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Efforts to protect the poor during COVID: How five African countries faredThe number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis. The...
The number of people living in poverty around the world is estimated to have increased by half a billion people due to the COVID-19 crisis. The...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that African tax and social-benefit systems are currently ill-equipped to protect households from sudden income losses...
UNU-WIDER has worked for several years in collaboration with sub-Saharan African revenue authorities to facilitate the analysis of digital tax data...
Continued lockdown measures are straining the social contract between citizens and governments. As this column explains, in contexts where there are...