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.
Movement and quarantine restrictions in Malaysia led to a “new normal” for business and consumers through digitization and e-commerce. Andrew Kam, Rashila Ramli and Sity Daud look into the role of e-commerce as an inclusive recovery opportunity.
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.
In this interview with the Inclusive Policy Lab, Marcelo Medeiros discusses inequality in Brazil, and reforms in taxation and other sectors to tackle the same.