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Pakistan's social protection response to the COVID-19 pandemic : the adequacy of Ehsaas Emergency Cash and the road ahead
Markhof, Yannick - 2020
This Working Paper presents an analysis into the adequacy of Pakistan’s social protection response to the COVID-19 … protection system in Pakistan. It focuses on Ehsaas Emergency Cash (EEC) as the country’s flagship initiative to attenuate the … economic context of the crisis in Pakistan and describes the country’s social protection landscape. Furthermore, the paper …
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Assessing the impact of COVID-19 and related interventions on poverty and economic growth in Pakistan : a structural path analysis
Davies, Stephen; Quershi, Tehseen; Rana, Abdul Wajid; … - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 45 (2023) 4, pp. 2017-2033
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The Philippines’ Social Policy response to Covid-19 : troubles with targeted social assistance
Ramos, Charmaine G. - 2021
This report analyzes the Philippines’ ambitious response to the economic risks and dislocation wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020: a set of targeted income support measures that intended to cover unprecedented shares of the population. It...
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Poverty in the time of COVID : the effect of social assistance
Parekh, Nidhi; Bandiera, Oriana - In: LSE public policy review 1 (2020) 2, pp. 1-11
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Winning or buying hearts and minds? : cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Justino, Patricia - 2019
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper …
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Household labor supply and social protection : evidence from Pakistan's BISP Cash Transfer Program
Ambler, Kate; De Brauw, Alan - 2019
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COVID-19 and labor markets in Southeast Asia : impacts on Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam
Asian Development Bank - 2021
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The gendered dimensions of social protection in the COVID-19 context
O'Donnell, Megan; Buvinić, Mayra; Bourgault, Shelby; … - Center for Global Development <Washington, DC> - 2021
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The impact of social assistance programmes in a pandemic : evidence from Kenya
Strupat, Christoph; Rukundo, Emmanuel Nshakira - 2022
This paper examines whether social protection - in the form of existing social assistance programmes - affects measures of household well-being such as poverty, food security and costly risk-coping behaviour during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using primary data from nationally representative,...
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Zimbabwe's social policy response to Covid-19 : temporary food relief and cash transfers
Chipenda, Clement - Sonderforschungsbereich 1342 "Globale … - 2021
Zimbabwe’s social policy response to Covid-19 unfolded in a context of enduring socioeconomic and political crises. Its main instruments were temporary food relief and cash transfers, though it also included healthcare measures, an economic stimulus package, pension benefits, and “cushioning...
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