A lot is being written just now about the impacts that the Coronavirus pandemic is having and will continue to have on our lives over the coming months. Once the pandemic has passed, however, the sheer scale and nature of this particular global crisis are likely to shift the way we look at social protection, forever. [1] This blog explores three main reasons for this:
1. The sheer need for an urgent scale-up and strengthening of social protection, now! The colossal economic impacts of this pandemic, which is affecting jobs and incomes in both high- and low- and middle-income countries (ILO, 2020; Evans et al, 2020), are leading to unprecedented growth in the number of people in urgent need of income and other forms of support (e.g. continuation of free school meals,...
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