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Post COVID-19 recovery: how Latin America should treat its inequalities

Post-COVID recovery: how Latin America should treat its inequalities

Poverty is expected to climb in Latin America. Social assistance will continue to play an important role in mitigating the effects of the economic crisis on living standards of disadvantaged groups. But what about inequality? Could social assistance contribute to addressing high and persistent inequality in the region? Armando Barrientos discussses in this article.

14 Sep 2020
The two faces of income inequality: who’ll be hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic?

The two faces of income inequality: who’ll be hardest hit by the pandemic?

Several pandemics have in the past contributed to the reduction of income inequality. Will this happen this time around?  Is COVID-19 likely to improve the distribution of income?  Diego Sánchez-Ancochea dicusses in this article for the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab.

04 Jun 2020
How would you distribute COVID-19 response funds to poor countries?

How would you distribute COVID-response funds to poor countries?

This contribution to the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab imagines a world in which rich countries agree to provide financial support for LICs and MICs during the crisis and outlines the broad strokes of how much such a hypothetical scheme might cost, how it could be financed, who could fund it, and how the money could be distributed across poor countries.

27 May 2020
COVID-19: Lessons from the past

COVID-19: Lessons from the past

Our societies have seen epidemics and outbreaks from which we have, or we should have, learned. What are those lessons? What does research tell us about the social dynamics of the pandemic and of our responses to it? We discuss these questions with researchers in this specific field – IDS’ Melissa Leach, Hayley MacGregor, Annie Wilkinson and Ian Scoones.

17 Apr 2020
Gender inequality in times of COVID-19 – give women cash

Gender inequality in times of COVID-19 – give women cash

This article, authored by Guy Standing, discusses basic income systems as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly to address the gender-based inequality highlighted in the crisis.

17 Apr 2020
COVID-19 policy responses: what social scientists need us to know

COVID-19: what social scientists need us to know

Our responses to COVID-19 should be informed by all sciences. Jay Van Bavel and Robb Willer present the importance of social and behavioural sciences in helping policy-makers, leaders, and the public better understand and respond to the pandemic.

14 Apr 2020

COVID-19: Inequality is our pre-existing condition

In this article, Dr. Paula Braveman discusses the lessons to be learnt  the cost of social inequality in the face of the current pandemic.

14 Apr 2020

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