Supporting Families and Children Beyond COVID-19: Social protection in high-income countries

Dominic Richardson, Alessandro Carraro, Victor Cebotari, Anna Gromada and Office of Research - Innocenti Unicef

Innocenti Research Report

Abstract: COVID-19 constitutes the greatest crisis that high-income countries have seen in many generations. While many high-income countries experienced the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, or have had national recessions, the COVID-19 pandemic is much more than that. COVID-19 is a social and economic crisis, sparked by a protracted health crisis.High-income countries have very limited experience of dealing with health crises, having their health and human services stretched beyond capacity, restricting the travel of their populations or having to close workplaces and schools – let alone experience of all of these things combined. These unique conditions create new and serious challenges for the economies and societies of all high-income countries. As these challenges evolve, children – as dependants – are among those at greatest risk of seeing their living standards fall and their personal well-being decline.This new UNICEF Innocenti report explores how the social and economic impact of the pandemic is likely to affect children; the initial government responses to the crisis; and how future public policies could be optimized to better support children.

Keywords: austerity policy; child well-being; COVID-19; ecology; economic crisis; financial systems; health care; high-income countries; policy and planning; social protection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 132
Date: 2020
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