Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19 : A Real-Time Review of Country Measures (May 15, 2020) (English)

Some key finds from this "living paper" include : Over the past two months, the number of countries that have planned, introduced or adapted social protection measures in response to COVID-19 has quadrupled – and those measures eightfold. Social assistance transfers are the most widely used class of interventions. These non-contributory programs account for 60.1 percent of global response, or 523 measures. Both cash-based and in-kind transfers have...

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Gentilini,Ugo;

Almenfi,Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi;

Dale,Pamela;

Blomquist,John D.;

Palacios,Robert J.;

Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam;

Moreira Da Silva,Vanessa;
Document Date
2020/05/15
Document Type
Working Paper
Report Number
148660
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
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World,
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Other,
Disclosure Date
2020/05/20
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Disclosed
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Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19 : A Real-Time Review of Country Measures (May 15, 2020)
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Gentilini,Ugo; Almenfi,Mohamed Bubaker Alsafi; Dale,Pamela; Blomquist,John D.; Palacios,Robert J.; Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam; Moreira Da Silva,Vanessa.

Social Protection and Jobs Responses to COVID-19 : A Real-Time Review of Country Measures (May 15, 2020) (English). COVID-19 Living Paper Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/793071589982156107

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