Network on Welfare & Policy in Latin American and the Caribbean
Network on Welfare & Policy in Latin American and the Caribbean
This paper aims to assess the role of tax-benefit policies in mitigating the effects of COVID-19 on the distribution of household disposable income in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. We exploit data from phone surveys collected during the pandemic combined with …
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This paper proposes a strategy to measure economic insecurity in countries in the Global South. It builds a ‘Multidimensional Economic Insecurity Index’ (MEII) that combines four indicators of economic vulnerability that cause stress and anxiety: unexpected economic shocks, unprotected employment …
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