Jordi Sevilla discusses Minimum Subsistence Income - a new non-contributory Social Security benefit in Spain with two objectives: to reduce extreme poverty and to assist the labour integration of people at risk of exclusion.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the pace of science around the world. But not all scientists have experienced the same level of disruption. Kyle R. Myers discusses the lessons learned from long-standing gender disparities in the workforce.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.