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Social protection and basic services
The COVID-19 crisis impacts the world’s poorest and most vulnerable hardest, with significant intergenerational implications for poor and low-income families. As demonstrated during the 2008 financial crisis, countries with strong social protection systems and basic services suffered the least and recovered the fastest. People everywhere must have access to social services and social protection, jobs, business and livelihoods must be protected.
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SDGs X Covid-19 – Social Protection
We are seeing positive deviances, where countries that have been striving toward the Sustainable Development Goals are standing strong in the light of COVID-19. Case of social protection in Columbia.
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Temporary Basic Income (TBI) Simulator
This simulator shows the TBI amount needed to lift the vulnerable out of poverty for 132 countries, depending on policy choices.
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South Africa – Macroeconomic Impact Prediction
GDP will take at least five years to return to 2019 levels. Poverty, Unemployment and Inequality widens but recovers steadily. Female-headed households, persons with lower levels of education and the Informal Sector hit hardest.
