisis responses is the large number of these measures that build on existing data, information systems and registration capacity – some of these enabling very swift expansions of caseloads. Among the extensive body of research on ‘Shock Responsive Social Protection’ [2] , we had published a paper in early 2019 with the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (...
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