Partner: Center for Global Development (CGD)

Center for Global Development (CGD) works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world’s top decision makers.

They are examining the toll that the spread of Covid-19 is taking on global development—people, systems, and economies—and how governments and international organisations can best respond.

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Social protection and different forms of social assistance

The Covid-19 pandemic led to widespread disruption of livelihoods and loss of income, and exposed and reinforced existing inequalities. In response, almost all countries implemented some form of social protection, […]

Projects
Contributing to better evidence and understanding on social sector spending in developing countries in the wake of the pandemic
Creating high-frequency economic time-series for better policy making where official data is sparse
How countries in different contexts should manage the pandemic
How the international community needs to respond to the pandemic
How the pandemic is affecting the infection fatality rate in low- and middle-income countries
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