Poor Protection
The Role of Taxes and Social Benefits in the Developing World During Crises
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 November 2025
- ISBN 9780198909422
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 240x163x25 mm
- Weight 699 g
- Language English 652
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Short description:
This book examines the role of social protection and taxation systems in developing countries during times of crises. The main objective of the work is to promote understanding about proper crisis response, and the way social protection and tax systems can be made more sustainable to support countries' paths through and out of economic crises.
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This book examines the role of social protection and taxation systems in developing countries during times of crises. The main objective of the work is to promote understanding about proper crisis response, and the way social protection and tax systems can be made more sustainable to support countries' paths through and out of economic crises. While there is a vast body of literature evaluating social protection programmes in general, few of these focus on episodes of crisis. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the number and scale of social protection programmes increased rapidly around the globe, but many developing countries lacked a systematic approach to social protection and taxation.
Crises have a devastating effect on employment, incomes, and livelihoods. These impacts are more dangerous when people are already in a vulnerable position. This has become very clear during the latest worldwide crises, including the sharp rise in food and fuel prices. Armoured with comprehensive policies and systems for social protection and taxation, developing countries could enable automatic and speedy assistance when crises hit across the entire income distribution. Analogously to the currently standard financial stress testing in anticipation of crises, thorough stress testing of social protection and tax policies is also of crucial importance.
Poor Protection explores to what extent tax-benefit systems can act as automatic stabilizers in a developing country context during crises, and how they can help provide the fiscal space necessary to cushion at least the most detrimental developments in terms of inequality.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Protecting the poor and vulnerable when crises are the New Normal
Strengthening resilience: Investigating the effectiveness of social protection and tax policies in cushioning income and poverty impacts amidst crises in low- and middle-income countries: A scoping review
Part I Performance of tax-benefit systems during crises
The impact of social protection on poverty through normal times and times of crisis: Evidence from Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia
Performance of tax-benefit systems during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa: A comparative perspective
The role of taxes and benefits in protecting household incomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of seven Latin American countries
The cushioning effects of tax-benefit policies in Viet Nam during the COVID-19 pandemic
Part II Income developments and specific policies during COVID-19
The effect of wage subsidies on job retention: Evidence from South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic
The impact of COVID-19 lockdowns and aid packages in Vietnam
Top earnings and inequality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ecuador: Evidence from administrative data
Part III Looking ahead
Social protection floor gaps and pandemic relief: Embracing universalism?
The potential of universal basic income schemes to buffer shocks: Comparing Uganda and Zambia during COVID-19
Targeted versus universal benefits: Poverty-reduction performance in times of crisis
Optimal taxation in crisis times: Simulation results for Zambia
Part IV Summary and policy takeaways
Summary
Discussion of main policy implications
