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dc.titleResearch Insights: How Well Could Emergency Transfer Programs Protect Informal and Vulnerable Households against Negative Effects of the Covid-19 Lockdowns?
dc.contributor.authorBusso, Matías
dc.contributor.authorCamacho, Juanita
dc.contributor.authorMessina, Julián
dc.contributor.authorMontenegro, Guadalupe
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2020-11-23T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-11-23T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractData on 33 emergency transfer programs implemented across 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries in response to the Covid-19 pandemic shows substantial variation in proposed coverage. Coverages and replacement rates are in general high among the poorest households that are in the first quintile of the earnings distribution, ranging from 54 percent in Ecuador to 100 percent in Brazil and Peru. The second and third quintiles show very different results, with replacement rates falling considerably in all cases except Brazil. For most households in these quintiles, emergency transfers compensated less than 25 percent of labor monetary income.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0002877
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Research-Insights-How-Well-Could-Emergency-Transfer-Programs-Protect-Informal-and-Vulnerable-Households-against-Negative-Effects-of-the-Covid-19-Lockdowns.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Perspectivas-de-investigacion-Cuan-adecuadamente-podrian-proteger-los-programas-de-transferencias-de-emergencia-a-los-hogares-informales-y-vulnerables-contra-los-efectos-negativos-de-los-confinamientos-de-la-COVID-19.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectInformal Labor
dc.subjectTransfer Program
dc.subjectCoronavirus
dc.subjectPandemics
dc.subjectEmergency Management
dc.subjectHousehold Income
dc.subjectReplacement Rate
dc.subjectLockdown
dc.subjectIncome Support
dc.subject.jelcodeI38 - Government Policy • Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
dc.subject.jelcodeO17 - Formal and Informal Sectors • Shadow Economy • Institutional Arrangements
dc.subject.jelcodeO15 - Human Resources • Human Development • Income Distribution • Migration
dc.typeCatalogs and Brochures
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-CB-00459
idb.operationBK-C1102
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