Social protection and jobs responses to COVID-19 : a real-time review of country measures
AUTHOR(S)
Ugo Gentilini; Mohamed Almenfi; Pamela Dale
Some key finds from this "living paper" include : As of April 23, 2020, a
total of 151 countries (18 more since last week) have planned,
introduced or adapted 684 social protection measures in response to
COVID-19 (Coronavirus). This is a ten-fold increase in measures since
the first edition of this living paper (March 20). New countries include
Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Azerbaijan, Bahamas,
Belarus, Bermuda, Brunei, Chad, Grenada, Libya, Montserrat, Nigeria,
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Seychelles, St Maarten, and UAE.
Social assistance transfers are the most widely used class of
interventions (60 percent of global responses, or 412 measures). These
are complemented by significant action in social insurance and labor
market-related measures (supply-side measures). Among safety nets, cash
transfer programs remain the most widely used safety net intervention by
governments. Overall, cash transfers include 222
COVID-related measures representing one-third of total
COVID-related social protection programs.
Ugo Gentilini; Mohamed Almenfi; Pamela Dale December 2020 Social protection and jobs responses to COVID-19 : a real-time review of country measures. , pp. 578.